Colin Hay Quotes
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I have great stories. I am going to write a book.
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It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
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We must ensure that technology is accessible, affordable, and adds value.
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I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
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I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down.
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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.
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I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
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London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
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I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.
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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.
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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.
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Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.
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To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.
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Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
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My parents were brutal to each other, so I slept in the basement by an old coal-fired furnace. I became a street kid. Occasionally, I'd live with aunts or uncles, then I'd run away to live in the woods, trapping and hunting game to survive. The wilderness pulled at me; still does.
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Super polished signage is not always a good sign. I'm always looking for places that you have to know about to find. Also, just food-wise, if I'm eating ethnic cuisine - I hate that phrase, but still - If I'm eating Mexican food, I'm looking to see that there are Mexicans in the restaurant. They know if the food is being made right.
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I just want to be a better guitar player, really.
