Christopher Bollen Quotes
My strength is character. I'm pretty good at building walking-talking humans with brains like beehives.
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Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.
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That's the gift that a mother can give, to make everyone feel like they are the special one.
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The flesh is the surface of the unknown.
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A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.
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The optimal use of natural resources can be made only if there is a well-thought-out policy framework for their exploitation towards a particular end use.
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In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.
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In the past, I used to tell everyone that I have never had a boyfriend, because I was still quite young. However, I cannot say the same thing now.
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There certainly are some good aspects to Common Core.
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I'm not the sort of writer who can walk into a party and take a look around, see who's sleeping with whom and go home and write a novel about society. It's not the way I work.
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I met a number of young, striving, enterprising people in cities like Aligarh and Hubli. But the mental landscape of these towns is out of sync with their reality. Many of these towns are hellholes.
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Money is not important to me. What makes me feel successful is making the people I love happy.
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Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.
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The poet existed among the cave men; he will exist among men of the atomic age, for he is an inherent part of man. Even religions have been born from the need for poetry, which is a spiritual need, and it is through the grace of poetry that the divine spark lives forever in the human flint.
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My siblings and I were friends with the boys who would become our stepbrothers - we grew up on the same street. I feel very special to have these amazing people in my life and if we hadn't all moved into this big house together I think I would have missed out on that, because we would have drifted apart.
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Unblemish'd let me live, or die unknown; O grant an honest fame, or grant me none!
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I only work with people I like.
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I'd say my happiest moment as an actress came when I learned I'd won the Look Magazine Best Supporting Actress Award for 1956 in The Killing.
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The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.
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These are tough games to play. We shared the puck and we wanted everyone to get a chance to score. Tough games to play in. We want close games. That is why we train so hard. We want to show our fans some even games.
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Over the years, I have been approached about making Ramona into a cartoon or movie, but I was afraid that no one could really capture the spunky character of Ramona.
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I think some combined pressure could go a long way, could establish the fact that this legislation did pass and we mean business by it. We mean to have it enforced, we mean to have it become effective.
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I've always loved 'Alice,' and I've always loved Lewis Carroll. I love his kind of tone and his intelligence.
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I don't read books. I read 'On the Road' in high school, and that was awesome, so I guess that's my favorite book. 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' even though I didn't read it, that's the greatest story. SparkNotes came in when I was in high school, and that was the greatest invention.
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My strength is character. I'm pretty good at building walking-talking humans with brains like beehives.
