Colin Hay Quotes
Well, my thoughts about California are kind of mythological. To me, as well as being a real place, it's a place where people go to find something - to find happiness or to realize their dreams. So it has that kind of quality of heroism and heartache, and Australia has that, as well.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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I'm easily entertained.
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Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston's intense, precise directions tortured me.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.
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I love acting. I've been doing it since I was 16, and it's in my nature. It's the thing I do best. But as much as I love acting, I love cinema more. I always had a thing about creating images.
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I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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People just can't wrap their heads around two young black women in a major production.
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I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.
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Well you know it's dangerous in politics, because especially in the Philippines there's a lot of killing in politics.
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Imagine the traffic jam you've got. We're talking about several miles of debris going down the interstates.
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Praised be You, my Lord, through our Sister, Mother Earth, who sustains and governs us, producing varied fruits with coloured flowers and herbs.
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In Lascaux and other sites, hoofs are depicted to show their underside, or hoofprint.
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Well, my thoughts about California are kind of mythological. To me, as well as being a real place, it's a place where people go to find something - to find happiness or to realize their dreams. So it has that kind of quality of heroism and heartache, and Australia has that, as well.
