Colin Hay Quotes
I had a very strange career. I mean I went from playing to 150,000 people in 1983/84. Three or four years later I was playing to four people, you know, in Melbourne. I thought - bit strange, you know bit odd, bit erratic.
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You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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Plays by people like Martin McDonagh and Brian Friel attract huge audiences, not because they're Irish, but because they're brilliant plays.
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I'm going to go to work out, and I'm going to enjoy it, and I'm going to eat really healthy. But I'm going to go to Vegas, and I'm going to stop at In-N-Out Burger, and then I'll be back on track.
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Events tend to recur in cycles.
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In general, while Trump has been a master of Twitter, he has shown an aversion to, and ignorance of, technology itself.
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When I got into college, I found what ultimately became my life's work. I couldn't sleep at night, I was so excited about it. So I'm attracted to people who play at that level. They actually want to play in their professional life.
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If my wife was to say, 'Honey, I'd like you to go to PSG', I would have to take it into account.
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When you know that people know who you are, you are always working - and not the work you want to do. You are sort of performing, because you know they are looking - or at least glancing - at you.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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If you ask me, over time, I am a believer in the Indian financial saving story getting stronger; a lot more savers are moving money away from gold and real estate into banks, mutual funds, insurance and equities.
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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
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The successful business executive can handle challenges and solve problems at a remarkable clip.
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I'm very good friends with my former coaches. We speak on the phone a lot.
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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We talk about institutions that are too big to fail - I think the story is as much about people who think they are too big to fail.
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If medicine was practiced in 1965 the way it's practiced today, there's no question that prescriptions would have been included in Medicare.
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'Nil By Mouth' was a bit autobiographical, but as I always pointed out at the time, that's not my dad.
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Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.
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There's nothing like reading about a world that feels dead to throw your own beautiful, colorful life into sharp relief.
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I had a very strange career. I mean I went from playing to 150,000 people in 1983/84. Three or four years later I was playing to four people, you know, in Melbourne. I thought - bit strange, you know bit odd, bit erratic.
