Colin Hay Quotes

I just want to be a better guitar player, really.

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• It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Job
  • Popular
  • Results

• I would think about the outcome. Visualize sometimes. Because it never comes out the way you want it to. Fight the way I know how to fight. Whatever comes up, comes up.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Up
  • Think
  • Want

• I think there's a karmic purpose that souls make before they decide to come into people's bodies and become someone's parent, or become someone's child. Maybe my dad disappearing was his way of giving me material with which to work, or a predisposition to feel heightened emotions.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • People
  • Work
  • Giving

• If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Me
  • Friend
  • Cute

• Owing to the difficulty of obtaining horses, Mr. Henry returns from this place. In descending the Mississippi I will request him to pay his respects to you.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • You
  • Will
  • Him

• The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Darkness
  • Human Heart

• I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Darkness

• I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down.

  

  Young Buck
  • World
  • Feel

• Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.

  

  Florida Scott-Maxwell
  • Life
  • Better
  • Seed

• I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Words
  • Loss
  • Even

• London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • World
  • London
  • Most

• I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.

  

  Xosha Roquemore
  • Think
  • Like
  • Half

• I'd love to be on scripted TV shows and movies, but not just one - I want to be in a lot of them! I'd also love to sing and possibly be on Broadway. I want to do it all.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Movies
  • Sing
  • Possibly

• On the one hand, parents want their children to swim expertly in the digital stream that they will have to navigate all their lives; on the other hand, they fear that too much digital media, too early, will sink them.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Fear

• To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Me
  • Action
  • Sin

• After 40, you want to reverse the ageing process. That's complicated for me because I spent so many years wanting to be older.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Want
  • Me
  • Process

• I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Hate
  • Find
  • Conservative

• We do not want to leave Germany forever. Something I would not be able to manage at all, since my roots sit too deep in German soil.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Forever
  • Deep
  • German

• I have cried twice in my life watching a football player; the first one was Maradona and the second was Ryan Giggs.

  

  Alessandro Del Piero
  • Life
  • Football
  • Player

• The broader the chess player you are, the easier it is to be competitive, and the same seems to be true of mathematics - if you can find links between different branches of mathematics, it can help you resolve problems. In both mathematics and chess, you study existing theory and use that to go forward.

  

  Viswanathan Anand
  • Different
  • Player
  • Study

• [When] Johnny Mnemonic was coming out and I realized that all the kids that worked in 7-11 knew more - or thought they knew more - about feature film production than I did. And that was from reading Premiere, that was from this change that came from magazines that treat their readers as players. Magazines that purport to sell you the inside experience.

  

  William Gibson
  • Kids
  • Reading
  • Player

• Making a film is like making a mixtape. You're collecting all this stuff and putting your favorite stuff into it: you have actors that you like, characters that you're interested in, moments you want to explore, themes you want to deal with, music that you want to put in. It's a pastiche of all these things that deal with how you see the world.

  

  Derek Cianfrance
  • World
  • Music
  • Moments

• I just want to be a better guitar player, really.

  

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