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.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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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?
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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.
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
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You can't deny RCA's past and its history. I was also on Capitol Records, so I have that past history.
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Once you understand that listeners want to be challenged, then you also understand that you can't take shortcuts.
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I'm not sensitive, I'm not a weepy person.
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A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
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'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?
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
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In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.
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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.
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Only by the sweat of my own brow. I am a totally working man.
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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.
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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.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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Healing yourself is connected with healing others.
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Maybe I just wasn't a show-biz type. I didn't miss performing at all.
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My wife's trying to get me into yoga, and it's gonna take me a while, but eventually I'm gonna have to.
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I was driving in Formula Renault 2.0... with Daniel Ricciardo.
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A lot of American playwrights seem to have a career as a playwright. I don't consider it a career at all.
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The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
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I had a very erratic career. I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know?
