Colm Wilkinson Quotes
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
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One of the exciting things about reporting is going to places you've never been to before.
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I'll give it a shot. But I don't know that a year from now I'm going to be here. Nobody does.
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I love books.
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Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.
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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?
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For the better part of two centuries, outsiders have been offering explanations that range from racist to learned-sounding - the supposed inferiority of blacks, the heritage of slavery, overpopulation - for why Haiti remains the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.
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I wasn't known as a neighborhood tough or anything like that. But yeah, I was, like, a scrappy kid. You know, I kind of kept to myself, you know?
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Pollock said several times that he couldn't separate himself from his art. Not knowing much about modern art when I began to read about him, I was much more his persona – his struggles as a human being – that was interesting to me.
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I can never wink at the audience.
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Back in 2005-2006 when Tudou and Youku were founded, we saw the inflection point with the opportunity to build the leading PC-based video website.
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I really love people. I love to meet people. I'm curious about people.
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I am inclined to think that the realm of mythology is where the Yeti rightly belongs.
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It is the essence of dignity to pretend to desire what you cannot prevent.
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Belief and work, knowledge and action are one and the same thing.
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I dreamt that my hair was kempt. Then I dreamt that my true love unkempt it.
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What gentle ghost, besprent with April dew, Hails me so solemnly to yonder yew?
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These fragile bodies of touch and tasteThis vibrant skin, this hair like laceSpirits open to the thrust of graceNever a breath you can afford to waste, when you'reLovers in a dangerous timeLovers in a dangerous time...
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I made a fortune getting out too soon.
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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.
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Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.
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I don't keep a lot of memorabilia around.
