Colin Hay Quotes

People say history is boring, and that is true because people are boring. We haven't changed since time began. We're still the same. We've obviously made some changes. When we started, it was all about food, clothing and shelter. Now we watch 'Top Chef', 'Project Runway', and 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.'

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• I believe that you can always learn from observation.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Believe
  • Learn
  • Observation

• I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Me
  • Hurt
  • Feel

• Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Time
  • Great
  • Interesting

• Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • You
  • Comedy

• I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.

  

  Gaspard Ulliel
  • Fun
  • Chance
  • Acting

• You want private education for your students? No problem whatsoever; pay for it.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Want
  • Education
  • Problem

• If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Write
  • Songs
  • Works

• To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • Job
  • Security
  • Honest

• Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Want
  • Own
  • Limits

• Acting is a cruel enough business. One minute everyone's going 'Hey!' and the next they're going 'Who?'. You certainly don't need people knowing your private business, especially if you want to come out with your head still attached.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • People
  • Business
  • Acting

• I like it when I am in the middle; I am closer to the ball. The manager wants me to pass, to make assists, create chances, and I do more because I think the position is more central, and I don't ask all the time for the ball at my feet.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Ball
  • Middle
  • Chances

• Y'all have no idea how many times I say, 'Yes, ma'am.'

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Idea
  • How
  • Yes

• I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skipped that awkward stage by not working those years.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • School
  • High
  • Think

• Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Word
  • Ownership
  • Possessions

• Nobody ever wants to really make someone feel bad.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Bad
  • Feel
  • Nobody

• I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.

  

  Barbara Mertz
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Habit

• I am proud of my kids and happy to brag about their achievements. Their success has been an immense source of happiness for me.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Kids
  • Happy
  • Success

• Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Children
  • Words
  • Poetry

• You know, being black doesn’t give you a license to call people racist any more than being Jewish gives you license to call people anti-Semitic.

  

  Alan Dershowitz
  • People
  • Black

• People are prospering from being unapologetically offensive, trite, and stupid. And we are tweeting ourselves into high blood pressure and ulcers trying to tell them to do better... Being a pompous nut biscuit is now a publicity strategy, and I don't know what we can do to end the madness.

  

  Luvvie Ajayi
  • People
  • Trying
  • High

• You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter's school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.

  

  Laura Lang
  • Life
  • Work
  • Important

• 'Of Mice and Men,' Steinbeck's fifth novel, adheres to a simple dramatic structure, which observes the classic Aristotelian unities of time, place and action.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Time
  • Men
  • Action

• I only know one thing. I have been bred through the Heat organization to do it one way. And every day, you prepare.

  

  David Fizdale
  • Organization

• People say history is boring, and that is true because people are boring. We haven't changed since time began. We're still the same. We've obviously made some changes. When we started, it was all about food, clothing and shelter. Now we watch 'Top Chef', 'Project Runway', and 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.'

  

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