William Collins Quotes
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When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
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I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.
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Wild fish are under threat of extinction because they're hunted to feed us. Yet land animals that we farm are under no threat of extinction. Shifting from hunting fish to farming fish - where the farmers have the incentive to keep their stocks healthy - could do a tremendous amount of good for wild fish.
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I do constantly get to change the way I look, which is sort of an old-school idea of acting.
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I feel that everything I do in my life I can do in a shorter time than most men can. It's the quality, not the quantity.
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Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.
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The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
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My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
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I think it's a shame when the arts have to suffer because of corporate greed. People will always strive to make film, and the only important thing is that we keep trying to make ourselves heard and keep making our films, no matter what the climate is.
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The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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Europe is especially vulnerable to terrorists who may hide among the refugees pouring across its borders.
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I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.
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I am a writer of the textbooks of scientology.
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Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
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The best V-Day gift I've ever received was a personalized photo collage.
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My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.
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The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone.
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As an old man...looking back on one's life, it's one of the things that strikes you most forcibly-that the only thing that's taught one anything is suffering. Not success, not happiness, not anything like that. The only thing that really teaches one what life's about...is suffering, affliction.
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I would far rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evil.
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To really understand what love is, you've kinda got to dig down deeper than just how you feel at the moment.
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We have to use every tool at our disposal and that's why we're trialing a badger cull. We need healthy wildlife living alongside healthy cattle. Only if we work to eradicate the reservoir of TB in our badgers, will we have the strong and prosperous dairy industry the public wishes to see.
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How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, / By all their country's wishes blest!
