Colin Kaepernick quote: "This stand wasn't because I feel like I'm being put down in any kind of way. This is because I'm seeing things happen to people that don't have a voice: people that don't have a platform to talk and have their voices heard and affect change. So I'm in the position where I can do that, and I'm going to do that for people that can't."

You have to train hard and be strong while staying flexible and limber, so I'm trying to find th...
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I've had times where one of my roommates was moving out of the house in college, and because we ...
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Nobody cares if you're black, white, straight, gay, Christian, Jewish, whatever it may be. When ...
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I'm going to continue to stand with the people that are being oppressed.
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We have a lot of people that are oppressed. We have a lot of people that aren't treated equally,...
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We have a presidential candidate who's deleted emails and done things illegally and is a preside...
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It was just something - I didn't agree with what the flag was representing at this time, and you...
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I have great respect for the men and women that have fought for this country. I have family, I have ...
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To me, I'm going out there focusing on competing, not worrying about cardio or anything like tha...
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The NFL is a performance-based business, so you should have to perform to earn some of your money. A...
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I'm going to speak the truth when I'm asked about it.
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Sometimes, when things are going really well, I feel like I've already seen things - it's th...
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At the end of the day, you have to look at, 'Are they knowledgeable? Are they doing their job?&#...
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If you're going to do something, you're going to do it to be the best.
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I have great respect for people's right to believe what they want to believe. And I don't th...
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I'll never take the easy way out.
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There's a lot of things that need to change. One specifically? Police brutality.
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Most people don't want to change. They're comfortable and set in their ways. But in order to...
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I think that's something that's hard for this country to address, is what the real issues ar...
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People don't realize what's really going on in this country. There are a lot things that are...
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I realize that men and women of the military go out and sacrifice their lives and put their selves i...
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I do want to be a representative of the African community, and I want to hold myself and dress mysel...
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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 peo...
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A lot of them have families to feed, and I think it's a tragic situation where players aren'...
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To me, when people say, 'Oh, you're a freak athlete,' it's bittersweet. It's a h...
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People are dying in vain because this country isn't holding their end of the bargain up as far a...
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You have to take care of the ball to win football games.
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I don't believe in pressure. The pressure is not being prepared for what you want to do.
COLIN KAEPERNICK

