Billy Collins Quotes
The disappointing second novel is measured against the brilliant first novel - often no novel lives up to the first. Literary improvement seems like an unfair expectation.
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
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I would just die if some little girl saw me jump into bed with someone in the movies, and then she did it and got AIDS and died.
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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.
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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.
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A man is what he thinks about all day long.
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Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.
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With bikes, it is absolutely the case that you will get what you pay for. Invest in quality so it will endure wear and tear.
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The win-win situation is the basis for America's entire business world. Instead of wasting our time attempting to defeat each other, let's find a way that will make both of us gain and go home satisfied. In Israel, it doesn't work because the only meaning of victory is seeing your rival's body lying trampled on the floor.
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There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.
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Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.
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On certain, delicate subjects, bringing in outsiders to talk about values is pertinent because pupils listen to them more attentively.
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If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
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When people see what I have now, they have no idea of where I came from and how I didn't have anything growing up.
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I'm a normal guy. I'm not a chef.
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The real crime of Hosni Mubarak is that he ruled for 30 years and left behind an Egypt where the Muslim Brotherhood is the single strongest player.
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The real reason your pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing at you.
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We're all about pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps, et cetera - I think that's a harmful mythology, that the choices that we make and the things that we do in our lives are not connected to anything else. So I'd like to help to debunk that.
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The disappointing second novel is measured against the brilliant first novel - often no novel lives up to the first. Literary improvement seems like an unfair expectation.
