Coleman Young Quotes
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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I suppose illustration tends to live in the streets, rather than in the hermetically sealed atmosphere of the museum, and consequently it has come to be taken less seriously.
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I would wait in line for anything to do with 'Doctor Who.'
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
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If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper's future success.
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As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'
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I've always looked at 2016, but 2020 is realistic for me. I'll be 23 in 2016, but if I keep on progressing, hopefully 2016 will be a medal chance as well for me.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.
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In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.
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The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.
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What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.
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Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
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People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.
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Generally, writers have very uninteresting lives.
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I have worked hard since my childhood and worked as a labourer. I put my mind and heart into it.
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.
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As one former prisoner put it in speaking to his fellow citizens, 'Politics is your job. It’s not only for the politicians.' And we have an expression in the United States that the most important office in a democracy is the office of citizen - not President, not Speaker, but citizen.
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Millions of people in nearly 80 countries still live in fear of landmines and explosive remnants of war, which take an unacceptable toll on lives and limbs, and people's livelihoods
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The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me. And even though I have to face the prospect of being a minority of one, I humbly believe I have the courage to be in such a hopeless minority.
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Courage is one step ahead of fear.