Bob Colacello Quotes
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I don't just say I'm conservative. I have boot leather to my gospel.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.
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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
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Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.
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One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.
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I've tried to show in my most recent book, the 'Irresistible Fairytale', that in order to talk about any genre, particularly what we call simple genre - a myth, a legend, an anecdote, a tall tale, and so on - we really have to understand something about the origin of stories all together.
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I don't think God cares a whole lot about the outcome. He cares about the people involved, but I don't think he's a big football fan.
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I do like the research part of writing, I must admit.
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Falling in love, romance, matters of the heart - when you fall in love, on some biochemical level you know there is a chance it won't work out. It's ingrained in us that if you take such an enormous risk on someone with your heart that it might not pay off. I gamble all my chips and I might actually lose everything.
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There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
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When I was little, people like Talking Heads were on the radio. There was something geeky yet groundbreaking about them.
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In a competitive industry, only paranoid incumbents - those constantly striving for betterment - have any hope of surviving.
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The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That's that. That's easy.
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It's all about sound. It's that simple.
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Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.
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I first learned the power of trust in the CIA. There is no question that when I joined the Agency as a covert operations officer, it was still run along the 'old boys' network' model.
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Although our 'gentle air' cannot improve the way hate and envy look, it does seem not to encourage firmness and decision. All is compromise; caution and refinement are everywhere. Everything has to 'make a good impression' - whether or not it is any good: the impression is the main thing.
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It is better to go down in infamy than to never go down at all.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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All girls hit that phase where they like the bad boy. I grew out of that really young and I have a wonderful guy in my life who's not a bad boy at all. I like the satiric, consistent nice guy.
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After so many years of whispery, DIY vocals, there's this new generation of voices that are really starting to burst through the seams.
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Envy is a surefire party killer.