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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Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.
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Quare religio pedibus subiecta vicissimopteritur, nos exaequat victoria caelo.
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Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.
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When you snatch little pieces of other people's lives and try to palm them off as your own, that's more disgusting than anything. Robin Williams is a huge thief. Denis Leary is a huge thief. His whole stand-up career is based on Bill Hicks, a brilliant guy who died years ago.
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I go to Japan every November on vacation, and the one thing I never return home without is yuba, which is the thin skin that forms atop boiling soy milk. You skim it off and either eat it fresh or dry it.
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I wouldn't be doing this if it wasn't fun. It's just a whole different thing these days.
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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.
