Colin R. Davis Quotes
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Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.
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In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.
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We have to be careful not to have a form of militant secularism in our country, which is counter-productive for children we would like to see - adhere - to secularism.
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Being an offensive lineman, you always have the mindset of being an unsung hero - a lot of the people who look at the game follow the ball.
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I've always been fascinated by Disneyland and Disney World, and my favorite part of the park was always Tomorrowland.
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I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.
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I don't really care how I sound.
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Although I'm not from London originally: I moved down here when I was 16, so it's played a part in my life. It's where I've lived for all that time.
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No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.
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Of course there may well be particular reasons why Spencer rather than others is dead, as there were also particular reasons why he rather than others made such a stir.
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That's the mantra I use when the team tells me something is too complicated. People keep saying, 'We need more prioritization.' I say, 'Guys, what you want is less work. And that is not going to happen.'
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Modeling was never anything that was a career choice. I did catalog work in Toronto to make money so that I could go to school.
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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19?
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific.
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Dude, I turn into a six-year-old when I come to Disneyland. It's amazing. My eyes glass over and my blood pressure goes down. I'm just like everybody else. I turn into a big kid when I come here. It's the happiest place on earth, right?
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I've never had a very great public life.
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The law of simplicity and naivety applies to all fine art, for it is compatible with what is most sublime.
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When I was 6, I opened my mouth and didn't stop singing. I had a voice and wanted to use it.
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I understand our audience loves to see some drama on TV, but even they have got bored with similar patterns of carrying out reality singing shows.
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People think that I popped out of my mother's womb singing 'Chasing Pavements'.
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I respect orders but I respect myself too and I do not obey foolish rules made especially to humiliate me.
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Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing.