Colin Gunton Quotes
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Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
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Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians.
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The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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Everything I do is blown out of proportion. It really hurts my feelings.
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I like the fact that when you're put into a really extreme situation, you put everything else aside. You put your ego aside and get on with it, and I quite like that.
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Part of the excitement of doing independent film is the complete unknown of what lies in store for the film's future.
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I grew up on a farm in a small town where you do or say one thing and everybody knows about it. You see it happen, there's always the town gossip - 'Oh did you hear about so and so, or did you hear what went on in this household?' So I learned at a very young age just to keep my mouth shut.
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I honestly do feel that I am a role model for young people.
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Many support what I am doing.
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There is not a great sense that the Americans know what they are doing, or are making much progress in Iraq. And there is satisfaction in seeing that the Iraqis are successful in resisting the United States.
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19) Think before you make the coward's choice. Old age is not for sissies.
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I go to bed angry and I get up angrier every morning.
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As quoted in ''HEY, YOU CAN JUST MAKE STUFF UP.' Differences between magic and art: None', by Peter Bebergal, The Believer, (2013).
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I promise my students that if they take the time to figure out their life purpose, they'll look back on it as the most important thing they discovered while at school. If they don't figure it out, they will just sail off without a rudder and get buffeted in the very rough seas of life.
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I realised at a certain point that if I was going to have the kind of life that I fantasised about, I needed to get my act together.
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I think competition is very important; it breeds many good things in a person.
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Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.
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Too often students are being taught to read as if literature were some kind of ethics class or civics class—or worse, some kind of self-help manual. In fact, the important thing is the way the writer uses the language.
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Cheerfully fessing up to our failures turns crazy mind off, humility and compassion on. I learned this in a karate dojo that had a strange tradition. Everyone there loved recounting failure stories, and after an evening of smacking one another, we'd sit and have a beer while the students swapped tales of martial arts disaster.
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Everything important seems already to have happened.
