Colin Fletcher Quotes
Every walk of life falls under the Testicular Imperative: Either you have the world by them, or it has you.
Quotes to Explore
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I love my wife, I love my kids.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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Once you're signed to a label you compromise.
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I loved fairy tales as a kid, so that's where my mind gravitates.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
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Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars.
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I'm still learning how to do things - like lining my eyes? Forget it.
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Dancing has always been a passion of mine.
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IBM, Microsoft, the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together... But where did the money go?
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I honored my commitments, and as president, I will honor every commitment that I make to the men and women of this country.
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In Denmark, we're making 20 films a year. If I'm showing up in even two of those, people will get tired of me really fast.
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Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.
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In Washington, I am a leader on the issues that matter to my community, and I think that's what my constituents want, and also I think that's what voters want. Someone who understands them, who wants to represent them, and who works tirelessly every day on behalf of their interests and their values.
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Pain is the most private experience, but its causes, whether natural or man-made, demand public accounting.
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Like its Senate counterpart, H.R. 1908 is the product of years of bipartisan collaboration. And now, by passing S. 1145, the U.S. Senate has a similar opportunity to restore our patent regime to its rightful position of protecting inventors' property rights and spurring innovation. These are values that all Americans should rally behind.
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The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.
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L.A. kind of scares me.
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I want to make beautiful paintings. But I don't make beautiful paintings by putting beautiful paint on a canvas with a beautiful motif. It just doesn't work. I expect my paintings to be strong and surprising.
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You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' … You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
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Shakespeare has great ability to skirt around a subject and portray human nature.
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Every walk of life falls under the Testicular Imperative: Either you have the world by them, or it has you.
