Colin McRae (Colin Steele McRae) Quotes
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I follow the universe; I follow G-d. G-d made the sun, and the sun shines on everyone.
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I had cooked a lot in restaurants, in Rocky Point and on golf courses on Long Island, and my mother said, 'Be a chef,' and my dad said, 'Be a lawyer.' But instead, I auditioned for N.Y.U.'s Tisch School of the Arts.
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He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
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Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
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We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
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I am an inventor of music.
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Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.
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The beginning of wisdom is to admit to being inept. We’re all a bit slow. We have our moments, but in the end, we have to resort to bumbling through. It is what makes conviction so egregious.
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The story of your youth must not turn into a catalog of what became important in your later life. It must also contain the dissipation, the failure, and the waste.
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Blue is the male principle, stern and spiritual. Yellow the female principle, gentle, cheerful and sensual. Red is matter, brutal and heavy and always the colour which must be fought and vanquished by the other two.
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There's something dangerous about what's funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connection between funny and scary.
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It's sometimes the random people that say things that aren't so nice, but that's okay.
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They keep the song as street as it needs to be. It's got a good catchy hook where it can do what it needs to do on the radio, but they keep the song street where it will keep credibility in the hood.
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For a first-time entrepreneur, there's nothing better than being in Silicon Valley because there is so much going on, and there's such a large number of inventors, that even a B level idea or a C level idea could be nurtured and be given venture capital there.
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I'm a traditionalist. I have certain values I live by.
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I'm at one with Ed Miliband in saying that it's important that people have the right to express their democratic voices and also their deep concerns about climate change because we have a planet in peril.
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I think what really clicked for me was when I started booking commercials as a dancer... just being on set and seeing every element of production, it was magic to me.
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I'm willing to be different than other parents and go against the mainstream.
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So far I'm not surprised by anything about being a mom. It's all pretty great - but that's what I expected.
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I would wear the blue overalls of the fieldworker and often wore round, rimless glasses known as Mazzawati teaglasses. I had a car, and I wore a chauffeur's cap with my overalls. The pose of chauffeur was convenient because I could travel under the pretext of driving my master's car.
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I have always been interested in abandoned cars. I can't tell you how many times I've been in a car, driving, and there's a car sitting in a pasture, totally abandoned. Or on the edge of a creek or something. I always wonder: why did somebody park it in the pasture and leave?
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What Paris has done right is to make it awful to get around by car and awfully easy to get around by public transportation or by bike.
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Straight roads are for fast cars, turns are for fast drivers.
