Joan Collins Quotes

It's no one's fault to be born ugly, but, honestly, must it be worn as a symbol of pride?

Joan Collins

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I can see there's a connection between not following normal thinking and doing creative thinking. I wouldn't have had good scientific ideas if I had thought more normally.

John Forbes Nash, Jr.

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Oh yeah, I'm about to host the Genies, which are the Canadian Academy Awards.

Andrea Martin

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Rap and spoken word have reawakened the country to poetry in itself. Texting and Twitter encourage creative uses of casual language, in ways I have celebrated widely. But we've fallen behind on savoring the formal layer of our language.

John McWhorter

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It is not our job to apply laws that have not yet been written.

John Paul Stevens

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Headline writers love the phrase 'Power Grab,' but you can't really grab it, can you? Power is a greased watermelon, a wisp of smoke, difficult to grasp, harder to hold, impossible to control while getting both feet down in bounds.

Steve Rushin

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The AAU doesn't care about the athletes; why should I care about them?

Steve Prefontaine

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For victory in life, we've got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.

Lou Holtz

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People who take themselves too seriously, who can't see anything else, are usually funny.

Christopher Guest

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When I grew up, and I think about City Council, I look at the men and women then - these were people who just wanted to be a part of the community and give something back. They weren't necessarily trying to use it as a steppingstone to something else. I looked up to those people.

Brad Wenstrup

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Play begins as a major feature of mammalian evolution and remains as a major method of becoming reconciled with our present universe.

Brian Sutton-Smith

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A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.

William Wycherley

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Actually, I never really look at myself as a real radical activist; I am more the conservative. I mean, the conservatives are trying to conserve; the radicals are destroying the planet.

Paul Watson

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