Christopher Bollen Quotes

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• What I get on a yoga mat, and from a yoga teacher, has been more beneficial onstage than any other workshop I've ever done.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Done
  • Teacher
  • Yoga

• No one has done what Saddam Hussein has done, or is thinking of doing. He is producing weapons of mass destruction, and he is qualitatively and quantitatively different from other dictators.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Done

• Don't just eat McDonald's, get something a bit better. Eat a salad. That's what fashion is. It's something that is a bit better.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Fashion
  • Bits
  • Salad

• So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being, there cannot be any answer to the question: What is Truth?

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Truth
  • Human being
  • Priest

• Newspapers should be read for the study of facts. They should not be allowed to kill the habit of independent thinking.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Study
  • Habit
  • Kill

• Making night hideous.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Night
  • Hideous

• I'm questioning it. We're trying to get a lot of money for health and education and I'm wondering... You look at these gangs, and I look back at Prohibition. When we didn't allow alcohol, what did we have? We had gangs. We had big gangs. It's something that needs to be discussed a little more. It's an economic issue and a violence issue.

  

  Michael Douglas
  • Money
  • Education
  • Prohibition

• When character is lost, rules and punishments cannot take its place.

  

  Paul Crouch
  • Character
  • Rules
  • Punishments

• It's the quiet, humble guy that's not saying anything. That's the really dangerous one.

  

  Carlos Condit
  • Humble
  • Dangerous
  • Quiet

• The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.

  

  George William Curtis
  • Hand
  • Rose
  • Fragrance

• In Isaiah’s description of the downfall of Babylon, the city so famed for its astrologers, we find mention of Hobhre Shamayim,[344] that is, dividers of the heavens, astrologers who divide the heavens into houses for the convenience of their prognostications. The same persons are then described as Chozim bakkokhabhim, star-gazers, those who study the stars for the purpose of taking horoscopes.

  

  G. H. Pember
  • Description
  • Downfall
  • Babylon

• You could be attached to merely a description of a plant or a flower. Or a narrative of an event. Or rage at injustice. Isaiah and the other Hebrew prophets, in their rage, were being altogether attached - not at all detached, although as I think of the word "detachment," I also think of a sheet of paper, loose from its notebook, fluttering around somewhere in the wind trying to find its home again.

  

  Gerald Stern
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Home

• Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • World
  • Dreamer
  • Infinity

• There is great exhilaration in breaking one of these things. ... Ramanujan gives no hints, no proof of his formulas, so everything you do you feel is your own.[About verifying Ramanujan's equations in a newly found manuscript.]

  

  George Andrews
  • Science
  • Found
  • Equations

• I feel that I'm solid at description.

  

  Christopher Bollen
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