Colin Salmon Quotes
I can't take 24-hour news. Life is what it is, and we can handle it, but when you're getting it pushed down your throat, it's too much.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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The term 'personal ambition' immediately puts me off. It feels like finding a sliver of onion in my ice cream. There's nothing wrong with a sliver of onion, but I don't want it in my ice cream.
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I've got a PowerPoint deck that I use for internal presentations, and there's a slide on it that asks, 'What percentage of your game is combat versus exploration versus puzzle solving versus platforming,' and I refuse to answer that question.
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It's important to wallow and grieve when you have a health issue. I don't think you really get the best stuff out of life until you've had the worst stuff.
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I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.
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My creativity all comes from the same place. I wear one very comfortable, large hat.
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Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.
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Football was what I was good at, and it was what I loved.
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If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
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I remember when President Bush, George W. Bush, came into office, he focused on No Child Left Behind, and with - and before very long, suddenly, Republicans were thought of as being as interested and as competent in education as Democrats, and why? Because they were talking about it and doing something about it.
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I actually find a lot of parallels in jazz and cartooning.
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Most reporters are so transactional rather than strategic.
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Don't listen to what other people say about you negatively!
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Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.
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Velvet is great. It's warm as well. And it's snug.
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My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I've done that and I couldn't be happier.
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Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.
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Not only do I admire Jordan's accomplishments and his phenomenal basketball ability, but also the way he has conducted himself on and off the court. I don't think there will ever be another player to have the same impact on the game of basketball as Michael Jordan.
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America has not produced a more salient political musician than Gil Scott-Heron.
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To take in a new idea you must destroy the old, let go of old opinions, to observe and conceive new thoughts. To learn is but to change your opinion.
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No theory of the universe can be satisfactory which does not adequately account for the phenomena of life, especially in that richest form which finds expression in human personality.
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I can't take 24-hour news. Life is what it is, and we can handle it, but when you're getting it pushed down your throat, it's too much.
