Colin Hay Quotes

I had a very erratic career. I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know?

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• Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Power
  • Plants
  • Be Prepared

• I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Nature
  • Think

• Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • People
  • Important
  • Religious

• It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Up
  • Long
  • Career

• We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Project

• You can't deny RCA's past and its history. I was also on Capitol Records, so I have that past history.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • History
  • Past
  • You

• Once you understand that listeners want to be challenged, then you also understand that you can't take shortcuts.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Want
  • You
  • Understand

• I'm not sensitive, I'm not a weepy person.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Person
  • Sensitive

• A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Life
  • Man
  • Single

• 'Hannity' had a a guy on that said, 'I fathered 20 kids by 14 mothers.' That is s cultural issue which has demeaned our society and has caused our society dearly in terms of imprisonment. Who's going to be the fathers to those children? Who's going to pay child support?

  

  Foster Friess
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Guy

• A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Moment

• In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Experience
  • Writer
  • Letter

• After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • World
  • War
  • Government

• Only by the sweat of my own brow. I am a totally working man.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Man
  • Working
  • Sweat

• Do people ever ask me to say 'Wow?' Never in interviews, but a few times on the street. I don't do it. I try to get away from them as quickly as possible and explain that I'm not a performing seal.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • People
  • Say
  • Street

• Yes, Heathrow is the U.K.'s busiest airport, but new runways or a new airport are not the answer. It is far better to focus on improving capacity.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Focus
  • Better
  • New

• The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Always
  • Serious
  • Data

• Healing yourself is connected with healing others.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Yourself
  • Healing
  • Moving On

• Democracy is about non-arbitrary decisions. Democracy is about spreading decisions; it is not about destroying processes.

  

  Rahul Gandhi
  • Democracy
  • Decisions

• I'm never going to be in something as commercially successful as 'Harry Potter' ever again. It's impossible. So that gives me incredible freedom to go off and make the slightly off-the-wall films that I want to make.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • Freedom
  • Wall

• In general, I think writing characters, no one is 100 percent good or bad, and certainly, the bad characters never think they're bad themselves. Even the worst characters don't feel like they're bad guys on the inside.

  

  Darren Star
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Bad

• I wasn't the one managing my career back then, that was the problem - I was 14 years old.

  

  Leif Garrett
  • Career

• Now I understand why people do drugs, why people drink, and why people go crazy. As the success level goes up and up and up, the further detached I get from everybody else. Luckily, with my girlfriend, everything is gravy because I brought her into it. I brought her in and she's very hands on with my career.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• I had a very erratic career. I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know?

  

  Colin Hay Men at Work
  • Career
  • Famous