Colin Fletcher Quotes
Under most conditions, the best roof for your bedroom is the sky. This commonsense arrangement saves weight, time, energy, and money.
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In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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Living in New York City is one constant, ongoing literary pilgrimage. For 20 years, I lived among the ghosts of great writers and walked where they had walked.
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Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.
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The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it.
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I am such a political person.
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I live for my daughter. Every decision I make is about her and for her. It's great. She's perfect.
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I haven't always felt it was okay to read romance novels. When I was younger, it embarrassed me to be seen with my books, but I've come out of the closet.
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There's not much money in Tallahassee. Not many people can leave Tallahassee because they don't have the means.
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A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
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People are always asking me if I'm frightened, hanging out with al Qaeda, but usually those encounters are one-on-one interviews. I'm talking to people whose views I don't agree with, but that happens all the time.
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Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est. (Applaud, my friends, the comedy is over.)
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That was the danger Samuel Butler jestingly prophesied in Erewhon, the danger that the human being might become a means whereby the machine perpetuated itself and extended its dominion.
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How was I supposed to know?She was slowly letting go?If I was puttin her through her hell,Hell I couldn't tell.She could've given me a sign,Could've opened up my eyes.How was I supposed to see?She never cried in front of me.
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I have a very difficult time describing my music. Because I run into people in the hardware store and they go, 'Oh, you're a musician. So what kind of music do you play?' And I go, 'Uh, I've been doin' this for many years - I don't know what to call it.'
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I don't think you can approach any piece of art with boundaries or rules. I think respect is a very important thing, but I also think what we discover along the way is really important.
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I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise.
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Most diets would have you cutting things out from your diet; they are about denial and discipline.
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I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room.
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I don't think it's a Western thing to really talk about intrinsic motivation and the drive for autonomy, mastery and purpose. You have to not be struggling for survival. For people who don't know where their next meal is coming, notions of finding inner motivation are comical.
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In its essence, technology is something that man does not control.
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The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.
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There is no way to escape death, it is just like trying to escape by four great mountains touching sky. There is no escape from these four mountains of birth, old age, sickness and death.
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Under most conditions, the best roof for your bedroom is the sky. This commonsense arrangement saves weight, time, energy, and money.
