Colin Maclaurin Quotes
By proceeding with due care, every age will add to the common stock of knowledge; the mysteries that still lie concealed in nature may be gradually opened, arts will flourish and increase, mankind will improve, and appear more worthy of their situation in the universe, as they approach more towards a perfect knowledge of nature.
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The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.
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I'm the tomboy so I got to be a little butch.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
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I have been very fortunate in my life. I think I have an angel that is always with me. Good projects always come to me.
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I start the day with either Radio 3 or Radio 4. I don't watch any daytime television at all.
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My father loves people. No matter what their race, no matter what their position in life, he treated everyone with kindness and love and respect. And that was instilled in me just by watching him.
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Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.
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I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.
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I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star.
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For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.
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Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love, and avoid others, like loneliness. We eat specific foods to enjoy their fleeting presence on our tongues. We read for the pleasure of thinking another person's thoughts.
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I think most of the things I published have been published out of desperation, not because they were perfected.
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If an employer had to pay a man one dollar for the same work a woman could do for 59 cents, why would anyone hire a man?
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The male has a negative Midas Touch - everything he touches turns to shit.
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After a momentary silence spake Some Vessel of a more ungainly Make; 'They sneer at me for leaning all awry: What! did the Hand then of the Potter shake?'
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The happiest mortals on earth are ladies who have been bereaved by the loss of their husbands.
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Be bold! That's one wayOf getting through life.So I turn upon herAnd point out that,Faced with the wickednessOf things, she does not shiver.
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I'm a pessimist about probabilities, I'm an optimist about possibilities.
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In court the next morning I sat at a table in the judge’s chambers. On the other side of the table, close enough for me to reach across and touch him, sat Ted Bundy. He’s adorable, I thought, surprised at my first impression, because I’d pictured him in my mind as brooding, dark, intense disdain.
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Most cop movies and TV shows are fantasies.
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I gravitated to acting out of a mixture of instinct, naivete and opportunity.
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The universe will put signposts in your life. You can either ignore them or embrace them. You can choose and wish for all the things you want, but the things that are coming to you, you will never be able to hide from and the things that you want so bad that are not supposed to be for you for whatever reason, they'll never come to you.
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By proceeding with due care, every age will add to the common stock of knowledge; the mysteries that still lie concealed in nature may be gradually opened, arts will flourish and increase, mankind will improve, and appear more worthy of their situation in the universe, as they approach more towards a perfect knowledge of nature.
