Colm Wilkinson Quotes

I grew up in a very musical family, but music was not encouraged as a career. It was a hobby.

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• The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Time
  • World
  • True

• Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • People
  • World
  • Bad

• It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or later the standard of living of the poor country will go up towards that of the rich country.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Up
  • Country
  • Together

• I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Think
  • Attention
  • Push

• Honestly, I find the analysis of dreams is one of the dullest things. I say this as a therapist kid. I find them deeply uninteresting, as a window to the soul.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Soul
  • Dreams
  • Window

• We will win an election when all the seats in the House and Senate and the chair behind the desk in the Oval Office and the whole bench of the Supreme Court are filled with people who wish they weren't there.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • House
  • Wish

• Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.

  

  Larry King
  • School
  • Ahead
  • Graduated

• We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.

  

  Daniel Drew
  • Want
  • Relationship
  • Marriage

• I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Girl
  • Like
  • Serious

• I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Work
  • English
  • Literature

• If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • You
  • Guitar
  • Construction

• If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • May
  • Style
  • Failure

• I'm thankful that I have lived long enough to become a legend, and I hope I deserve it.

  

  Ralph Stanley
  • Long
  • Hope
  • Thankful

• We would like to make it quite clear that we are not migrants into the U.K. But we are the citizens of a state that belongs to the European Union who can take jobs anywhere freely within the European Union.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Like
  • Citizens
  • Take

• I had grand visions of being in professional sports. But when reality set in, I went, 'Oh, OK. I'll just move to Hollywood and be an actor.' I didn't want to look back on my life and wonder, 'What if I had done this? Or I had done that?'

  

  Bailey Chase
  • Life
  • Done
  • Reality

• You're going to change as you grow older, and that messes up a lot of relationships.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Up
  • Change
  • Relationships

• To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Music
  • Children
  • Happy

• You don't want to be first, right? You want to be second or third. You don't want to be - Facebook is not the first in social media. They're the third, right? Similarly, you know, if you look at Steve Jobs' history, he's never been first.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • History
  • Media
  • Social Media

• I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing.

  

  Jonathan Coe
  • Writing
  • Alone

• The goalkeeper plays in a psychological position, and he's dealing with mental things. I wanted to describe the things I've done wrong and, most of all, what I've done right, so that other people, including those in other professions, could learn from my experiences.

  

  Oliver Kahn
  • Position
  • Psychological
  • Goalkeeper

• Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • People
  • Want
  • Gossip

• Sheer animated fantasy is still my first and deepest production impulse.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Fantasy
  • Impulse
  • Sheer

• When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Effort

• I grew up in a very musical family, but music was not encouraged as a career. It was a hobby.

  

  Colm Wilkinson
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