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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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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Geneticists in the early 1900s believed that nature - in an effort to avoid wasting precious space within chromosomes - would pack as many genes into each chromosome as possible.
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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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I think friendship is more important than love, but that love that grows out of friendship is the very best of all.
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I think there is always a need for pure design. With pure design, you don't need so much decoration.
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Better it is toward the right conduct of life to consider what will be the end of a thing, than what is the beginning of it: for what promises fair at first may prove ill, and what seems at first a disadvantage, may prove very advantageous.
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I started modelling while still studying. I liked doing television commercials and being in front of the camera. Lots of ad directors told me to try for films.
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I put £150,000 into the stage production of Grease and have got back £1.5 million so far. It has been a fantastic success.
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Every walk of life falls under the Testicular Imperative: Either you have the world by them, or it has you.
