Colin Wilson Quotes
Barbusse has shown us that the Outsider is a man who cannot live in the comfortable, insulated world of the bourgeois, accepting what he sees and touches as reality.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
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I act for love. I give it my all. I would probably still do it even if I wasn't paid at all. But in terms of equal pay, I need to be paid the same as the guy who has equal billing with me. Otherwise, I won't do it. Because if you accept less, you're just letting everyone else down and continuing the cycle.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me.
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I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.
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The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.
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Superman's always chasing after someone who just mugged somebody, and I've never seen that happen in my life.
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I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.
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It used to be that you needed a $500-million-a-year company in order to reach a worldwide audience of consumers. Now, all you need is a Steam account. That changes a whole bunch of stuff. It's kind of a boring 'gee, information processing changes a stuff' story, but it's going to have an impact on every single company.
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Whenever I see the Hong Kong flag is flying in the sky, not because of anybody else, because of my efforts, I think it's the most proud time of my life.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the 'Pink Panther' theme. That was my goal. Once I was good enough, I quit. Now my music has to have some rock.
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If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together.
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I got my transferrable skills from working at entry-level, gauging what I wanted from my career, and making sure I had what it took to get the one I truly wanted. But now there's a Catch 22: school leavers need experience to get jobs, but they can't get experience without jobs.
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I have spoken about deficits, and I think deficits are important because they address broad economic and financial stability. We need to talk about that.
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I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.
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When you make music, you're forming these invisible vibrations in the air into different shapes and consistencies and speeds in order to create music, and understanding how the math of that works just gives you more colors to paint with, and allows you to get to what you want quicker.
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Barbusse has shown us that the Outsider is a man who cannot live in the comfortable, insulated world of the bourgeois, accepting what he sees and touches as reality.
