Colin Chapman Quotes
Adding power makes you faster on the straights. Subtracting weight makes you faster everywhere.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!
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Prayer is man's greatest power!
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
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Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.
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My impression of Americans from the beginning is of the best, and I have never since had cause to alter my mind. They are a kind, sympathetic race of people and naturally proud of their country.
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
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I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.
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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
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Freedom is popular. Bring it on.
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One of the reasons I wanted to do a show about Nashville in Nashville was because when I lived here, the hardest thing to go out and hear was country music. Country was taking place inside the studio and it was an export.
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People question what I thought of Oxford. Students used to talk about the 'Oxford bubble' because the place can make you feel cut off from the rest of the world. I would forget there were places like London that were not centred round libraries and essays.
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Gonna pull in the shutters on this heart of mineRoll up the carpets and pull in the blindsAnd retreat to the chambers that I left behindIn hopes there still may be love left to findStill may be love left to find.
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Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.
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Let them revere nothing but religion, morality and liberty.
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Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
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In all superstition wise men follow fools.
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All I ever really work for is to be a really good engineer, a good producer, a good executive, good in the world of Beats. That's power to me.
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There is no power outside of man. Man has created God out of fear. So the problem is fear and not God.
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Adding power makes you faster on the straights. Subtracting weight makes you faster everywhere.
