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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I spend a lot of time in L.A., and when it rains there you get the entire rainfall for the year in two days, raindrops the size of mangoes. And in Barcelona, the Mediterranean storms come up from the sea, thunder and lightning; it's like the end of the world.
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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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Kids have been let down by adults - we've tried to give them too much, we've tried not to impose discipline. We've tried to make their lives easier and, in doing so, we've taken something away from them. Kids like boundaries, they also like to be pushed, need to learn what failure is all about, need guidance.
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It's not that I ever sat down and outlined a trilogy, but I always have a sense of what size an idea is when I start it.
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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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Life is great; football is better.
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I will fight the fight I need to fight to win.
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Many people believe that memory works like a recording device. You just record the information, then you call it up and play it back when you want to answer questions or identify images. But decades of work in psychology has shown that this just isn't true. Our memories are constructive. They're reconstructive. Memory works a little bit more like a Wikipedia page: You can go in there and change it, but so can other people.
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Things to do today: 1) Breathe in. 2) Breathe out.
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Do not read so much, look about you and think of what you see there.
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I don't use photographs because photographs don't give me the kind of information I need.
