Wilkie Collins Quotes
The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!
Quotes to Explore
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This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a graceless lump of flesh and fear in a remote desert where nearly everything that I can see or touch is designed to hurt me.
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For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
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If I don't get healthy food, my staff cooks for me.
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It is a kind of ego booster, the way Egypt's winning the 1973 war, in the first stages, was an uplift. But I did not find when I spoke to people that the war in Iraq was seen as the major issue in American-Arab relations.
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Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people.
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I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!
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Hard courts are very negative for the body. I know the sport is a business and creating these courts is easier than clay or grass, but I am 100 per cent sure it is wrong.
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I don't think there's any difference in my passion than when I was a young coach. I hope somebody in some way realizes I could be an asset, but we'll just wait and see.
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Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.
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I'm a man without a corporation.
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That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.
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My father was very disappointed by war and fighting. And he thought language could help us out of cycles of revenge and animosity. And so, as a journalist, he always found himself asking lots of questions and trying to gather information. He was always very clear to underscore the fact that Jewish people and Arab people were brother and sister.
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I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.
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In 1989, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that minority set-aside programs in municipal contracts were unconstitutional. The court wondered if there were proof that people of color even want to receive municipal contracts.
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It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.
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That really is my trademark. Day to day, week in, week out. If something happens and the crowd roars, I shut up.
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I find the education I got from living in Derby and being streetwise and knowing the people that I know, the lessons that I had to learn growing up, have set me in good stead for this kind of working life.
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The feeling of handing over the masters is you've done you're part and you're excited it's complete,
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When I didn't have friends, I had books.
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Among the extremely diverse books lumped together as 'mysteries,' I shall try to judge each fairly according to the best standards of the type which the author intended to produce.
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You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.
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He smiled, and it made his dimples come out. “I think I’m more Batman,” he said. “You know, what with all the bats and nighttime activities. And Batman is much cooler.” “Geek.” His smile widened. “You say the nicest things. Haven’t you heard? Geeks run the world now.” -BLACK DAWN
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The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!
