La'el Collins Quotes
Anybody who knows me knows I'm passionate about American football. I gave this game everything I had. In college, that's what I looked to do. Everything. Everything for so long, and all you hear growing up is that hard work pays off, hard work pays off, hard work pays off.
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Comedy's really subjective, you know; that's why it's so hard.
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If this be treason, make the most of it!
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I think wine is such a big universe that it's kind of like food - it's intimidating to a lot of people, myself included.
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Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
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Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.
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I ran for Congress in 2012 because I had had enough. Enough of career politicians, enough of political gamesmanship, and enough of the lack of leadership in Washington.
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The old bastions of the post-communist regime collapsed before my very eyes. The monsters who had kept Ukraine in a criminal state left the stage.
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Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.
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The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.
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I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.
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Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
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Their chief residence was Bagdad, where they remained until the eleventh century, an age fatal in Oriental history, from the disasters of which the Princes of the Captivity were not exempt.
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I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.
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In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.
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I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don't understand how, or we wouldn't do it. But we're parents. So somehow we're damaging you, and I want you to know that early. So just ignore me when I go to that part of my parenting.'
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.
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Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
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Free and open expression coupled with visionary leadership generally encourages good decision-making.
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Inspiration is indispensable to my work, but it is hard to come by. It is there or it is not; it is a gift of the gods.
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In 'Who was Lucifer and how did he become the Devil?' (2007)
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I love boxing. I like to see the strategizing. Watching the warriors go to work. I like that struggle, going out there and fighting.
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At that time, we were in charge. We didn't ask. We just did. We just did what was in our heart.
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Anybody who knows me knows I'm passionate about American football. I gave this game everything I had. In college, that's what I looked to do. Everything. Everything for so long, and all you hear growing up is that hard work pays off, hard work pays off, hard work pays off.
