Colin Fletcher Quotes
Every walk of life falls under the Testicular Imperative: Either you have the world by them, or it has you.
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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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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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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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If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.
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I think that most people who hire me to do a remix just want it to work in a nightclub, whereas when I'm writing my own album, I don't have to worry so much about 2 A.M.
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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.
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Woody Allen likes to do a lot of master shots. He likes to get the whole thing in one take, and so you could be going along doing a scene, and then the next to last line, all of a sudden, you stumble, and you have to go back to first base.
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I learned my values. It's better to be poor than to be beholden. Wealth is not the object of life. You should be polite as long as possible, and when you can't be polite anymore, don't run.
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Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.
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That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.
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Every walk of life falls under the Testicular Imperative: Either you have the world by them, or it has you.