Victor Cruz just got his deal with Givenchy - amazing. I was so excited for him. That was amazing. S...
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You're going to hurt, yes. You're going to have tweaks and problems. But you're a footba...
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Once I get into the locker room, I turn on stuff to get me hyped up. Mainly, it's a lot of rap m...
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I have great respect for the religion. I know a lot of people that are Muslim and are phenomenal peo...
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I don't look at film that closely about my mechanics of where's my elbow at.
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Teammates tell me to bring it down a notch in practice or that their hands are hurting. Randy Moss t...
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All my life, I've had these flashbacks, these dreams, nightmares, daymares, like visions, where ...
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All my tattoos, they've been thought out, thought over, been a work in progress for at least a y...
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Mental health, for me, is doing everything I can to help this team win. Sitting around not doing any...
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I'd say that, 99 percent of the time at Nevada, I knew what the coverage was and where I was pro...
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I think I'm very good at reading coverage and knowing where I want to go with the ball before th...
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When you step on the field, you want to be a starter. You want to be the person everybody looks to a...
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To try to prey on athletes' livelihoods while one is going through a tough time is embarrassing ...
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Its a touchy subject, 'cause I never want to take it there, where it seems like it's all abo...
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Unless you're being carted off, you should be on the field.
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I love America.
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To me, tattoos are a way of people being able to express themselves and have other people look at th...
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I'm going out to play, and to play to win.
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It is funny to me that because I can run, because I'm athletic, people tend to see that as my on...
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I'm here to play football.
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I don't play for job security.
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I was not going to let people tell me what I'm capable of.
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Quarterbacks can still have good bodies. I'm always conscious of the stereotype. I want to chang...
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The biggest thing is I watch myself: What I need to improve on, what I can do different.
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I have a very high expectation for everything I do. And when I go out and compete, I expect myself t...
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My parents told me from the time I can remember that, 'Yeah, you're adopted. But this is you...
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I refuse to take shortcuts.
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The SFPD has had a lot of issues, and I think one of the issues that needs to be addressed is the ra...
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I never felt that I was supposed to be white. Or black, either. My parents just wanted to let me be ...
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When I'm actually getting off the bus, I still have my gospel playing. That's the way-to-the...
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I don't look like my high school self anymore. I feel like I look more like an adult now.
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Once you're on the field, you're playing. You're not worried about anything other than d...
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In the heat of the battle, it's always different than when you go back and look at it on film.
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Thankfully, God blessed me with some legs that move pretty good, and we also get to wear pads, so I ...
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People are terrified of them to the point where Trump wants to ban all Muslims from coming here, whi...
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Training, that's my specialty.
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I think, between the tattoos, the way I dress, the way I talk, people don't think it should go t...
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The support I've gotten from my teammates has been great.
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I'll always be a fan of coach Harbaugh. Not too sure about Michigan.
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To me, I've played full seasons and had success. Mentally, I've been through it before. I...
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I wouldn't say there is one specific designer I rock. It's more of the look of the shirt and...
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You have to be able to do everything as a quarterback, and that's not necessarily taking care of...
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I'm not your typical quarterback. I don't like when people say, 'Quarterbacks aren't...
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I haven't seen a quarterback play a perfect game yet.
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I'm not incapable of going through things.
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If you work hard and perform well, it doesn't matter whether you're 20 or 40. People are goi...
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Jim Tomsula is going to be great coach for us. Players' coach. Always around the guys. Someone t...
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I don't want people to think you have to look a certain way or be a certain mold to be able to b...
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I'm not too big on feelings.
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There are a lot of details to running that I never even thought about. I just went out and ran. I th...
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I have great teammates around me who make plays.
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I think being shy or a little bit more mild-mannered is more how you treat people and how you go abo...
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As far as jeans and shirts, I rock a lot of different things.
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Whether football's here or not, I will be fine. I go out, I play to win.
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I don't watch too much TV when it comes to sports or news or things like that.
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I think the biggest part of my game that's underestimated is the mental part of it.
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Every time I step on the field, I step on the field to make plays.
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I felt the way people talked to me was like, 'It's OK to be No. 2 in the NFL, a backup,'...
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If I got a football scholarship, I was going to be a football player.
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I'm still trying to improve. Everything I can do to improve every part of my game - I'm goin...
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People can talk all they want; that doesn't affect how I go about my business.
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What other people think of how I play and how I go about things really isn't something I worry a...
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Feelings aren't going to help me win a game.
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I trained with a few Olympic runners and jumpers. Just to try to get a little bit faster, a little b...
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I never weighed myself when I was at my lightest because I didn't want to know.
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When it comes down to it, you're playing football regardless of what offense you're in.
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Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
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My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight o...
COLIN POWELL

I collect watches because I'm always late, and I need to know exactly how late I'm going to ...
COLIN HANKS

At MIT, in Professor Rodney Brooks' lab, I was involved in a project, led by Anita Flynn, to bui...
COLIN ANGLE

I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, w...
COLIN POWELL

I thought boxes were the best toy. When my parents got a new car, I ran to my mother and said, '...
COLIN ANGLE

Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering.
COLIN FIRTH

Dr. Miller says we are pessimistic because life seems like a very bad, very screwed-up film. If you ...
COLIN WILSON

Isaiah Berlin once said that there are two kinds of writers, hedgehogs and foxes. He said the fox kn...
COLIN WILSON

It is clear as you look at the team why Data Point Capital has so quickly become one of the premier ...
COLIN ANGLE

'Lucky' is for laughs, and there's really nothing funny that I'm doing on 'Dexte...
COLIN HANKS

I've said before: 'If you're going to earnestly sing a song around a campfire, you'd...
COLIN TREVORROW

I've said before, if you're going to earnestly sing a song around a campfire, you'd bett...
COLIN TREVORROW

I'm handsome, no ands, buts or ifs.
COLIN MOCHRIE

I'm a horrible business person.
COLIN TREVORROW

A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.
COLIN WILSON

I want everybody to be scared to death of us. I don't say that in a bellicose way. I say that in a w...
COLIN POWELL

