Colin Cotterill Quotes
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There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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I was just making music in my bedroom. I never wanted to be onstage.
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Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
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I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere.
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War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.
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You've got to keep your eye on the prize and do what you love to do.
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I never believed I was the best fighter in the world.
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Network TV is such a difficult, competitive landscape.
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One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds.
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When Orientals are attacked, they don't hit back.
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There is always a mix of apprehension and excitement before you try songs out on a new audience.
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Have a well-thought financial plan that is not dependent upon correctly guessing what will happen in the future.
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In the Ghetto, I'd been trying to write for years.
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I genuinely want to do my best every day, and I genuinely want to enjoy life every day.
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I have more pet peeves than anybody: people talking in the movie theater, people eating in the movie theater loudly, people being rude, people making noise when you're supposed to be asleep, like drilling noises outside. I could be here all day.
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I have a speech impediment because I slur a lot, and they even make fun of me on 'Cougar Town' because there's certain word combinations that I just can't say.
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I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.
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The Seventies theory explosion i.e., Literary theory, deconstruction, etc. was a panic reaction by headlocked pedants unable to cope with the emotional and sensory flux of the Sixties. It was a desperate search for new authority, new dogma.
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I've changed. You can't help it. Your mind starts working in a different way. You feel really scrutinised by people.
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I like listening to the whole song. Like my father says, "If you can't pick the whole song, then why are you playing it?"
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The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do.
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Honesty can be a dirty gift.
