Colin Quinn Quotes
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I'm very punctual. I wish I could change this about myself because most people around me are not.
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Xenophobia is dangerous, but patriotism is a good thing.
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I feel like a 16-year-old trapped inside a dead woman's body.
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I do take responsibility for it. I admit to having a problem. I have been to numerous treatment centers.
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Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.
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My co-stars call me selfish. They say, 'You are only interested in yourself and what you are only interested is yourself and what you are doing in front of the camera.' I reply, 'I can't help it; it's what got me where I am.'
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I've been more or less vegetarian for about 40 years. Health diet really helps. I do meditation every day, and either yoga or sport several times a week.
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Here's the thing with the costumes for 'Mommy': Given the background and social strata that the characters come from, you can't really imagine that they've gone shopping lately, so we went for that very normcore, fashionless era in history, the early 2000s, which was completely transitional.
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I kind of make music where and when I can, and I guess that's why I collaborate so much.
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We can't answer King's assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him.
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People misinterpret what I say all the time: They think I'm being offensive, when really, I'm only being opinionated.
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There are certainly good examples of incredibly brilliant, beautiful music that has been made commercially available and sold everywhere. But I would say that, for the most part, quantity certainly does not speak well for quality.
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If the golden gate of preferment is not usually opened to men of real merit, persons of no worth have entered it in a most extraordinary manner.
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Much of the obscurity of our effort so far against terrorism originates in the now official idea that the enemy is evil and that we are (therefore) good, which is the precise mirror image of the official idea of the terrorists.
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So I think there is one rule every host and hostess ought to keep with the comb and nail file and bicarbonate and aromatic spirits on a handy shelf,Which is don't spoil the denouement by telling the guests everything is terrible, but let them have the thrill of finding it out for themselves.
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You tell me, since Independence, in the field of justice delivery, has so much work been accomplished anywhere? But, for news traders, these things perhaps are not saleable. Now you tell me if these things are pro-poor or not.
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We are to a large extent an imitative society.
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I decide that the East has definitely spoiled me for women.
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I go and see anything that's visually new, any technology that's about picture-making. The technology won't make the pictures different, but someone using it will.
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I never like to put myself in the stories; in 'Lost in the City,' there are fourteen stories, and there's only one, 'The First Day,' about a little girl going to school, that has anything to do with me.
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I've always had a problem with the average macho man - they've always been a threat to me.
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Sitting in an automobile was where I first remember understanding how drama works ... Hidden in the back seat of a sedan, I quickly realized how deep the chasm or intense the claustrophobia could be inside your average family car.
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I think everyone should own six guns, even though I don't own any.
