Christopher Bollen Quotes

I have to say I do read partly for escapism. Why can't I escape and learn something?

Christopher Bollen

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• The most I ever ate? In one sitting? Maybe four big plates of fried chicken, biscuits, chitlins, gravy. Then dessert. Apple pie, sweet potato pie. My mother cooked that stuff, good Southern food, and when I was 300 pounds, I never missed a meal.

  

  Bruce Smith
  • Good
  • Mother
  • Food

• I had an agenda. It was a very smooth transition.

  

  Frank Press

• The educator shall help the young to educate themselves in opposition to the age.

  

  Georg Brandes
  • Help
  • Age

• War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. It degrades and stupefies with the sense that you are not responsible, that 'tis not yours to think and reason why, but to do and die,' like the hundred thousand others doomed like yourself. War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.

  

  Alexander Berkman
  • Why
  • War
  • True

• The light in the North is constantly a thrill for me.

  

  Wanda Koop
  • Light
  • Thrill

• If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Body
  • Something
  • Dangerous

• Scales played in the correct musical way are very exciting and rewarding.

  

  James Galway

• In my opinion, terrorism is a question which is not a short- term problem for all of us. It is a long-term fight. And NATO can play, and will play, a very crucial role in this struggle.

  

  Aleksander Kwasniewski
  • Long
  • Question
  • Opinion

• To try curing someone of a 'vice,' of what is the deepest thing he has, is to attack his very being, and this is indeed how he himself understands it, since he will never forgive you for wanting him to destroy himself in your way and not his.

  

  Emil Cioran

• I definitely prefer to be in a band. There's too many solo people, and bands are suffering. There's too many great bands that have split up because somebody's got an ego, and then he goes solo.

  

  Liam Gallagher Oasis
  • Suffering
  • Ego
  • Prefer

• The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Years
  • Meaning
  • Beauties

• The notion that you do not negotiate with terrorists is not the history of humanity or of the world.

  

  Juan Manuel Santos
  • History
  • Terrorists
  • Negotiate

• Praise is a contradiction of pride. Pride says 'looks at me,' but praise longs for people to see Jesus.

  

  Matt Redman
  • People
  • Jesus
  • Pride

• I would like to see an agreement that recognizes that we live on the same planet and that some interests, such as human rights, must be universal and that all religions must be respected.

  

  Ninian Smart
  • Respect
  • Religions
  • Human Rights

• I think that you have to bear in mind that music is about escape, and it's not unreasonable to think the music business would be based around escapism.

  

  Peter Hook New Order
  • Music
  • Business
  • Escape

• I developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust, I stood up to it, and that became my personality.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Problem
  • Authority
  • Developed

• If I were as good at praying as I am at not praying I'd be really holy.

  

  Mark Hart Crowded House
  • Praying
  • Holy

• Little things are indeed little, but to be faithful in little things is a great thing.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Little Things
  • Great Thing

• I have to say I do read partly for escapism. Why can't I escape and learn something?

  

  Christopher Bollen
  • Escapism