Colin Welland Quotes
One thing's certain. With a name like Abrahams, he won't be in the chapel choir, now will he?
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Liberals are always proposing perfectly insane ideas, laws that will make everybody happy, laws that will make everything right, make us live forever, and all be rich. Conservatives are never that stupid.
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We really accomplished what we set out to do with the Recovery Act programs, which was to fill the lending gap created by the crisis.
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It was kind of good that I wasn't doing the Hollywood high life and stuff like that when I was 18, 19, 20, 21.
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I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.
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Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
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A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
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North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restricted rights.
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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
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Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.
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Although they are unfailingly gracious, evangelicals are not so good at respecting professional boundaries.
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If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.
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Quite frankly, I don't miss standing in the box or standing on the field playing.
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After the dotcom boom blew up, it increased the focus on questions like, 'Why should I trust you to help run my business? How do I know you're not going to go away like every other company?' That was hard. We had to keep proving ourselves.
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I want to meet everybody on 'Disney Channel' and 'Disney XD' that are alive.
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After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.
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Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them.
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Tolerance is another word for indifference.
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I did not have a date to the prom. I went to my junior prom alone, and my senior prom, I was doing my first movie. I went in a limousine with, like, a bunch of people to my junior prom. It was a group date.
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I have always been into the darker side of things and love the mystery and sexiness of vampires.
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I thought he was an interesting central figure, central character, one who is definitely not your typical central character figure in a film, who's easy to like. He's not easy to like. It forces you to involve yourself with what's going on.
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In the future, I'd like to make jewelry and sell it under my own name. But right now, I've got enough on my plate!
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I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'
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One thing's certain. With a name like Abrahams, he won't be in the chapel choir, now will he?
