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I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color.


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COLIN FARRELL I've never seen a moon in the sky that, if it didn't take my breath away, at least misplaced...
COLIN FARRELL Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.
COLIN FARRELL The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody says, 'Gee, ...
COLIN POWELL It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a p...
COLIN POWELL I think whether you're having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winni...
COLIN POWELL When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you've got to be ...
COLIN POWELL But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you&#...
COLIN POWELL In other words, don't expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a no...
COLIN POWELL If a leader doesn't convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity wit...
COLIN POWELL There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the...
COLIN POWELL I thought Charlize Theron was awesome in 'Mad Max,' and that was a very masculine kind of he...
COLIN TREVORROW Some of the generals are saying, 'We're making progress. We are clearing an area.' But y...
COLIN POWELL My very clear vision for the ideal Roomba is one you never see and you never touch. Our research pri...
COLIN ANGLE I started to watch 'Play for Today' and plays like 'Cathy Come Home,' and Kenneth Br...
COLIN SALMON I learned to canoe at summer camp and thought I'd pursue Olympic whitewater canoeing. In my seni...
COLIN ANGLE You can't just have slogans, you can't just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda....
COLIN POWELL Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.
COLIN POWELL We would go back and maybe not say that thing to our dad that we said, or maybe be a little nicer to...
COLIN TREVORROW Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it...
COLIN POWELL The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.
COLIN POWELL The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standin...
COLIN WILSON The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an o...
COLIN POWELL Vampires have always held a very seductive kind of lore and have always been some variety of attract...
COLIN FARRELL Our top story tonight: Famous TV dolphin flipper was arrested today on prostitution ring charges. He...
COLIN MOCHRIE My singing voice is somewhere between a drunken apology and a plumbing problem.
COLIN FIRTH There's no point apologizing about where you come from.
COLIN GREENWOOD Life is apogee, apex, decline; life is death - and everything else is open to discussion.
COLIN FARRELL I think that, often, actors represent what they're not. You get people who define the aristocrac...
COLIN FIRTH Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, t...
COLIN POWELL