Chris Borland Quotes
Football is an elective. It's a game. It's make-believe. And to think that people have brain damage from some made-up game.
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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
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On average, our corps members stay in the classroom for eight years. But again, given the systemic nature of educational inequity, we know it is vital that some of our alumni take their experience outside the classroom.
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To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.
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The best time to release a film is on a festive date like Divali or Eid, or at a time when there are no big films three to four weeks before or after.
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Judge Sotomayor is a liberal judicial activist of the first order who thinks her own personal political agenda is more important that the law as written.
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I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.
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One guy that I wish was here right now, Ted Williams, helped me so much, our long talks, not about hitting but about fishing, one of Ted's passions, and I wish he was here today to share this with me because I owe so much to Ted Williams.
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No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
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I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.
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Southeast Asia was home for much of my childhood, but I moved to Hawaii when I was in high school.
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I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.
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I'm much more optimistic about this next generation because this is the first global generation.
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The media is an ally when it comes to showing the truth about terrorist groups. Attacking the media will not produce a more compliant citizenry. It will produce a more alienated, suspicious and disenfranchised public, one more likely to chafe under a government's attempts at control, all to the benefit of terrorist groups.
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I want to make sure that that future that we're creating is one that is the best it can be for people around the world, and also one that includes the full range of our talent and our skills - and, you know, gender and ethnicity, geography - to solving the world's problems.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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People tell me I'm like the country version of Justin Timberlake. Actually, the other day someone told me I was an unathletic version of Justin Timberlake, and I was like, 'I'll take that.'
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If you're a Supreme Court justice, the American people have elevated you to one of the highest offices in the land out of the goodness of their heart and out of deference to your legal wisdom. You get a lifetime appointment, limitless prestige, a great office, and what I have to assume is a very comfortable chair.
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I love each of my kids in unique ways and try to meet their different needs so they can thrive and be their personal best.
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Football is an elective. It's a game. It's make-believe. And to think that people have brain damage from some made-up game.
