Chris Borland Quotes
Obviously, not the biggest guy in stature. Straight-line speed wasn't my forte either. But I play very fast because I know the game. I take proper angles and know all my assignments.
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It's for scientists to lay out the data and lay out what they think, and then it's for the public to make up its own mind. We don't live in a priesthood where some small group imposes its views on other people - that's not the way that science works, and it's not the way a democratic society should work.
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An American worker should not expect his pay to be cut because somebody comes to this country illegally and is willing to work for less than he or she should be paid.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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We do not have the idea that all children are valuable parts of society. We only have the idea that our own children are.
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Never count on the crowd to take care of you.
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Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
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Events tend to recur in cycles.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
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There are some circumstances in which the First Amendment interest comes up against another interest that is really important and in which we have to make a decision in a particular case as to which is more important.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
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When my children say, 'In the future, Mummy, will things get better or worse for humanity?' I say: 'Who knows, since Amy Winehouse died. It's all in the air now. Eat your broccoli.'
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I've trained my people in mentoring entrepreneurs and made myself obsolete.
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You never know where your influences are going to come from, or where you're going to find your inspiration.
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That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.
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I think I was a decent actor, but it took a lot of work for me to make a choice on how to read a line.
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Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.
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A lot of what I write is very personal.
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I've been in the government bureaucracy, I've practiced law, I've done a lot of different things.
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I have suggested that behind almost all myth lies the mono-plot of the game of hide-and-seek.
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Obviously, not the biggest guy in stature. Straight-line speed wasn't my forte either. But I play very fast because I know the game. I take proper angles and know all my assignments.
