Colin Powell Quotes

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

Colin Powell

Recitation: by Male by Female

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I played college basketball. When I first decided I was going to play football, there were a lot of people telling me that I wasn't going to make it.

Jimmy Graham

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I'm not a parent, but it seems to me the nature of parenting is contingent, full of unexpected challenges - which is one of the wonderful and amazing things about it.

Stacey D'Erasmo

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I've been a minor celebrity since I was 23 years old.

Tony Wilson

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Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

Roger Ascham

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The gym is one of the few places where I can just be myself without any hindrances and inhibitions.

Ronnie Coleman

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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

Miguel de Unamuno

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I left school at 16 but I wish I'd gone to university - I think I would have studied English literature. I had a knack for that. But I don't think you have the kind of wisdom at 16 to make that decision.

Brendan Coyle

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We observe closely related species in sympatry and infer how they evolved from a common ancestor.

Peter R. Grant

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The light, that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing.

Thomas Moore

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The closest thing I use to beauty products is the grease on the pizza from John's Pizzeria.

Mark Feuerstein

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Our goal is not to build a platform; it's to be cross all of them.

Mark Zuckerberg

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I want POM Wonderful to be within arm's reach of everyone who wants it. That is the biggest service I can do.

Lynda Resnick

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