Colm Wilkinson Quotes
My favorites are songs that I get an emotional charge from, whatever genre they're in.
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.
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When talking about writing, I often use the analogy of archaeology. There are these great tunes all around. Your skill as a musician allows you to pick them out without breaking them.
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It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I had my group of friends, you know, like my real group of friends, and then I had, like, party friends.
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Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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The hard-core Left loves ridiculing Christians who believe scripture that says, 'God created the heaven and the earth.' They say that it's anti-science to believe that an almighty God would do such a thing.
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Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
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We're looking for people out there who have demonstrated that they are leaders, have track records of achievement, and want to be part of a force... of a much larger force of determined people who want to bring about, ultimately, institutional change.
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Supergirl is such an iconic brand, and for me to be able to be the new face of it is extremely exciting.
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I tried to be a goth for a while. I'd pour baby powder on my face and paint my lips black, but that didn't last long. I thought I looked cool at the time. But then you look back and wonder, 'Why did anyone let me out of the house looking like that?'
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I am through with baseball forever. I have my farm and my home and enough to take care of me, so why should I work and worry any longer?
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The grand saga of how humans spread across the globe will need some amendments and annotations – rendezvous here, elopements there, and the commingling of genes most everywhere.
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Love food and I love to eat.
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I always thought that there was something in hip-hop culture that was the misfit of all the musical styles, where they didn't really belong. They're kind of like, 'No, we're a real culture! We're not going anywhere, you can't get rid of us!' I really liked that there was a rebelliousness about it. I connected with that.
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The consumption and production of energy is a major component of the global economy.
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Over the years, if you look at the films of people like Billy Wilder, Preston Sturges, Frank Capra, their supporting characters, even if it's a doorman with two lines, always seem three-dimensional. To me, that's a sign of good storytelling.
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My dad always believed in me. He was always kind of, 'All right, buddy, if that's what you want to do...' My mom was always more of a realist.
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My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.
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The FCC should obviously not propose bad rules that will be struck down; it should propose good rules that will be upheld.
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I was never interested in playing him with a big red S on his chest. I’m much more attracted to the underbelly stuff. Gibbs is a loner, with emotional scars a mile deep that run in a million different directions. At work, he’s a leader. But who is he if you take away his job? I play him, and even I don’t know the answer to that.
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My favorites are songs that I get an emotional charge from, whatever genre they're in.
