Colum McCann Quotes
You know, when you're young, God sweeps you up. He holds you there. The real snag is to stay there and to know how to fall. All those days when you can't hold on any longer. When you tumble. The test is being able to climb up again.Colum McCann
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I love my family and I miss them very much but I'm a new person now. I know a lot of people will not agree with what I've done, but it was right for me.
LaToya Jackson -
My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
Damian Lewis -
To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
Yaya Toure -
The army should go back to their assigned duties, and police should take the responsibility of fighting the cartels.
Vicente Fox -
People are making judgements about Russian people based on me. This is why I never allow myself any aggression towards my opponent.
Fedor Emelianenko -
In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
Zhu Zhu
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
Gao Xingjian -
When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
Dane Cook -
Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
Imtiaz Ali -
Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.
Taylor Momsen -
English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
Yaya Toure -
I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
Harold Budd
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In the hands of good writers, you have the opportunity to present both sides of an opinion equally and that you leave it to the audience to listen and then make up their own minds.
Mandy Patinkin -
It is in the U.S. interest to engage Iran in serious negotiations - on both regional security and the nuclear challenge it poses.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.
Jack Kingston -
My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger at not having been able to find honest, accurate books about people like myself as a teen, books that show we're as diverse as straight people and that we can lead happy, healthy, productive lives just as straight people can.
Nancy Garden -
People don't think an athlete nowadays can have a team-first mentality and I do.
Abby Wambach -
It costs more money to put a person on death row than it does to lock them up for the rest of their lives because of attorney fees.
Gary Johnson
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With a smaller setting, you have a lot more freedom and flexibility within a given moment, but not necessarily the velocity you have with a big band.
Kurt Elling -
We may have lured judges into roaming at large in the constitutional field.
Warren E. Burger -
My opinion is that I follow what the Lord says. Or I try to. Others are following what they want to do, basically. They are living for their self. I am living for God.
Tyson Fury -
Look at what's happening between Main Street and Wall Street. The stock market index is up 136 percent from the bottom. Middle class jobs lost during the correction: six million. Middle class jobs recovered: one million. So therefore we're up 16 percent on the jobs that were lost. These are only born-again jobs. We don't really have any new jobs, and there's a massive speculative frenzy going on in Wall Street that is disconnected from the real economy.
David Stockman -
You know, when you're young, God sweeps you up. He holds you there. The real snag is to stay there and to know how to fall. All those days when you can't hold on any longer. When you tumble. The test is being able to climb up again.
Colum McCann