Colleen McCullough Quotes
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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I don't wear a lot of color because I live in New York, and I'm sort of color-blind, so colors don't match to me a lot of the times, and it makes me anxious. So I'll always defer back to black.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
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I want to stay alive. Yeah, I want to stay alive. I think that's the main thing. If there's a chance I can live longer, I want to do it.
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In my next life, I want to be a housecat. Naps all the time!
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I was a commercial girl. In drama school, I was a mediocre model occasionally to pick up some extra cash, and because clearly I'm not six feet tall, and I had baby weight, I would mainly just would do promotional stuff.
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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.
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That's a beautiful thing. The more successful you are, the more people are going to come and be a part of music.
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I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.
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I'm just going to go with it for as long as it lasts.
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.
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In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.
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I love my shape because I work really hard at it. I honor my body by working out and seeing what it can do.
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The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
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I was born in Jerusalem with a religious background and a rabbi as a father... it was rather poor, but what we did have, we did have books.
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I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.
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You can learn so much just by observing.
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The people change, the common denominator is you.
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The appearance of things to the mind is the standard of every action to man.
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The effect of character is always to command consideration. We sport and toy and laugh with men or women who have none, but we never confide in them.
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Let our law-givers then make haste before it is too late to set apart this surpassingly glorious region for the recreation and well-being of humanity, and all the world will rise up and call them blessed.
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There are no ambitions noble enough to justify breaking someone's heart.
