Alex Colville Quotes
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
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A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.
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There's monsters in all of us, but there's also vulnerability.
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I have a cousin called Flirta D who was big in the grime world, which made me really cool at school. 'Flirta D's your cousin?' 'Yeah, buddy.' 'He must be a millionaire!'
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It's a wild thing, that people have the ability to help each other by just relating to one another.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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My grandparents don't really listen to pop music, and they only speak Spanish and only listen to Spanish music.
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When you're 25, it's a little bit easier to be daring, especially if you are a pop star, because eccentric behavior is expected from you.
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I think voters want somebody who understands their problems. You're right that they don't expect the president to fix everything. When he's wrestling with Congress and Wall Street and the rest of the world, they hope he'll be looking at things from their vantage point.
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If you're not cheating, you're not trying.
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The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
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If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.
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It has always seemed a cruel joke to me that the very word 'stutter' is difficult for many stutterers to pronounce. It is onomatopoeic, an imitation of the halting, repetitive sound made by people with this speech dysfunction.
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I expected it to be overwhelming and all-encompassing, but having a kid brings you into the world in a whole different way.
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For the first time in 6,000 years of human history, we can have peer-to-peer exchange where trust is not a problem anymore. And it's through the technology that underlies bitcoin. It's called the block chain.
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In my older age, I've learned to take things slower, because I used to be that total-fall-in-love-after-a-day guy.
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The necessity for leaders to possess optimism and ego serves to answer the age-old question: Are leaders born or are they made? They are born. A leader is born with an optimistic disposition or she is not. If she is not, then no amount of 'optimism training' is going to make her view the world in an overwhelmingly positive, opportunistic light.
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He cannot kick with his left foot, he cannot head a ball, he cannot tackle and he doesn't score many goals. Apart from that he's all right.
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You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view, as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain might be lifted, but to see it, you have to toil from month to month through its labyrinths.
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Half a man's life is devoted to what he calls improvements, yet the original had some quality which is lost in the process.
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Anxiety is the normality of our age.
