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.
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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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As for the device we now call a TV or a cable box, I want it to be fast with a clean interface and seamlessly upgradeable to the latest software. I want it to be the primary source of all TV, not an ancillary device.
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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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I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.
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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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In 1990, I was in 'The Three Sisters' at the Royal Court and won the Clarence Derwent award for my supporting role as Natasha - the prize was £100. I could have paid the gas bill, but I ended up buying a porcelain and silver Bavarian coffee set in an antiques shop in Penzance.
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We can win respect in the world only if we are strong internally and can banish poverty and unemployment from our country.
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We are facing someone Iran who has an army, money, and a political plan for the Arab Islamic Middle East.
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Though my father was poor and had nothing, the Torah, the poetry of prophets, was his daily bread.
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Having lost its value, money may no longer be the root of all evil; credit having taken its place.
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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.
