Colin Quinn Quotes
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As an author, I really hate a reader like me. There's no loyalty.
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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We hope that the elected officials will respond positively to a ground swell of letters, phone calls, e-mails and visits from parents. The law clearly states that the responsibility for giving a sound basic education to our children lies with New York State.
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My reward in life for growing up a little bit was that Mary Steenburgen came into my life, and we have been together for 19 years.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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Good design is good business.
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I guess because of my act, people think that I say things they want to say, and that they can just come up and say anything to me.
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A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
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The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
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I have a love for boxing.
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Both dreams and neurotic dream-states have as their function the avoidance of displeasure, but the dream-states also serve to provide a positive pleasure gain.
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I think I am a complete player. I can play well on all the surfaces. For me, the clay might be easiest, but I am not a specialist on clay.
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Can't get up in the morning lately and I'm just sunk in a dream I'm always the ship in the stream
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Fear is the brother of hate.
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Look for competence not claims.
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I have to say that in 1981, making those decisions, I felt like I was providing enough freedom for 10 years. That is, a move from 64 K to 640 K felt like something that would last a great deal of time. Well, it didn't - it took about only 6 years before people started to see that as a real problem.
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For me the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged by an overriding passion.
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Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
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I had a horrible heart attack and still have symptoms of that sometimes. Then cancer, which is in remission. But the stroke is the hardest thing because I just lost my ability to speak and to write.
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A thousand for his love expired each day, And those who saw his face, in blank dismay Would rave and grieve and mourn their lives away- To die for love of that bewitching sight Was worth a hundred lives without his light. None could survive his absence patiently, None could endure this king's proximity- How strange it was that man could neither brook The presence nor the absence of his look!
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Favorite Bat-gadget was probably the Batboat, because it was fun to get out on the ocean and run that thing around at high speed.
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In a democratic country, when a man is accused, he's accused from a document issued by the public attorney.
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Young people are thoughtless as a rule.
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I'm not a big method actor. I'm much more superficial.
