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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The American public deserves answers. Her record is so thin we don't know anything about her.
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We have this huge discourse on family in this country, but no one deconstructs it the same way. People talk about "the American family." The right wing has this thing - Focus on the Family. What the hell is that? I don't want to just discuss the issues - I want family to be a real part of the character of the novels I write, and I don't like to write things that feel like issue books.
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Eternal love is a myth, but we make our myths, and we love them to death.
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My first dream as a child was to become a pilot. My second dream was to become an astronomer, and I pursued in parallel efforts and studies in these two areas.
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Soberly and with the dignity that befits the United States Congress.
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Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.
