Colin Bateman Quotes
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I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.
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The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he's managing. A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he's put in charge anyway.
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Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another.
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Our new pro-growth tax policy will be like a shot of adrenaline into the heart of the Kansas economy.
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You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.
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I firmly believe caretaking the soul is incredibly important for happiness.
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I really appreciate family. I really can't imagine life without them!
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The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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In the end, the actor's main power is the power to say, 'No.'
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And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
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The only reason to be in politics is public service. There's no other reason. Frankly, if that's the best job you can get in terms of money, that's too bad, you know. Because frankly, it's not well paid, everyone knows that. So for most people it's a big sacrifice.
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It's the same girl-who-has-everything story. You know, the one where she's insecure and scared and unhappy and has marriage problems and doesn't know how to handle stardom and screws up right and left and gets in with the wrong people and goes down the drain.
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India needs to sustain its high growth rate.
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If I had any humility I would be perfect.
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My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He's a tough, tough guy. When I was 15 we had a fight, and I didn't speak to him for 10 years.
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I'll leave the swearing to the Jane Fondas.
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But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.
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Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.
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People think of Jews as the Woody Allen stereotype, the nebbishy kind of thing, but that's not the kind of Jews I know. I know plenty of Israelis and plenty of tough guys that are Jewish. So, I think it makes sense that Jews play metal.
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When I was 15, I worked as a bag boy in a grocery store. I also needed to walk old ladies to their car and put their bags in the car, and they would give me two dollars. I felt like the richest man in the world.
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I love children and I love men, but I can't commit to either for the rest of my life.
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“Books are precious things and cannot be selected like tinned peas in Tesco.”
