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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Tom Brokaw was never young.
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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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American actresses have more problems than I do; I'm lucky to be able to play what I want for a smaller audience, because I have my own country to do that in.
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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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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
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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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Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gott gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk.
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If you really want to change the world, change kids when they're two.
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[There are, in us] possibilities that take our breath away, and show a world wider than either physics or philistine ethics can imagine. Here is a world in which all is well, in spite of certain forms of death, death of hope, death of strength, death of responsibility, of fear and wrong, death of everything that paganism, naturalism and legalism pin their trust on.
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Every campaign, Garry Wills once wrote, 'taught Nixon the same lesson: mobilize resentment against those in power.' History taught the same to many conservative and reactionary populist movements, whose real attitude to those in power and authority was one of a servile, envious, vicarious adoration.
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“I dreamed the world was an awful place,” he said. “It wasn’t a dream,” she told him.
