Ellar Coltrane Quotes
It's beautiful to have people look me in the eyes and actually treat me like a human.
Quotes to Explore
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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Belgian chocolate is my weakness. I like over 72 percent cacao, which shows you how much of a dark chocolate snob I am.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
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Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan understand that government does not create jobs. Entrepreneurs do.
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One thing I detest most about the financial press is the lack of accountability. All sorts of nonsense is said without penalty.
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I am someone who isn't always perfect.
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Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
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Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.
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If you are ambitious to talk well, you must be as much as possible in the society of well-bred, cultured people. If you seclude yourself, though you are a college graduate, you will be a poor converser.
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Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.
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As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx, the motherland of hip hop.
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The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry.
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We need another revolution in the Arab world. We need an education revolution. If there's one thing we need to focus on, it's redesigning our educational systems.
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Terrorism doesn't have a border. Terrorists attack Mumbai, Peshawar, and also Paris.
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Pop music should be about young people.
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The people I grew up around, almost all of them had been born and raised in the South. And, you know, they didn't always go to church, but they lived their lives as if God were watching everything they did.
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Going on the ship felt like 100 years or one day. Timeless. Beautiful vertigo. It will continue to show up in my work.
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It's beautiful to have people look me in the eyes and actually treat me like a human.
