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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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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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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You don't have to worry about what happened last year; you can start fresh.
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My parents are artists and have always instilled great pride in understanding of various backgrounds.
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I get pretty grumpy about TV.
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In a fascist system, it's not the lies that count but the muddying. When citizens can't tell real news from fake, they give up their demands for accountability bit by bit.
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Nothing matters as long as you are kind and authentic. If you are, then you did your best, and that is all you can do.
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If someone's a flake, I help them dig their own hole. I let the audience be the judge. And believe me, they are.
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There was nothing fake or added about him. He was all himself.
