Colin Powell Quotes
The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting in above-average effort.
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We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
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Sport's hard: the margin between winning and losing is tiny.
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A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?
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I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
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I feel like, growing up, I watched football, obviously, and you see great players, and as a fan, you want to watch the best you can possibly watch, and you want to see what's capable of being made.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is.
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Any powerful technology can be abused.
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.
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The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
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I must stick with Chinese language films.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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Forward, always moving forward, from the time I can remember - a kid. I was short, and the big guys would take advantage; I had to turn myself into a body puncher. By that time I was in reform school, they'd have a boxing match every week; they'd bring guys in from outside to fight me.
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The smallest bacterium is so much more like people than Stanley Miller’s mixtures of chemicals, because it already has these system properties. So to go from a bacterium to people is less of a step than to go from a mixture of amino acids to that bacterium.
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Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.
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I think some of that comes with age, with life in general, to try to keep yourself as healthy as possible.
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We opened a shop in Rotherham which does free demonstrations every day, six days a week and it's been very popular.
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The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting in above-average effort.
