Colleen McCullough Quotes
The most insoluble problems are those which by their very nature can have no space within them for dreams.
Quotes to Explore
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You can take things that Jimi Hendrix took, from Curtis Mayfield or from Buddy Guy for example, because we are all children of everything, even Picasso. But if you want to stand out, you have to learn to crystallize your existence and create your own fingerprints.
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A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.
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I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.
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Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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I feel that 'Tokoyo Drift' blew people away because not many people had high expectations for it.
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I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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When you hear romantic music, it makes you want to take your girl out to dinner or buy her something or take her out in the moonlight or take her on a walk.
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I busted my butt all my life building companies.
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I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
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The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.
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I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.
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What I have done in my nine year career was just a glimpse of what I can do.
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When I'm writing a movie, it's usually pretty close to what the movie is going to be, which is just a luxury of being a writer-director.
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You grow and evolve and as you do that, your art hopefully reflects that change and that growth.
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Care and pity are two different things.
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Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives.
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For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.
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Your race and gender don't change, but you can choose to change your political affiliation at will.
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To me, the trick is not how can I make people laugh. It is, how can I make people laugh in a different way.
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Get low; grace will meet you there.
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Long-term, I see robotics prevailing on the moon. . . . The most important decision we'll have to make about space travel is whether to commit to a permanent human presence on Mars. Without it, we'll never be a true space-faring people.
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The most insoluble problems are those which by their very nature can have no space within them for dreams.
