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 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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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 can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.
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Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.
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When I was first learning songs, I'd have a favorite song, and I'd take the chords and twist them around. I'd learn the chords and then play them backward. That was my first experimenting with writing a song.
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Work lovingly done is the secret of all order and all happiness.
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I didn't end up some sad, tragic guy singing in a lounge somewhere. I never went out and took big money for nostalgia and became like an oldies act.
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One of my favourite exhibitions is called 'Do It,' which I co-curated with the artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier 21 years ago.
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I'll never forget a meeting with one publisher where they said, 'We don't publish books for teenage boys; teenage boys don't read.'
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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.
