Colin Hay Quotes
I used to drink a lot. I had to stop drinking because it was getting the better of me, and I replaced that with really doing shows.

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I always love the quirky stuff, which is why I love 'Childrens Hospital.' That really pushes the envelope of comedy.
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Oakland kids are always the best.
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Mothers who work full time - they're the real heroes.
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I am just so thankful that my mom was a fantastic mom. She wasn't a stage mother; she didn't push me. She was happy if I was happy. We are so different. I was very shy; my mom did all the talking. She was my strength. She never expected that I would be this ballerina.
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As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
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I learned from an early age that my heritage, my love for people, and my desire to be a vehicle that can be used through my voice, that my expressions and actions can transport a person to experience a scene from the past, present and future.
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The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
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To oppose something is to maintain it.
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I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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Some people call it the 'Al Jazeera spirit' - courage, re-thinking authority, giving a voice to the voiceless. We have never been favored by the authority. The human being is the center of our editorial policy. We are not a TV station that rushes after stars, big names, press conferences, hand-shake journalism.
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I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.
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Everyone wants to psychoanalyze me. I don't know why.
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
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You can be funny and say what you mean; these ideas are not mutually exclusive. Some of the best jokes came from people who meant it. See: Pryor, Bruce, Carlin, etc.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.
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I hope to do big action movies and strong dramas, and to produce films. I also want to get kids more involved in what's going on in the world and to be politically active.
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Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.
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I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
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If die I must, let me die drinking in an Inn.
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At a certain point, you have to stop reading social.
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As we see the beauty of God and feel His weightiness in our hearts, our hearts begin to desire Him more than we desire sin. Before the Bible says,"Stop sinning", it says,"Behold your God".
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I used to drink a lot. I had to stop drinking because it was getting the better of me, and I replaced that with really doing shows.