Wilkie Collins Quotes
We neither know nor judge ourselves; others may judge, but cannot know us. God alone judges and knows us.
Quotes to Explore
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Boys are so much less mature than girls as it is.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.
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If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself and wipe myself off the face of the earth.
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If I don't like someone and I start reading their stuff, it seems like my brain will just automatically start criticizing everything that's there. It's really hard to read a book without having all this outside information telling you what to think about it.
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The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good?
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I was born in Colorado and grew up in Pennsylvania with family in Texas and Oklahoma.
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Do stuff that scares you on a regular basis. I think it's good for the body and for the mind.
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I don't tend to do much with my lips. My lips are naturally very pink, so if I add any more colour, it looks like I've been smacked in the mouth!
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My first year, people were interested in me because I was new. Then the press started to come.
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The creative act requires both will and intelligence. Breaking things is easy. You only need a hammer.
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Each must the other take as sign, short sign To stop the whirlwind, balk the elements.
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That should probably be written: no !@#$%^&*:@!semicolon
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Sometimes I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unlovable in it, for all of it is part of me.
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After I quote unquote came out as a Republican, one of my dearest gay friends said to me, 'You've got to go on a T.V. show and tell everyone you like gay people.' I was like, 'Why?' He was like, 'Because you're a Republican.' I was like, 'I'm sorry who's stereotyping who?'
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Nothing is my guiltiest pleasure. I love it. I love doing it. I love planning to do it, I love loafing and pottering and chilling and daydreaming.
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'Precious' is so not P.C. What I learned from doing the film is that even though I am black, I'm prejudiced. I'm prejudiced against people who are darker than me.
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Parody is homage gone sour.
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Some makeup companies have really good recycling policies, and it's worth finding out whether your favourites are among them. With MAC, for instance, you can take any of your old makeup containers into its shops, and the sweetest deal is that, once you've racked up six containers, you get a free lipstick or lip gloss.
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I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life.
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Get up and say Elijah Muhammad is wrong when he says white are the devil? They have to prove they are not the devil.
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If you can work and if you're offered a job and you don't take it, you cannot continue to claim benefits. It will be extremely tough.
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It takes mystical insight to see the beauty and innocence in each other, even when that is not what we are showing to the world. That is why God is needed in intimate relationships, to move us beyond the perceptions that can so often poison love.
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We neither know nor judge ourselves; others may judge, but cannot know us. God alone judges and knows us.
