Christopher Bollen Quotes

The death drive is parasitic. It runs off of other drives, leeching off of them.

Christopher Bollen

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• I don't have a wallet. I carry my driver's license and a couple of credit cards in my phone. That, and a money clip.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Money
  • Couple
  • Credit

• I think what 'The Monster' means to me is I find it really hard - like a lot of other people in the world - to really be OK in my own skin. It was a message to myself saying, 'It's OK that you're not perfect.' I'm gonna learn to love myself and accept myself, even though I'm a little crazy.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • World
  • Think

• All writers want to know that someone is reading their work, taking them seriously. It provides a kind of moral support.

  

  Felice Picano
  • Work
  • Support
  • Reading

• Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Thoughts
  • Negative
  • Internal

• It's nice not to be too boring.

  

  Barry Pepper
  • Nice
  • Boring
  • Too

• Let me make a solemn pledge before all of you, before the whole world and before God, that I will devote all my energy and all I possess in my power to serve the people of Nigeria and humanity.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • People
  • World
  • God

• Well, I'm not a critic, I'm just a worker. So, I'm always grateful for anything the critics say - good or bad.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Grateful

• Moonlight is sculpture.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Nature
  • Sculpture
  • Moonlight

• Here is the dirty little secret about anti-abortion violence: It works.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Violence
  • Secret
  • Dirty

• I'm terrible about people wanting to take pictures with me. I'm a giant baby about it. They treat you like a cartoon. There's nothing you can do except make light of it. That's if I'm in the mood – sometimes I get superbummed.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Light
  • Baby
  • Mood

• Making distinctions is part of learning. So is making mistakes.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Learning
  • Mistakes
  • Making

• The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Important
  • Way
  • Positive

• Anything that needs to be accessed is within me. Even if it's in a circumstance that seems outrageous, I can still just go back to the basic human experience and it's all there.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Experience
  • Me
  • Human

• It's always discouraging when you don't have things go your way. They are frustrated just like the rest of us.

  

  Ed Belfour
  • You
  • Rest
  • Always

• When I first started out in the industry, I was 12 or whatever, and I wanted to be on something so bad, and I didn't know what I was going to be on. At the time, I was in school, and I was working on drama and theatrical stuff, so I never thought that I'd end up going to comedy.

  

  Zendaya
  • Up
  • Time
  • School

• It's really exciting to see all those people that exist in numbers online translate into tickets and then into faces, handshakes, pictures, stories.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • See
  • Numbers

• If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Lost
  • Alone
  • Effort

• After all the sacrifice in Afghanistan and Iraq, why do we find ourselves in a more dangerous world?

  

  Rand Paul
  • World
  • Why
  • Find

• As to my success here I cannot say much as yet: the Indians seem generally kind, and well-disposed towards me, and are mostly very attentive to my instructions, and seem willing to be taught further.

  

  David Brainerd
  • Success

• I was obsessed with romance. When I was in high school, I saw 'Doctor Zhivago' every day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater.

  

  John Hughes
  • School
  • High

• But the thing about bad guys is that they have the biggest bosomed blond, they have great clothes and cars, and get great death scenes.

  

  Eric Roberts
  • Great
  • Bad
  • Death

• I couldn't get Him out of my head. Still can't. I spent three solid days thinking about Him. The more He bothered me, the less I coul forget Him. And the more I learned about Him, the less I wanted to leave Him.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Thinking
  • Forget
  • Three

• God is God, but he has various names in different languages, and each strand of monotheistic religion has multiple ways of describing the godhead.

  

  Jay Parini
  • God
  • Different

• The death drive is parasitic. It runs off of other drives, leeching off of them.

  

  Christopher Bollen
  • Running
  • Parasitic