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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All drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self-esteem. They’re no good at all. But I’m not going to go around preaching against them.
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In our case, finding a Lucy is unique. No one will ever find another Lucy. You can't order one from a biological supply house. It's a unique discovery, a unique specimen.
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No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.
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Garfield: 'Old boy! Do you think my name will have a place in human history?' Rockwell: 'Yes, a grand one, but a grander one in human hearts. Old fellow, you mustn’t talk in that way. You have a great work yet to perform.' Garfield: 'No. My work is done.'
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Give the lady what she wants!
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One of the tough things about being an actor, probably the hardest thing, is getting your foot in the door, and my father handled that for me at a very early age.
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Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
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Anxiety is the normality of our age.
