Colin Wilson Quotes
In refusing to face evil, Sinclair has gained nothing and lost a great deal; the Buddhist scripture expenses it: those who refuse to discriminate might as well be dead.
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I know so many people who are so much better at it than I am, and I think I'm a goofier person rather than a serious, dramatic actress, so I probably belong in comedy.
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Great men marry great women.
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It's great to have female characters that have depth that you can explore instead of being the decoration or the girlfriend or the wife.
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I wanted to become a champ - I was surrounded by champs in my family and in my neighborhood - and because of this stupid accident, I lost my opportunity.
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Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.
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When you spend a lot of money on one player, you want him to prove himself, but the way football works, one day you can be good, the next you can be bad, and the next after that, you can be very bad. I have come to Manchester City to work very hard and to help my friends make Manchester City great.
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I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances.
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I've always worn earplugs, but I'm sure my hearing's not great.
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When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.
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Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I've been called a great adventurer.
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I love my brother. I miss my brother.
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What's great about 'The Daily Show' is I can use satire and push the envelope. I couldn't do that anywhere else. Even if I was a journalist.
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My kids have a competitive drive I never had growing up.
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We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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My husband and I get along great. We're both introverts, and it's hard to make new friends.
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Incontestably, the great centres of population in the primeval ages were the chalklands, and next to them those of limestone. The chalk first, for it furnished man with flints, and the limestone next when he had learned to barter.
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Almost everything The Beatles did was great, and it's hard to improve on. They were our Bach. The way to get around it may be to keep it as simple as possible.
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The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
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The strong bond of sisterhood was a famous trait in classical art and literature about Amazons. But it was modern people who interpreted that as a sexual preference for women. That started in the 20th century. The Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva declared that Amazons were symbolic of lesbianism in antiquity.
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There's just as many different kinds of feminism as there are women in the world.
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I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.
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I'm just glad I got to work with the likes of Spielberg.
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In refusing to face evil, Sinclair has gained nothing and lost a great deal; the Buddhist scripture expenses it: those who refuse to discriminate might as well be dead.
