Edwyn Collins Quotes

I'm an old man now. I can't believe it. I'm listening to all sorts because I'm producing people.

Edwyn Collins

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• It's my deepest interest as an actor: I love discovering how human beings work, how their flaws reveal themselves - how to learn and grow from that - and how characters teach me things as a woman and as a parent.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Work
  • Human
  • Actor

• The older you get, the less physically and mentally robust you become.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • You
  • Become
  • Less

• I believe in one thing-that only a life lived for others is a life worth living.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Worth

• You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • Wealth
  • Socialism
  • Dividing

• Bourbon's the only drink. You can take all that champagne stuff and pour it down the English Channel. Well, why wait 80 years before you can drink the stuff? Great vineyards, huge barrels aging forever, poor little old monks running around testing it, just so some woman in Tulsa, Oklahoma can say it tickles her nose.

  

  John Michael Hayes
  • Running
  • Forever
  • Waiting

• Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.

  

  William Cowper
  • Pleasure
  • Judgment
  • Degrees

• This Windows 95 hairball has become so big, so unmanageable, so hard to use, so hard to configure, so hard to keep up and running, so hard to keep secure. Windows 95 is a great gift to give your kid this Christmas because it will keep your kid fascinated for months trying to get it up and running and trying to figure out how to use it.

  

  Scott McNealy
  • Trying
  • Kids
  • Giving

• Robin Goodfellow, for all his pranks and mischief, was the sweetest, most noble person I'd ever known, and I'd missed him terribly.

  

  Julie Kagawa
  • Persons
  • Noble
  • Mischief

• January is always a good month for behavioral economics: Few things illustrate self-control as vividly as New Year's resolutions. February is even better, though, because it lets us study why so many of those resolutions are broken.

  

  Sendhil Mullainathan
  • Study
  • Broken
  • Economics

• Imagine what seven billion humans could accomplish if we all loved and respected each other.

  

  Anthony Douglas Williams
  • Humans
  • Loved
  • Accomplish

• You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Customers

• Make haste in giving voluntary charity, for calamities cannot pass by it.

  

  Al-Tabarani
  • Charity
  • Calamities

• My fight-or-flight mechanism... had served me well in Gaza, in Afghanistan, and all the places I'd been.

  

  Michael Finkel
  • Mechanism
  • Afghanistan
  • Served

• People forget that eating represents their most profound engagement with the natural world. Through agriculture is how we change the world, more than anything else we do.

  

  Michael Pollan
  • Forget
  • Natural
  • Profound

• Time is a river rolling into nowhere. We must live while we can, and we'll drink our cup of laughter.

  

  Steve Winwood Blind Faith
  • inspirational
  • Laughter
  • Drink

• Look, I don't think President Obama would have bowed to the ruler of Saudi Arabia if he didn't have oil to the degree that the Saudis do. I think they and other producing states, almost all of whom, except Norway and Canada, are dictatorships or autocratic systems, have thrown their weight around because of oil.

  

  James Woolsey
  • Oil
  • Obama
  • Producing

• Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

  

  Cathy Hopkins
  • Ship
  • Come In
  • Swim Out

• I'm an old man now. I can't believe it. I'm listening to all sorts because I'm producing people.

  

  Edwyn Collins
  • Not Believe
  • Producing
  • Old Man