Billy Collins Quotes
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Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
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There definitely will be flying cars, but whether there'll be flying cars for most people to use, it'll probably take a long time to straighten everything out, all the rules and hassles. It'll take a while to figure out how to keep people from crashing into each other.
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I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.
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I'm not so sure I believe in dopplegangers. I just prefer to be Dane DeHaan.
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I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
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We have gone through everything as a nation - partition, dictatorship, and even anarchy.
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A bad hair day for me is when it gets flat and greasy.
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The mind is a monkey, hopping around from thought to thought, image to image. Rarely do more than a few seconds go by in which the mind can remain single-pointed, empty.
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I told my agent which women I aspire to have a career like: Frances McDormand, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney and Emma Thompson - character actresses who have something to say. I also said that I loved Madeline Kahn and Jessica Lange.
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I'm a strong proponent of green tech for anyone who can afford it, having spent the last 40 years working toward achieving a smaller and smaller eco-impact for myself.
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We live on a planet that is amazing, beautiful, and full of wonder but not protected from powerful destructive forces of nature. We are capable of doing wonderful and selfless things but also self-absorbed and harmful things. This is the world we live in.
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The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.
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If you can believe it, I had no intentions of being a wrestler.
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No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
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Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.
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The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them do not.
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The launch of a space shuttle can still make you weep with amazement and wonder, if you happen to be watching it.
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Ego gets you inches but it doesn't get you impact.
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I make the pussy purr with The stroke of my hand They know they gettin' it from me They know just where to go When they need their lovin man They know I do it for free They give me cat scratch fever
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Beware the wrath of a patient adversary.
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It is very likely that many firms spend more on advertising than, for their own best interests, they should.
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I'd like to win an Oscar.
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I'm an only child, and I can take all the attention you manage to pile on me.
