Kim Collins Quotes
I would like to thank the Commonwealth Games Federation for the very fair manner in which this matter has been dealt with.
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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The train's always full of football fans going up to see matches. Oh, they make sure I hear their points of view all right. They all want to have their say about their team, and make their opinions known.
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I believe honor thy mother and father is not just a good commandment to live by, it is good public policy to govern by. That is why I feel so strongly about Medicare.
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I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am.
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I always had the theory that the most important thing is be happy, enjoy what are you doing, and be fresh mentally.
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I'm interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them.
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Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
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You have young men of color in many communities who are more likely to end up in jail or in the criminal justice system than they are in a good job or in college. And, you know, part of my job, that I can do, I think, without any potential conflicts, is to get at those root causes.
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I want to work on things that aren't self-evident, to propose things that are radically different and game-changing.
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I grew up in New York till I was 5, and I remember going to see 'Annie' and some musicals as a kid, and I remember my parents being somewhat okay with us watching 'Rocky Horror Picture Show,' which, it boggles my mind that they allowed me to watch it.
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If ever I was feeling down I would go and write something. It's a form of escape.
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I like reading a lot. Jeffrey Archer and Robert Ludlum are my favourite authors. I love making realistic cinema, so I read non-fiction more.
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For correct writing, the cultivation of patience and mental accuracy is essential. Throughout the young author's period of apprenticeship, he must keep reliable dictionaries and textbooks at his elbow; eschewing as far as possible that hasty extemporaneous manner of writing which is the privilege of more advanced students.
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Doing a lot of drama earlier in my career and now exploring comedy has been a treat for me, and I've had an absolute blast, and I hope to continue.
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I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.
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I might not have believed this if a Human had said it. Humans said one thing with their bodies and another with their mouths and everybody had to spend time and energy figuring out what they really meant.
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A weak invention of the enemy.
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Sex is nostalgia for sex.
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Thus have I, Wall, my part discharged so; And, being done, thus Wall away doth go.
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As a species, we can at times be dimwitted and cruel. But we're also capable of learning.
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I use a note-taking system I learned in history class in eleventh grade.
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I hate being put in a box labelled 'tropical house.'
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Peace - the word evokes the simplest and most cherished dream of humanity. Peace is, and has always been, the ultimate human aspiration. And yet our history overwhelmingly shows that while we speak incessantly of peace, our actions tell a very different story.
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I would like to thank the Commonwealth Games Federation for the very fair manner in which this matter has been dealt with.
