Alex Colville Quotes
I don't use photographs because photographs don't give me the kind of information I need.
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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You may be pulling from different influences because of different things that are going on in your life, different people that are around you and more experiences to pull from.
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A lot of people look at playing overseas as a step down from the NBA. And, yes it is a step down from the NBA money-wise, but there is just as good of talent overseas as in the NBA. Not better talent.
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When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.
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I like to think of myself as very loyal, and I love everyone I surround myself with, whether they're friends or girlfriends or whatever.
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There's a Washington standard of casually putting things off the record. It's really gone too far. I don't know an easy way to turn it back.
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I have lots of fans, they are mostly under the age of 12, boys and girls.
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Our best comes out when we have honest discussions.
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I grew up in L.A., so I'm a huge Lakers fan and Kobe fan.
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Either you are a good Virgo or a crazy Virgo! The good Virgo side of me is educating and raising the children - being there for them.
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My last book, 'The Language of Flowers,' I wrote completely on naptime, when my little kids were asleep.
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Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly.
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One of the difficulties of a job in the, quote, 'real world' is you don't really get time to shut yourself off in a room and think.
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Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.
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Stumbling is not falling.
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I learned how to play mandolin for 'A Mighty Wind!'
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When you were a volunteer for the Bush-Cheney campaign, you came in the morning; you had a supervisor who gave you a list of calls to make and a time to do it in.
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God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.
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There are a couple people who have complained on other teams about some of the things that Pittsburgh players have done. Some of that goes in the category of gamesmanship. Some of that goes to the fact that we need to be vigilant as a league to make sure that players aren't unnecessarily and inappropriately hurt.
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We cannot hope to effectively counter extremism if we just focus on schools, universities and prisons: we need to take this online as well.
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What made it possible for me to exercise freedom of choice also made it impossible to know the future. Conversely, now that I know the future, I would never act contrary to that future. ... Those who've read the Book of Ages never admit to it.
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I don't use photographs because photographs don't give me the kind of information I need.
