Colin Falconer (Colin Bowles) Quotes
Anyone who gives a lot of money to the poor must have robbed them first . . . poverty is only the result of the workers not getting proper reward for their labor.
Quotes to Explore
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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It's very interesting, the dynamics of popularity. When you do something all the time, you don't worry about whether it's trendy or not.
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We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.
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I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.
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Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
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I love cooking. It's one of my favorite things to do. To share my parents' recipes that I grew up with is just something very special to me.
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I love things on the decline because that's really the natural progression of our lives. We're born, we're feisty for the first couple of years, and then the inevitable decline begins.
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It's human nature that we come in our own flavours, and it doesn't make any sense to write a monochromatic or monocultural story unless you're doing something extremely small - a locked room-style story.
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You tax Mexico? The president of the United States is going to tax Mexico to get a wall for the United States of America? I'm pointing out the absurdity of a lot of these comments.
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A thousand woodpeckers flew in through the window and settled themselves on Pinocchio's nose.
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I've been to the Hall of Fame many times, in grade school and high school. I had field trips to the Hall of Fame and taking tours of it. I just never thought about that one day I possibly might be in it. I think it'd be great.
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I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
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Copyright term extension has a simple but compelling enticement: it is very much in America's economic interests.
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Christ could be born a thousand times in Bethlehem – but all in vain until He is born in me.
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You laughed for the marrow in their bones that was not yet ready for laughter; And you wept for their eyes that yet were dry. Your voice fathered their thoughts and their understanding. Your voice mothered their words and their breath.
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Ironically, while many of us spend hours every day using small mobile devices to increase our productivity and efficiency, interacting with these objects, even for short periods of time, might do just the opposite, reducing our assertiveness and undermining our productivity.
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Women in the service put themselves in harms way to protect us and our Nation from threats at home and abroad. The least we can do is ensure they are protected when facing a horrible tragedy.
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I swallowed down all the words, until they knotted up in my throat, and now I'm choking on I love you's and please don't go's.
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Eve Ensler is a hero of mine. She's been working for the rights of women for a long time.
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Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.
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Anyone who gives a lot of money to the poor must have robbed them first . . . poverty is only the result of the workers not getting proper reward for their labor.
