Colin Powell Quotes
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.
Quotes to Explore
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Europe believes that providing clear labelling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, but such practice is absolutely opposed by the vast majority of states in the U.S.
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When you promise something, you must fulfill it.
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The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
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And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.
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I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors.
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I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.
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Suning Appliance has no problem of financial risk. Do you think I'm risky? I'm definitely not risky.
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Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.
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Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
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For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
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Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'
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He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
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It is key that Kansas Citians make the call as to what kind of airport they want.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, great actor. It was a joy to get to know him as a person.
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You learn as much as you can from the people that you work with. That's why you want to surround yourself with the heaviest people that you can possibly get to.
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My job as an actress is to make things work and come up with reasons of my own and not just fill in the blanks for anybody else, you know what I mean?
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When you are playing with a few players in the pocket, it doesn't leave me isolated. I have a bit more space to work and be higher up the pitch.
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The success of a corporation is inversely proportional to the size and opulence of its headquarters.
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Acting has made me embrace my childhood. It's become some weird form of therapy. It's like I have a place where I can release all of these emotions. When I was playing Ira Hayes, I didn't have to think about the death of my parents directly. It's just there. I can blend it into Ira's character. I can use Ira's emotions as an outlet.
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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.
