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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When I see my picture in the papers, I imagine that people think I'm a lot more serious than I am. They probably think I'm pretty miserable.
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Does the e-mail say it's about 'enlargement' - that might be spam.
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I think the next little bit of excitement is flying. I hope I am not too old to take it up seriously, nor too stupid about machines to qualify as a commercial pilot. I do not feel like spending the rest of my life writing books that no one will read. It is not as though I wanted to write them.
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It used to be that the only ones with access to cutting-edge technology were top government labs, big companies and the ultra-rich. It was simply too expensive for the rest of us to afford.
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A tiger never loses sleep over the opinion of sheep.
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How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, / By all their country's wishes blest!
