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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We have millions of users around the globe who do amazing things with our technology every day.
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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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That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.
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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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Live more and more in the Present, which is ever beautiful and stretches away beyond the limits of the past and the future.
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With .NET once an API is published it's available to all programming languages at the same time.
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The concept of Shwopping is so clever, I think. The idea is that every time someone goes shopping, they can take an unwanted item of clothing and pop it in the recycling bin in their M&S store for Oxfam.
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Children are ready to learn when they are ready to learn, not necessarily when their parents are ready to teach them.
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Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.
