Colin Quinn Quotes
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I never thought that I would become a staple in the Australian cultural diet. The equivalent of bread or milk, or a fine old Tasmanian Mauve Vein. I think it's because I talk about things that people dare not mention. I don't mean raunchy things or unsavoury things. I call a spade a spade - I discuss things in a realistic manner.
Barry Humphries -
Because I was poor I had one special advantage. When you are poor, and basic survival is your concern, you have no alternative but to be an entrepreneur. You must take action to survive just as you must take action to seize an opportunity.
Naveen Jain -
Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
Though many corporations honor commitments to reduce dangerous pollution, some cut corners and cheat. The marketplace doesn't always have mechanisms to correct bad actors.
Frances Beinecke -
You either make dust or eat dust.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
I'm an artist at heart.
Lance Reddick
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
D. H. Lawrence -
Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.
Ira Glass -
You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.
Vin Diesel -
I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.
Larry Wall -
There's always hunger to create because I believe that's what I do. I believe that's what I'm supposed to be doing.
Garth Brooks -
Close friends consider me a literary snob.
Rabih Alameddine
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A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
Calvin Trillin -
A woman simply is, but a man must become.
Camille Paglia -
As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.
Landon Donovan -
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it sounds cliched - you do come out the other side better and stronger.
Kate Bosworth
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2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.
Oliver Platt -
I am someone who worries a lot. I'm always worrying 'what if?' Now I'm a mum - there will be worries for the rest of my life, but they're not about me anymore.
Penelope Cruz -
Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.
David Lodge -
We really refocused ourselves. I didn't want to live my life in a dark shadow all of the time.
Jacoby Shaddix Papa Roach -
I would say the consumer Internet companies - in a lot of ways, if you go inside the consumer Internet companies and you see how they run, it's how all their businesses are going to run.
Marc Andreesen -
Everybody's got a different sense of humor. It's just different styles.
Colin Quinn