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

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

  

  Rand Paul
  • World
  • Why
  • Find

• When I was 7, my dad asked his friend to teach me. I played my first tournament competition when I was 8. I remember I shot around 125.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Remember
  • Me
  • Dad

• Emotions are charismatic. Focused emotions are very charismatic. To lead people with charisma, you need to take charge of and focus your emotions.

  

  Nick Morgan
  • Focus
  • Emotions
  • Charisma

• I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.

  

  Charles Kettering
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• We thought for the longest time we might have a chance to run the table because we're such nice guys and centrist party, etcetera, but not getting into the debates really sort of foreclosed that option.

  

  William Weld
  • Guy
  • Running
  • Nice

• I have my own peculiar yardstick for measuring a man: Does he have the courage to cry in a moment of grief? Does he have the compassion not to hunt an animal? In his relationship with a woman, is he gentle? Real manliness is nurtured in kindness and gentleness, which I associate with intelligence, comprehension, tolerance, justice, education, and high morality. If only men realized how easy it is to open a woman's heart with kindness, and how many women close their hearts to the assaults of the Don Juans.

  

  Sofia Villani Scicolone
  • Real
  • Heart
  • Animal

• Two fish in a tank, one says to the other - you drive I'll man the guns.

  

  Tommy Cooper
  • Gun
  • Fishes
  • Tanks

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

  

  Christopher Bollen
  • Running
  • Parasitic