Columbus Short Quotes
I think showing heroes as fallible helps us and reminds us that we are ourselves fallible and no man is perfect but we can still achieve great things.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm very self-critical.
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
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I had always dreamed of winning Wimbledon and when it happened it was very stressful. It was more of a relief!
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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
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I've got a 1990 Porsche 911. It's just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.
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I am disappointed and disturbed by both the NFL and the Dodgers - but much more by the Dodgers.
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You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
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But nothing beats a Woody Allen film on a Sunday night, with a glass of wine and some leftovers.
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Studies have proven that early childhood education returns to society as much as $12 for every dollar invested. Our goal is to identify the most important development opportunities for children five years and younger, providing insight to transform early childhood education from a social policy issue into an economic imperative.
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We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.
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I had success. I had a number one record. I had a number one album. I have to make this kind of record again or else I'm going to lose it all. That's how you end up making the same song over and over.
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Reading a play, you view yourself as part of a whole. You see where the whole thing is going, and so you're willing to go to the very ugly place that your heart may go in order to serve the whole.
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Jesus Christ became Incarnate for one purpose, to make a way back to God that man might stand before Him as He was created to do, the friend and lover of God Himself.
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To play opera, to play Wagner, it's a great joy.
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I like the Baldwin boys a great deal. Alec is super-smart, super-articulate, almost too smart to be an actor.
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I think showing heroes as fallible helps us and reminds us that we are ourselves fallible and no man is perfect but we can still achieve great things.
