Frank Moore Colby Quotes
Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.
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I had no expectations of white people at all.
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All of my friends, I consider childhood friends because we met when I was probably 13, and I'm still friends with them today. It's really nice that I have that core group.
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I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.
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I dislike society because conversation exhausts my brain more than silent thought - again, I cannot hold my water long enough for a prolonged conversation.
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Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast evolving culture.
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One rose says more than the dozen.
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I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
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My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.
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Money is not everything. We don't need billions and trillions of dollars.
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I don't drink tea or coffee. I'm like a child: I like fruit juices and sodas and creamy hot chocolate.
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I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
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I can't even imagine life without music!
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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
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It gets boring to me when people talk about clothing brands or what boat they're going to buy next summer.
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There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.
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Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.
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I think our work as movement leaders isn't just about our own visibility but rather how do we make the whole visible. How do we not just fight for our individual selves but fight for everybody?
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The repetition, the process, hitting it whether you are inspired or not, deadlines: all those things are art school ideas. That training just slid into the music part of my life.
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Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.
