Colin Wilson Quotes
Could it be that sexual perversion and romanticism sprang from the same longing for distant horizons?
Colin Wilson
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It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve - not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country - those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy - the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.
Abraham Lincoln
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I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people for free.
Takeshi Kitano
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The most important thing that everybody can do, aside from building and keeping your network strong, is make good choices about your health.
Dana Perino
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It's not like I ever sat in my room and said I was going to start a media company and become an editor in chief. It was never my dream. It was something that just happened.
Imran Amed
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I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.
T.I.
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I like power and I like to use it.
Sam Rayburn
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Today it is becoming increasingly apparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad and maintain any form of imperialism at home. The war has done this to our thinking.
Wendell Willkie
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Happiness quantification sounds a bit wishy-washy, sure, and through a series of carefully administered surveys across the globe, economists and psychologists have certainly confronted a fair number of sticky issues around how to measure, and even define, happiness.
Adam Davidson
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My real dream is to have a whole, like, buy a whole piece of land. Imagine, like, a long driveway. Like, a cul de sac-type street, with maybe, like, seven houses. Me be right here. Have my mom be able to be right here. My brother over here. My girl's grandmother and family right here. Friends over there. That's my real dream.
J. Cole
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The power structures in fashion used to be limited to western Europe and the States. That's changing.
Imran Amed
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Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, I'd like to study piano.
Jackson Browne
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It doesn't much concern me if Tiger plays in the tournament or no.
Vijay Singh
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Going to the Super Bowl is not the reward. It's playing really well and winning.
Dan Quinn
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...perhaps that is what ultimately unites us as a world: the fact that, no matter how prosperous a nation, how developed, all share the plight and embarrassment of having so many suffering children. We are united by our neglect, our abuse, our absence of love. Have we forgotten about the children, and thus forsaken the next generation?
Audrey Hepburn
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I've always loved 'Bond.' There were two franchises that I would always have dropped everything to do as a director. 'Bond' was one; 'Star Wars' was other.
Matthew Vaughn
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She reaches under and grabs my peech and like, squeezes it and walks away. I run over to Brooke and go 'Your mother just molested me. I could sue you and own this house'!
Kathy Griffin
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The single most important technique for making progress is to write ten words. Doesn't matter if you're badly stuck, or your day is completely jam-packed, or you're away from your computer - carry a small paper notebook and write a sentence of description while you're waiting on line at a coffee shop. I think of this as baiting a hook. Even if you have a few days in a row where nothing comes except those ten words, I find that as long as you have to think about the novel enough to write ten words, the chances are that more will come.
Naomi Novik
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Could it be that sexual perversion and romanticism sprang from the same longing for distant horizons?
Colin Wilson