To be bothered wherever you go - it's not a rational thing to want at all.
COLIN FIRTH

The day the soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you stopped leading them. They have...
COLIN POWELL

Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vi...
COLIN POWELL

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this count...
COLIN POWELL

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

Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your...
COLIN POWELL

It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.
COLIN POWELL

Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
COLIN POWELL

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard...
COLIN POWELL

I think I'm still trying to find my feet as an actor. And I know it ain't brain surgery, but...
COLIN FARRELL

I didn't want to come up with some generic Johnny Bravo type name. I'm not that cool, so I m...
COLIN HANKS

Either move or be moved.
COLIN POWELL

Policies that emanate from ivory towers often have an adverse impact on the people out in the field ...
COLIN POWELL

90% of my time is spent on 10% of the world.
COLIN POWELL

Get mad, then get over it.
COLIN POWELL

It does help to actually realize that however stunning the person who is, you know, fluttering eyela...
COLIN FIRTH

Experts often possess more data than judgment.
COLIN POWELL

It is true that there are exercises that can strengthen the 'muscle' that enable us to push back the...
COLIN WILSON

A publisher is a specialized form of bank or building society, catering for customers who cannot cop...
COLIN HAYCRAFT

To be conservative requires no brains whatsoever. Cabbages, cows and conifers are conservatives, and...
COLIN WELCH

There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.
COLIN HAY

But you have to understand, American democracy is not like the system you have. We're not an ocean l...
COLIN POWELL

Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforti...
COLIN POWELL

The complex develops out of the simple.
COLIN WILSON

Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough
COLIN POWELL

Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.
COLIN POWELL

Organization doesn't really accomplish anything. Plans don't accomplish anything, either. Theories o...
COLIN POWELL

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failu...
COLIN POWELL

For me that's what's fascinating about the internet, that aggregate thing.
COLIN GREENWOOD

Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.
COLIN POWELL

No matter where you are in your life, whatever set of people you're with, it all still breaks do...
COLIN HANKS

The American audiences are more vocal and enthusiastic. British audiences tend to sit back a little ...
COLIN MOCHRIE

We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that wou...
COLIN POWELL

I don't believe that a female character needs to surrender her femininity in order to be an acti...
COLIN TREVORROW

Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approac...
COLIN POWELL

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
COLIN POWELL

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
COLIN POWELL

People are fascinated by robots because they're machines that can mimic life.
COLIN ANGLE

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you hav...
COLIN POWELL

But we're born as children and we look at the world with open eyes... And we don't judge and...
COLIN FARRELL

I do enjoy reading some science fiction.
COLIN FARRELL

If after you read something, you connect with it, you want to do it.
COLIN FARRELL

What my first son James did was allow me to care for something in this world when I couldn't car...
COLIN FARRELL

The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries...
COLIN FARRELL

I was never an A student, but I was really well behaved until I was 13 or so.
COLIN FARRELL

I'm just a true Irish boy at heart.
COLIN FARRELL

I couldn't care less about who sees my bits... My friends asked how I could do scenes like that ...
COLIN FARRELL

You spend so much time in your head in life. And what yoga does is, it asks you to allow your head t...
COLIN FARRELL

I'm not keen on cars and motorbikes. I tried to be a biker, but it wasn't me - I bought a Ha...
COLIN FARRELL

But I dare not think too far into the future on the risk that I'll miss the present.
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I know what the important things are in life. I know that just because I pretend to be someone else ...
COLIN FARRELL

My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and com...
COLIN FARRELL

I'm a big old romantic.
COLIN FARRELL

You're scrutinized all through your life - you're scrutinized by your family, by yourself, b...
COLIN FARRELL

I'm not going to lie, there are more interesting ways to spend your time than answering question...
COLIN FARRELL

It's not that I'm stupid. I just don't think sometimes.
COLIN FARRELL

Pain seems to be easier, or melancholy seems to be easier to portray in a character. I don't kno...
COLIN FARRELL

You know. I'll try anything. I'll do anything. I'll explore. Try different takes. All th...
COLIN FARRELL

I will say that as I get older and calmer and quieter in my own self, the one quality in a woman tha...
COLIN FARRELL

I've got plenty of love in my life already in the form of my sons and a few good friends who I v...
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

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