Christopher Bollen Quotes
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When in doubt, wear a suit. Look at male politicians: you see them in a suit, and they look fine. But if you see a picture of them on the weekend or on vacation, there's a good chance they look terrible and unstylish.
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We haven't really gotten the credit for what we have done.
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If you're going to stay in the Olympics, you've got to be entertaining and get sponsorship.
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Since Reagan there has been this tradition, which has become a cliche, of promising morning in America, this fake optimism, we're the best, the city on the hill. In fact the great American task is self-scrutiny.
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The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
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Non mancano pretesti quando si vuole.
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I was always making decisions and they were easier decisions because I had control of the game, I had control of the ball. As a coach you sort of put the ball in other player's hands and let them make decisions for you. But I still get a kick out of winning basketball games and that's what I'm in this for.
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That which brought me into the capacity I now stand in, was the Petition and Advice given me by you, who, in reference to the ancient Constitution, did draw me here to accept the place of Protector. There is not a man living can say I sought it, no not a man, nor woman, treading upon English ground.
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The Hudson's Bay Company, before their misfortunes in the late war, had been much more fortunate than the Royal African Company.
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Stocks can be dynamite.
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I just always wanted to stay busy.
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A single moment spent in a business meeting or at a pub is more than enough to reveal the basic human truth that we are all faking it most of the time. We congratulate a rival on a triumph when actually we are choking on spite. We are cordial and attentive to crashing bores.
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I've long believed that if you understand how conversational styles work, you can make adjustments in conversations to get what you want in your relationships.
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The principle that a central bank, charged with controlling inflation, should be independent from the government is unassailable. It may also be true that it's easier for the central bank to guard its independence from political pressure when it mainly holds government securities.
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Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
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That's where it all started for me, in clubs and bars, and I don't ever wanna outgrow that.
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The Anarchists set off World War I with a gunshot in Sarajevo - but they faded away. It wasn't that the police drove them out of business. The ideology had nowhere to go except into permanent negativity.
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I have a huge rib cage, which is why I can hold a note out until I'm blue in the face... because I have such a big lung capacity.
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The hardest part about being a kid is knowing you have got your whole life ahead of you.
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I've been building a fiction in part around the Marfa poem since my brief residency there, which has kept it from receding into the past.
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I'm ready to win.
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My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity.
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When I was auditioning, I didn't know it was 'Daredevil.' Everything was secret. They're secret agents. They wouldn't give you any clues. I was a big fan of the show, and I think it helped me, once I got the part, to really understand the world that they live in. It helped me during shooting.
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I've never even done a residency.
