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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People keep getting married, even when times are tough. They want to keep celebrating. The special days appear to be the times where women are still happy to invest, both in terms of time and money. They want to be told that they look beautiful and be remembered for all the right reasons. They don't want to provoke much more reaction than that.
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Apparently there are three levels of brain activity. Level 1 is the lowest level - the amount of concentration required to, say, delete emails or serve in congress.
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No one wears high heels all day, every day.
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The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.
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I want young girls that I mentor and young girls all around the world who want to be a model to be able to see that there's a great deal of sacrifice.
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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.
