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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Here is the surprising truth: It's often easier to make something 10 times better than it is to make it 10 percent better.
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I still love touring rock clubs around the world, and that's something that's really a part of me. I love making albums, and I'm a wedding singer on the side; that's my parallel career. So I love all those aspects of making music.
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After Watergate, which happened when I was in college, I became increasingly inspired by journalism as a way to change the world. It sounds corny, but to wake the public up, to serve a higher cause.
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If human nature were unchangeable, as ignorant people still suppose it to be, the situation would indeed be hopeless.
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There is no historical fact that did not owe its origin to social economics; but it is no less true to say that there is no historical fact that was not preceded, not accompanied, and not succeeded by a definite state of consciousness.
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“I dreamed the world was an awful place,” he said. “It wasn’t a dream,” she told him.
