Colin Cotterill Quotes
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The long irons are the nemesis of the average golfer. I'm convinced that the underlying reason for this is that he keeps hearing how hard they are to handle. They're not that difficult, truly.
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Football is good, but family, close friends, my brothers - I have family everywhere - is the most important thing.
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You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.
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As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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In every relationship, the work is never just in the positive actions we do for each other, but in the follow up.
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I'm pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people's bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.
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Fiction connects: past and present; the great and the small; the surface with the depths. Fiction brings out the innermost, invisible springs of life that cannot be revealed in factual narratives.
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What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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The success of a particular policy prescription is always a gamble.
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Progress makes us lose the feeling of a ceremony that cooking should have. It has significantly shifted our values so that now it seems to us that only activities with an economic reward are worth pursuing.
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Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
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All you should try to do is behave with honour. If you can. At all times.
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The good books stick around for a reason. There is a reason that we come back to them and they are so rewarding.
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Before I had Toma, I was one of those people who had no interest in other people's kids. I was. 'Don't hand me that baby!'
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I'm not comically oriented. I get angry and I start complaining and then people start laughing. I don't even want them to laugh half the time.
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People who like hard-hitting wrestling and action, they'll like me.
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We probably haven't seen the variety and diversity of threats to Americans' safety and well-being and our national security in a long, long time. Some have said it almost makes you yearn for the Cold War days when you knew who the bad guys were and who the good guys were, and there was a wall dividing us.
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Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.
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I just keep happy and help the team when I get an opportunity.
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Confidence and empowerment are cousins in my opinion. Empowerment comes from within and typically it's stemmed and fostered by self-assurance. To feel empowered is to feel free and that's when people do their best work. You can't fake confidence or empowerment.
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I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage.
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I think there is sexy. And then there's tacky sexy. When you're young, you can get away with tacky sexy. I mean, it's not even tacky when you're young. But when you get older, it's just tacky.
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You always want to make sure that you're not the weak link. You're surrounded by really talented, great actors and singers, so just staying on your game is the main thing.
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There was nothing fake or added about him. He was all himself.
