Christopher Bollen Quotes

I'm really much better at asking questions than answering them, since asking questions is like a constant deflection of oneself.

Christopher Bollen

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• Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Marriage
  • Moral
  • Morality

• The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Nice
  • Criticism
  • Anger

• You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination.

  

  Maimonides
  • World
  • Reality
  • Imagination

• The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • Truth
  • Simple
  • Said

• The magic of landing my first role on Broadway went 'poof' in a matter of a few weeks.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Magic
  • First
  • Broadway

• Change is the one thing we can be sure of.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • Change
  • Sure
  • One Thing

• At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Life
  • Age
  • Understanding

• The whole voiceover world is new and different to me and quite challenging.

  

  Jack Coleman
  • World
  • Different
  • Me

• They're trying to kill me before I'm dead. I come to Quebec to spend some time with my family and they say I'm dead.

  

  Pat Burns
  • Time
  • Family
  • Dead

• But I just loved looking at the clothes of the '70s.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Loved
  • Clothes
  • Looking

• Every performer can get better. It's not about staying with what God gave you and doing nothing with it for the rest of your life.

  

  Damian McGinty
  • Life
  • God
  • Rest

• I think it's hilarious that you would give an endorsement deal to someone who you've heard their lyrics a million times and you thought it was cool. And then they said something a little messed up and you take the endorsement deal away.

  

  Lamorne Morris
  • Up
  • Think
  • Cool

• It's a long road to the Derby, but I think he's got the capabilities to do it, ... He's never done anything that would make us second guess him, and hopefully we can keep on going.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Long
  • Done
  • Road

• Vitali Klitschko doesn't get enough credit for how intelligent he fights, because he knows when to throw at the target and when to throw through the target.

  

  Larry Merchant
  • Fight
  • Intelligent
  • Credit

• A team wins with the elimination of mistakes and with people who want to win and can't stand losing.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • People
  • Team
  • Winning

• If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Up
  • Different
  • Film

• John Kerry, windsurfing dilettante.

  

  Eleanor Clift
  • John Kerry
  • Windsurfing
  • Dilettante

• What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.... And people flock around the poet and say: 'Sing again soon' - that is, 'May new sufferings torment your soul but your lips be fashioned as before, for the cry would only frighten us, but the music, that is blissful.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Soul

• Be passionate about the culture and the business, and remain positive, because it inspires others.

  

  Barry Libert
  • Business
  • Culture
  • Inspires

• My life had gone right; it had gone exactly as it needed to in order to bring me here.

  

  Beth Harbison
  • My Life
  • Need
  • Bring

• I'm a great believer in fate. I think things happen in spite of, and despite, yourself.

  

  Randolph Scott
  • Great
  • Yourself
  • Fate

• Seating themselves on the greensward, they eat while the corks fly and there is talk, laughter and merriment, and perfect freedom, for the universe is their drawing room and the sun their lamp. Besides, they have appetite, Nature's special gift, which lends to such a meal a vivacity unknown indoors, however beautiful the surroundings.

  

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
  • Beautiful
  • Food
  • Perfect

• I'm really much better at asking questions than answering them, since asking questions is like a constant deflection of oneself.

  

  Christopher Bollen
  • Questions
  • Asking
  • Oneself