Colin Marston Quotes
I think every band I'm a part of fulfills something the others don't, so I'm pretty convinced I need all of them.
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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Other families who are poor do what they can to get out of it. My mother did not. She did not utilise her resources. She had a degree. There was something she could have done, but she actively, purposely refused that so we could have this absolutely authentic experience of the worst of capitalism: 'See? Look how bad capitalism is.'
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
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On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!'
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The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
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Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities.
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Hong Kong girls have a genius sense of style. I came back to the States thinking no one here has any individuality. Or cute enough socks.
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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When you go see a good DJ, you'll know it, man - you'll know it in your bones. Between the guy who's phoning it in and the guy who's obsessively working it to give you the best show of his life.
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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.
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I convened the first-ever national training conference for prosecutors on how to promote and deal with hate crime issues in terms of prosecutions and also protocol for defeating the gay panic defense.
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I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe.
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How can a guy talk about $20 or $30 million if he's never even made $8 or $9 million?
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What makes us Americans is something more than just the circumstances of birth, what we look like, what God we worship, but rather it is a joyful spirit of citizenship. Citizenship demands participation and responsibility, and service to our country and to one another. And few embody that more than our men and women in uniform.
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Caste is not just a division of labour, it is a division of labourers.
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If the person laughs well, they are a good person.
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Integrity matters. What our fans think matters.
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It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of his works.
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To try to be happy is to try to build a machine with no other specification than that it shall run noiselessly.
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I think of myself as a jazz player, and my music as a natural extension of the jazz tradition. What I'm doing is completely free improvisation ('composing in real time') with nothing predetermined. I've had a lot of experience playing many different kinds of music and several different instruments, and since I tend not to waste anything, it all shows up somewhere in the music I'm playing now.
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I think every band I'm a part of fulfills something the others don't, so I'm pretty convinced I need all of them.
