Alex Colville Quotes
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
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I've always really liked the rhythm element of songs.
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Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.
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The older I get, the more I realize the importance of maintaining an even temperament - not getting too emotional, focusing on the task at hand. You don't want to make a business deal based on your emotions.
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.
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I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
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Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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What I perceive, is above all justice, where everyone has the same law.
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Truth is stranger than nonfiction. And life is too interesting to be left to journalists. People have stories, but journalists have 'takes,' and it's their takes that usually win out when the stories are too complicated or, as happens, not complicated enough.
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However we can spread love and progression, we've got to do it.
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Change or be changed, right? And what we mean by that is that climate change, if we don't change course, if we don't change our political and economic system, is going to change everything about our physical world.
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I love working with women.
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Nothing is more enjoyable for me than when I'm watching a movie or a TV show and there's that sense that anything can happen. It is the most fun feeling in the world.
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Many environmental battles are won by delaying a destructive project long enough to change the conversation - to allow new economic, political and social dynamics to emerge.
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Hungarian communists were the most talented. They convinced everybody that reforming the communist party was better than making a new party.
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I don't have a steady relationship. That's something that women in politics deal with. For some reason, men in politics seem to have a larger charisma, and women drop around their feet. I haven't noticed that so much for me.
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The bike that I've been riding is a Big Ripper. It' an SE Racing 29" bike that Famous [Stars & Straps] did a collaboration with and Travis [Barker] gave to me. So that's the bike that I cruise around on and bunny-hop on.
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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
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Wall Street was an extension of Scarface.
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We constantly abuse and defend a woman's prerogative to change her mind.
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The woman sees, I suppose, and the man does not.
