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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Depth on different levels is so important to me. You look at a band like The Beatles, all their material has so much depth to it. And I want people to be able to run away with my melodies and get lost in them and take the lyrics and be able to relate to them.
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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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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Wonderful to see with the whole family. It's like travelling from dynasty to dynasty, from one Chinese region to another.
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And where does the power come from, to see the race to its end? From within.
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I watch 'Shark Tank,' of course. It's very entertaining. I think it's actually good to help people think about the business they might start, and sometimes you get encouraged by looking at someone going into business and saying, 'Hey, I could do that.'
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Only an unhinged movie survives as a disconnected series of images, of peaks, of visual icebergs. It should display not one central idea but many. It should not reveal a coherent philosophy of composition. It must live on, and because of, its glorious ricketiness.
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I don't keep a lot of memorabilia around.
