Colin Cotterill Quotes
“I dreamed the world was an awful place,” he said. “It wasn’t a dream,” she told him.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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There are times, especially when I was just getting into PC gaming, where I spent way less time playing than obsessing about the quality of the play.
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We know that reading to children is a crucial step. From the beginning, babies who are read to are exposed to the cadence of language, and school-age children who read at home for 15 minutes a day are exposed to millions of words.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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I'd rather work all night and sleep all day... perhaps I was a mole in my last incarnation.
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I do respond well to a director, a teacher - someone who doesn't accept mediocrity.
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Now at 47, 48 I am expected to do ten times better work that I did when I was 24.
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I'm a real optimist.
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You could grow up in Germany in the postwar years without ever meeting a Jewish person. There were small communities in Frankfurt or Berlin, but in a provincial town in south Germany, Jewish people didn't exist.
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How strange a thing like that happens to a man. He dabbles in something and does not realise that it is his life.
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This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done.
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All of my businesses are profitable.
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Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
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The life my grandparents had was thoroughly American. They built a small ranch into a huge operation and fulfilled my great-grandparents' dreams. Theirs was... a simpler time of contentment and patriotism.
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I'm kind of in between organized and messy, so if I have the right things to keep me organized, it's easier for me to stay that way. If I don't have the right tools, I'm a train wreck.
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I'm an obsessive. When I get a problem, a question in my mind, it can take me over.
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Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let's all go exploring.
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Just listen to all this sweet, sweet music. I'm working the music.
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My life is an ongoing, ever changing adventure.
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There are no hard and fast rules. Sometimes you work for free and get no credit or courtesy. That's why you make sure you do what you love.
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We are not hated for who we are. We are hated for what we do. It is not our principles that have spawned pandemic hatred of America in the Islamic world. It is our policies.
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A universe capable of giving birth to many such accidents is-- blind or not-- a good world to live in, a promising universe.
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I leave before being left. I decide.
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“I dreamed the world was an awful place,” he said. “It wasn’t a dream,” she told him.
