Colin Wilson Quotes
I was aggressively nonpolitical. I believed that people who make a fuss about politics do so because their heads are too empty to think about more important things. So I felt nothing but impatient contempt for Osborne's Jimmy Porter and the rest of the heroes of social protest.
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The world at large doesn't always make sense to me, and there are safe havens. Linda Manz in 'Out of the Blue' is one of them.
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I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. 'Ice Ice Baby' is about that area.
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
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Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
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Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.
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I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are very afraid that if they do anything with their minds they won't be complete women. I don't think my daughters' generation has that feeling.
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I know I'm never going to be as successful as my dad, but I get bored doing nothing. I couldn't go from vacation to vacation and have no motivation.
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If the artists would just keep hammering away - unify, stick together - then music will become the king again, which is what it should be.
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With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.
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Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.
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I would never want to be selected to a team just because I am going to set a record. It's critical to me to earn my way.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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One afternoon, on my way to the campus - I was majoring in political science at Nairobi University - a photographer by the name of Peter Beard stopped me in the street and asked me if I'd ever been photographed.
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I'm not ready to get married, but I have a pretty great family and I'd like that too, someday.
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If you are a singer and you lose your voice, you realize that you have other skill sets when that is taken out of the equation.
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The most important question a human being has to face... What is it? The question, Why are we here?
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What you feel is important may not be what the director feels is important.
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How many people in the pews know that [ Jonathan Edwards] is both a founder of evangelicalism and, say, an idealist who denied that the material world exists?
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I was aggressively nonpolitical. I believed that people who make a fuss about politics do so because their heads are too empty to think about more important things. So I felt nothing but impatient contempt for Osborne's Jimmy Porter and the rest of the heroes of social protest.
