Colin Wilson Quotes

Whereas in the past optimism had been regarded as rather shallow - because 'oh well, it's just your temperament, you happen to be just a cheerful sort of person' - what I wanted to do was to establish that in fact it is the pessimists who are allowing all kinds of errors to creep into their work.

Colin Wilson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: June 26, 1931 - December 5, 2013

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I'm a free market person, a free trader. But if we had a market in California, there would be competition.

Anna Eshoo

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I like getting rid of things. I really do.

Matt Lauer

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I think at the beginning of a project, you decide if you're in love with the idea and what it's about, or what you think it's about at that time at least. Then you commit to it, and once you've commit to it no matter what, no matter how many self doubts you have, you're in it. The ship's sailed, you can't turn around.

Spike Jonze

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Mattel stepped up and changed the face of Barbie. Barbie looks a lot different than she did decades ago. Or even three weeks ago.

Troy Carter

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I'm not educated. I left school when I was 16, with no qualifications.

Robbie Williams

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People ask me why I became an actor, and the truth is that once you get cut from the baseball team, you need another angle to get women to pay attention.

Mike O'Malley

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I come from a very, very Catholic family. We used to pray the rosary every day after dinner.

Juanes

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I come from a very humble background. My father had to work really hard to become an assistant director. For a large part of his youth, he worked in a mill and took up odd jobs to make ends meet. We lived in a small room and could only afford a meal a day.

Dhanush

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Whenever I really get serious about something, I pull my hair back into a tight ponytail. If you see me with that, you know I mean business.

Coco Rocha

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I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

Brendan Behan

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I always look back at when I didn't have a dream, when I didn't have a spirit. I didn't know what the Olympics was all about. I was just hanging out on the street. I was not humble. I was not a nice person, doing things that were socially unacceptable.

Bob Beamon

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Over the years, Joy Division has become a huge part of music culture.

Peter Hook

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