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.Columbus Short
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I'm very self-critical.
Manolo Blahnik -
Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
Larry Elder -
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.
Karan Johar -
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.
Sam Neill -
In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
Naguib Mahfouz -
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.
Vidya Balan
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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!
Pat Cash -
Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
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.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
Barbara Walters -
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.
Zac Goldsmith -
I am disappointed and disturbed by both the NFL and the Dodgers - but much more by the Dodgers.
Zev Yaroslavsky
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You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
W. Clement Stone -
But nothing beats a Woody Allen film on a Sunday night, with a glass of wine and some leftovers.
Kate Fleetwood -
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.
J. B. Pritzker -
Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.
Karel Capek -
I hate Valentine's day. It is a day for nothing but disappointment.
Larisa Oleynik -
In Australia, we've always been a country that runs the ball right up the middle on the fifth tackle. We've never seen a challenge we didn't like, and we've certainly never run from one.
Wayne Swan
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I'm in love with what a high heel does to a leg: how it makes a woman or a man feel. It's empowering.
Billy Porter -
America is a flawed land but a great one indeed.
Kerby Jean-Raymond -
Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.
Paul Theroux -
Dancing to a great song with great friends and lots of laughter makes me come alive.
Sadie Calvano -
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.
Columbus Short