John Churton Collins Quotes
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I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive. I don't think it matters what the idea is, almost. You need great execution.
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I hate jeans for no reason.
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Do not hide behind utopian logic which says that until we have the perfect security environment, nuclear disarmament cannot proceed. This is old-think. This is the mentality of the Cold War era. We must face the realities of the 21st century. The Conference on Disarmament can be a driving force for building a safer world and a better future.
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Yeah, well my name is Bai Ling. That means white spirit, and I really feel like sometimes I'm not existing.
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Probably Romania and China and Russia. I think they're all working really hard to beat us right now.
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Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.
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My coach and I thought I could swim a 57.3 if I executed the perfect race, but I did even better than that.
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'Perfect' is about a set-up that looks perfect from the outside - beautiful country house, beautiful wife and mother, everything where it should be - and the deep fissures that, in fact, lie beneath that. 'Perfect' was partly a response to the shock of my first book, 'The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry,' being a success.
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In order to be Miss Anybody you had to have excellent grades, and I had terrible grades because of my dyslexia.
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When I'm playing my best, like I was at the U.S. Open, I feel on top of the match and able to do exactly what I want. There are other times when you're not in control, but that is tennis and you have momentum changes in every single match.
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The Swedish language combines the strong manhood of the German with the delicate beauty of the Italian.
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I want to do transformational work to actually fix the world.
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Guess what, I'm the opposite of a role model!
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By being an athlete, I have uncovered so many other ways to express my beauty. Being a strong, fearless woman makes me feel beautiful. I love the way I look and feel when I am two hours into my training and my skin is glistening with sweat and my clothes are drenched because I have given it all I've got.
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From the subtle to the extreme, our culture and our values are under unrelenting attack from the media.
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The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation.
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I like Rufus Wainwright a whole lot. He makes me wanna be even more musical.
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A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.
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Since I was a young girl in the punk scene, almost all of my friends have been gay or lesbian, so for me, it's an obvious answer when it comes to whether or not gay people should be recognized as equal.
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Sports were a way for me to get comfortable with my body. I learned to appreciate everything I could still do.
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Everyday I am pushing the hamstring more in practice. I should be fine by Saturday.
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We've all done things we shouldn't, it's just I did stuff at college, when nobody knew about it, so I'm not a saint. … I wasted time doing self-destructive things but it didn't work. I found out you can only dance on so many tabletops. I got that all out of my system and now I'm healthy and I'm grounded.
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I love horror movies. I mean, who doesn't like a good horror movie every once in a while? It's fun to get scared.
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Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.
