Chris Borland Quotes
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There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
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I've been in this business for 40 years - you do a show, and you don't know what's going to come of it.
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I don't wear a lot of color because I live in New York, and I'm sort of color-blind, so colors don't match to me a lot of the times, and it makes me anxious. So I'll always defer back to black.
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People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.
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When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.
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I love Jonathan Richman - I love a lot of his music, and the thing I really like about him is his attitude. He seems very happy, and the way he performs is like, 'Don't worry, everybody, just get into it. I'm just having fun; I like when you guys are having fun.'
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The differences between a tart, a pie and a quiche are a blur.
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It's up to you to be responsible for how you feel if you're not happy. Your happiness lies in your hands. You can't rely on a man to make you happy or complete you. That starts with you.
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Listen, I'm a sweet guy. I'm just intense at work. I have nothing but the end result in mind. My entire career has been like that.
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The rising costs of higher education coupled with the stress of paying student loans are putting increasing pressure on students.
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Live well. Sing out, sing loud, and sing often. And God bless the child that's got a song.
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I think that crime is a good vehicle for looking at society in general because the nature of the crime novel means that you draw on a wide group of social possibilities.
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I don't feel like a pop star. I like being able to live my life the same as my mates. I don't get recognised much.
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I'm someone who believes in 'live and let live,' and that applies to everything.
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Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is a form of service journalism. To be successful, I think it has to be a combination of a good story, it has to be funny, and it also needs to be packed with useful information.
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It is individuals who must be encouraged to undertake the unprecedented - and unprecedentedly profitable - effort to prevent the annihilation of the human race.
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One of the ironies of being a professional writer is that, if you are even moderately successful, the very traits that let you succeed as a writer are not much help when the time comes to head out as 'The Author.'
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My god is narrative filmmaking.
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The marketplace measurement in politics is something called an election. It's a pretty good barometer - it's transparent, it's numerical, it's objective. It gives you a pretty good measure of what your customers think of you. And in 2006 and 2008, the marketplace was telling the Republicans, We prefer the products and services of your competitors. And so when you're losing market share, you step back and say, What can we do differently?
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Sometimes you just have to trust people.
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If we don't enforce visa laws, we basically have open borders.
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Football is inherently dangerous, and that will never change.
