Christopher Bollen Quotes
We lost so many talented artists and writers from the generations before ours that we're really lacking older figureheads.
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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Schools across India do not have teachers, libraries, playing grounds and even toilets. I do not want to see empty classrooms, empty libraries. I do not want to see cattle grazing on fields meant to be cricket or football grounds.
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I think that horror, in general, is fairly popular. It's definitely popular in film. There's just not a lot of good horror on TV, so whenever there is good horror on TV, people rush to it.
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My face always looks bored or depressed. It's not an accurate impression.
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Aside from rabid Islamists, no one who wishes to be taken seriously can publicly say anything bad about the old Jews of Europe without sounding like reactionary troglodytes.
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On so many levels, acting in film and TV is so much the sum of its parts, and somewhere in there, there's an alchemical thing that makes something happen or not - that makes something connect or not. Now, of course you want to make work that people see, but the enjoyment I get out of acting is playing characters.
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Social media is simply a tool that facilitates actions.
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Acknowledgment of torture is not accountability for it.
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At Sussex University, I developed a system called WinLocX to help with the process of translating software into foreign languages.
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What free-market economists are not telling us is that the politics they want to get rid of are none other than those of democracy itself. When they say we need to insulate economic policies from politics, they are in effect advocating the castration of democracy.
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Communication services need interoperability to succeed - and Loopt is the first such service since SMS that is available across all major U.S. wireless carriers.
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I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
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Every action needs to be prompted by a motive. To know and to will are two operations of the human mind. Discerning, judging, deliberating are acts of the human mind.
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A word must become a friend or you will not understand it. Perhaps you do well to be cool and detached when you are seeking information, but I remind you of the wife who complained, 'When I ask John if he loves me, he thinks I am asking for information'.
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Now that I have found someone I'm feeling more alone Than I ever have before.
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Education to perfect gentlemanship, to human excellence, liberal education consists in reminding oneself of human excellence, of human greatness.
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When you do your part, life just unfolds in ways that are so much better than you would have dreamed up on your own.
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A Passage to India. It is my favourite movie.
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Who wouldn't want to date Salman?
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And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.
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Who is the best rapper ever? I'll probably have to say Eminem. I would definitely say Eminem. He came from a whole another culture, literally. Mastered it, outsold everybody and he did every kind of record imaginable. He could take any topic and make a song out of it. I haven't seen any artist do that yet.
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We lost so many talented artists and writers from the generations before ours that we're really lacking older figureheads.
