Colin Falconer (Colin Bowles) Quotes
An enemy never seems quite as formidable when he is whimpering in chains, so that you forget how he looked sneering at you when you were miserable
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Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas.
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In writing, I search for believability, simplicity and emotional impact.
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I deserve attention not because of any talent, but just because of who I am.
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'The HoneyLine' is my web site and TV segments that were birthed out of the stark reality that we all need a few people to help navigate this life.
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I still have an old painting the Colonel gave me. It was the first time the Colonel had been back to the Hilton since Elvis had passed away.
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I'm guilty of eating Magnum bars before I go to sleep at night.
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What I wear is constantly evolving. I am really big on comfortable clothes. I love soft, loose-fitting clothing that has some edge or something new/fresh to it.
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The addition of nuts in salad... I always find to be beneficial.
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I love wushu a lot and I would love to see it included in future Olympic Games.
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In lean times, you get plenty of sleep, and you're not flying around everywhere.
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I love living around black people. Home is home. We suffer under racism and the physical deprivations that come with that, but beneath that, we form cultures and traditions that are beautiful.
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Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
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A truth discovered always seems so plain and simple that we wonder why the discovery was so long delayed.
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Men gossip for just as long and about the same subjects as women, but tend to talk more about themselves.
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We are becoming able to see the pursuit of external power for what it is and the futility of trying to escape the pain of powerlessness by changing the world. When we look inward, not outward, we can dismantle the parts of our personalities that have controlled us for so long - such as anger, jealousy, vindictiveness, superiority, inferiority.
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My cerebral cortex, the gray matter that MIT neuroscientist Steven Pinker likens to 'a large sheet of two-dimensional tissue that has been wadded up to fit inside the spherical skull,' is riddled instead of whole.
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When I land in a country and they ask for 'occupation,' I always just put 'artist.' I think that covers all of it.
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People call me Wayne Wonder and it also goes back to football because I could do mad skills with the ball and people would marvel and wonder how I could do it.
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For eight months, from January to August of 2007, I filmed with Anna Wintour and her team at 'Vogue' as they created the September 2007 issue of the magazine.
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How do we get more politicians to move from 'fixing' the system to reforming the system? The obvious answer is to either improve the quality of public services or reduce the public's dependence on them. Both approaches are necessary.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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I've been lucky to ride 10 different horses at the Olympics. I'd like to think that of all of them, Big Ben - who was inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame - would still be competitive in the contemporary sport.
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Cupid's not the only one with an arrow," I scowled
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An enemy never seems quite as formidable when he is whimpering in chains, so that you forget how he looked sneering at you when you were miserable
