Christopher Bollen Quotes

There are certain moments where artwork might seem like it's part of someone's career - if you really know the art world - , but I did my best to prevent that overlap.

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• I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • School
  • Power
  • Sun

• We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Up
  • Green

• Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Women
  • Stand
  • Lib

• When I'm filming, it's in the contract - 'No kiteboarding' - ha ha.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Contract
  • Filming

• When a man wrote a political screed against the IRS and flew into its building, he was deemed mentally ill, even though it was clearly a political act. There's a double standard, which is: If his name is Muhammad, it's automatically terrorism.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Man
  • Political
  • Building

• I don't think you can beat your audience over the head with hard-hitting cartoons day after day after day.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Think
  • Day
  • Audience

• As far as the U.S. economy is concerned, I always believe that the U.S. economy is solidly based, not only in a material sense, but more importantly, the United States has the strength of scientific and technological talent, and managerial expertise.

  

  Wen Jiabao
  • Believe
  • Talent
  • Strength

• We have rules that no longer are relevant to the world we're living in. Our regulatory system can't keep up.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Up
  • World
  • Rules

• We have Sunday morning breakfast before church. I don't do the dishes, but I do cook. I'm the griller.

  

  Vance McAllister
  • Church
  • Morning
  • Sunday

• I read good. I was an English major.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • English
  • Read

• 'Job Killer.' Those are the two words you are most likely to hear uttered by most American CEOs when confronted with proposals to enact family-friendly work policies.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Work
  • Family
  • Job

• I have gotten to travel the world and experience all these incredible things thanks to my career.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • World
  • Experience
  • Career

• Like the East Side tenement, our house was seldom without the sound of music or laughter or questions being asked or stories being told.

  

  Harpo Marx
  • Music
  • House
  • Laughter

• 'And you actually were cuddly,' said Carn. 'No offense, but you were spunky.' 'If that's your word for 'bratty little asshole,' said Dink mildly.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Asshole

• A private ball this was called...but Lord! my dear Sir, I believe I saw half the world!

  

  Frances Burney
  • World
  • Believe

• I don't want to be conducting Mahler with my head stuffed full of 10 million notes from other composers.

  

  Lorin Maazel

• My life is like a music-hall,Where, in the impotence of rage,Chained by enchantment to my stall,I see myself upon the stageDance to amuse a music-hall.

  

  Arthur Symons
  • Life
  • Music

• It is folly to anticipate evils, and madness to create imaginary ones.

  

  John Adams

• When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Control
  • Patience

• I mean, you just go down the line, and with any of these issues, it's about rich people staying rich. And using poverty as a weapon against people. That's what we see every day. And I'm not an economist, so I can't speak to the nuances of it, but just common sense tells me the whole thing is corrupt.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • People
  • Mean
  • Poverty

• I always make the point that teachers are people too, and that they don't just want to be in front of kids all day and have children be their only feedback loop.

  

  Dana Goldstein
  • People
  • Children
  • Kids

• We need to be very well aware of the fact that China and Russia are using technology to attack us, just as ISIS is using technology to recruit those who would murder American citizens.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • American
  • Technology
  • China

• I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Want
  • Me
  • Myself

• There are certain moments where artwork might seem like it's part of someone's career - if you really know the art world - , but I did my best to prevent that overlap.

  

  Christopher Bollen
  • World
  • Art
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