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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When I went to live in New York, I didn't mean to stay there, but here I am.
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In order to improve healthcare, we'll have to spend more on it, increase accountability and decentralize services, enforce standards and reinstate people's faith in it.
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When the U.S. team went on its historic run to the World Cup quarter-finals in 2002, I was thirteen years old. Each game in that run - the astonishing victory against Portugal, the resilient win over Mexico, even the gutsy but unlucky effort against the Germans - propelled me to push my other athletic interests aside and focus only on soccer.
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There's danger in just shoveling out money to people who say, 'My life is a little harder than it used to be.' At a certain place you've got to say to the people, 'Suck it in and cope, buddy. Suck it in and cope.'
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They say that it were great reproof to the king to take again what he has given, so that they will not suffer him to have his own good, nor land, nor forfeiture, nor any other good but they ask it from him, or else they take bribes of others to get it for him.
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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.
