Columbus Short Quotes
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I am in a traditional financial services business - but we at Fidelity can see that the evolution of technology is setting our industry up for disruption. What if this technology could do for the transfer of value what the Internet did for the transfer of information?
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I wasn't bad at school, but I was never a bookworm.
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Since I started acting, I've always been aware of the sort of 'beastly entity' that is America and Hollywood, and semi-consciously, I devised a kind of route in - I'd seen a lot of people try and fail.
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Part of my job as Children's Laureate is to visit schools and talk about my love of books and stories and encourage them all to do it as well - to read, to write, to never be afraid of their own voice. Because we all have something to say.
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Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.
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Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily.
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I think music docs could turn off some people.
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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
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Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.
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If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.
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I played in football games where you walk off the field and the scoreboard didn't end up the way you wanted. But you knew that you really did give it all. And the other team was too strong.
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I think we're right up there with Herman's Hermits and the other greats. Maybe somewhere between Herman's Hermits and the Gershwins.
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Cofounder relationships are among the most important in the entire company.
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Having a chance to be someone other than yourself and to act out stuff that makes people look at you, like, wow, and that's why I love acting so much.
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Nothing happens in any legislative body that's not purposeful.
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I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died.
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I just want to be known for what I do, not who I know.
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Anything I do, I want to do it well.
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On the street. I was talking to you and you found something better to do.
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She calls me up and says 'Guess what - we're going to the Persian Gulf for Christmas'. Immediately I put my hands over my clitoris. I don't want to insult the Muslim culture. It's such a wonderful culture for women - unless you have a clitoris and you're 13 cause they're hacking that shit off!
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Back in 2007, many people criticized me for my talk at the Munich Security Conference. But what did I say there? I merely pointed out that the former NATO Secretary General Manfred Wörner had guaranteed that NATO would not expand eastwards after the fall of the Wall.
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Civilisational triumph is important because if it is not actively sought, conflictual relations between members of geo-cultural domains may become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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When you're drinking from a creek, it's not a good news story. When you don't have food for a baby, it's not a good news story.
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I've never put my hands on a woman, physically, ever.
