Colin Powell Quotes
We want to see both sides not take unilateral action that would prejudice an eventual outcome, a reunification that all parties are seeking.
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We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'
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I think everyone in the heptathlon is improving together, so it is a very hard event to compete in.
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The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
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You have two alternatives. One: you can put your life on hold and wait for the phone to ring. Two: you run ahead as if your life depended on it.
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I keep trying to convince people that I'm OK to wrestle, and I think that's probably the hard part. A lot of times I'm trying to convince myself, too, that I can wrestle. It's really hard, because the concussion issue is very subjective, and that's the part that a lot of people don't understand.
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I think I'd be a great mom, honestly. I don't think I'll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part.
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I enjoy my food. I like to grill; I do that a lot. I like meat and have big dinners - steak, red meat splurges, prime cuts.
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I can never sit still. I wanna hurl myself into life.
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If you are in banking and lending, surprise outcomes are likely to be negative for you.
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I hate dentists. That's why my tooth fell out. I was in the middle of a root canal and wouldn't go back, so it just dropped out when I was in the middle of Fifth Avenue.
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Harry Potter is awesome.
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That's sort of what we wanted to do: conquer from the margins, sort of find our place in the middle based on the fact that we were creatures of the margin and of alienation.
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Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.
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I don't think the woman in French 'Vogue' was an object. She was always a real woman.
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Fast bowling is an art, like spin bowling.
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I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.
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Personally, I believe people who have a lots of memories are people who are living with zest.
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The reason why time plays a great part in so many of my tales is that this element looms up in my mind as the most profoundly dramatic and grimly terrible thing in the universe.
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The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.
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And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written.
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These will be fabulous investments and will make millions of more people rich.
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Everyone wants the same thing in this band, so we definitely respect each other. I mean, all of us have had hit songs, so it's a band full of people who really know what they're talking about, so you have to respect that even when you think something you have might be great, and they go, 'Man, it's not as great as you think it is.'
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There is a fine circumstance connected with the character of a Cynic,-that he must be beaten like an ass, and yet when beaten must love those who beat him, as the father, as the brother of all.
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We want to see both sides not take unilateral action that would prejudice an eventual outcome, a reunification that all parties are seeking.
