Ann Cotton Quotes
The world has proved enough times that it can scale cruelty and violence. Compassion and kindness can and must be scaled to create a world of justice for children.
Quotes to Explore
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I've never been a partier.
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Everybody loves a villain - let's face it.
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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
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Our approach to banking is very different from the traditional banks or even some of the new banks. We do not necessarily go out and write single-cheque, large-ticket loans.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.
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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
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I'm a runner first before anything else.
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Ever since I was a kid, I've wanted to set a time that nobody can touch for many years.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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I never liked you, and I always will.
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Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
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An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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In a perfect world, I would be a painter. I love working with my hands. I don't get to do it as much as I like, but I am finding a way to make more time as life goes on because it's a really great outlet for me to express myself.
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Why must everybody like you?
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My father wanted a boy. I was supposed to be called Albert. That was probably the beginning of why things got so complicated, because I wasn't a boy.
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I always said that I'm not the best singer in the world, just the loudest.
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When I say I hate nostalgia, I hate things set in the recent past where everything is shiny and new.
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Keep your mouth shut, and close up the doors of sight and sound, and as long as you live you will have no vexation. But open your mouth, or become inquisitive, and you will be in trouble all your life long.
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The world has proved enough times that it can scale cruelty and violence. Compassion and kindness can and must be scaled to create a world of justice for children.
