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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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 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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'The Exorcist' is absolutely my favorite horror film, and I watched it when I was, like, seven years old with my mother for the first time. I don't know why my mom let me watch that. I couldn't go to the bathroom by myself. I couldn't go upstairs by myself. I couldn't sleep.
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I think that souls agree to come in and do what they're going to do and then leave when they're going to leave. So there's nothing tragic when a soul leaves. I think it was already preordained.
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I'd much rather have the honesty than not. Because if you will say what's on your mind and get it off your chest, then the sooner I can prove you wrong!
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One should avoid carrying out an experiment requiring more than 10 per cent accuracy.
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At the end of the day, your fans are the people who support you in and out. And their opinions matter.
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I don't think I was really going anywhere in life. I don't think, I was achieving too much, even though I had a stable job and all.
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We've had this program for a number of years now, called 10,000 Small Businesses, where Goldman Sachs has convened a group of partners to basically give business education to small business owners.
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The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting in above-average effort.
