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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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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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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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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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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Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
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The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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In order to do 'Amores Perros,' I had to skip some time at drama school, so the director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu came up with a great Latin American solution, which was to say I had a tropical disease and had to stay in Mexico for a while. Everyone believed me.
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There will always be people treated badly, which I feel is basic human nature and difficult to eliminate.
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I'm just going to write whatever I'm going to write, and whatever shelf or section they end up on at the bookstore is just going to be that, and I'll let the marketing people pull their hair out and worry about it.
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To whatever degree you have as a celebrity or notoriety, there are people who see you as an opinion leader.
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East and West, most societies have come to believe that competition will produce more prosperity for more people than a planned economy. I share that belief.
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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.
