Alex Colville famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I think if anything I am perhaps more inclined than most people are to be polite and considerate because I am aware that human relationships are innately fragile and kind of dangerous.
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I don't think there's such a thing as an evil animal.
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It's the ordinary things that seem important to me.
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I don’t intend to be menacing, but I do think of life as being essentially dangerous. We never know what’s going to happen from one day to the next.
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The woman sees, I suppose, and the man does not,
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My painting occurs when I think of two disparate elements.
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I don't use photographs because photographs don't give me the kind of information I need.
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I don’t intend to be menacing, but I do think of life as being essentially dangerous. We never know what’s going to happen from one day to the next.
-- Alex Colville
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Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.
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Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
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The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.
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Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.
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Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.
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It is emphatically the case that life could not arise spontaneously in a primeval soup from its kind.
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I know this because I understand now what love really feels like. The kind that consumes you. Love holds the power to break you. It holds the power to complete you.
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My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.
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