Colin Powell Quotes
The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting in above-average effort.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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'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'd like to write the way Matisse paints.
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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
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The reason I still love performing is that people my age, a little younger and a little older, show up to relive that thing that made them so happy all those years ago. And as long as they show up, I'll keep on keepin' on till I keel over.
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According to the people who dearly would love to throw him out of office, Barack Obama was elected to be 'above politics.' He wasn't elected to be president, after all. He was elected as an avatar of American tolerance. His attempts to get himself reelected imply a certain, well, ingratitude.
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I like to write, and I would love to be a screenwriter one day and a director.
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The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting in above-average effort.
