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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I think it would be bizarre to pick somebody to speak at the convention based on their sexual preference, because once you go down that road, why don't you pick a transvestite?
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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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The making of the far-famed New York Central Park was opposed by even good men, with misguided pluck, perseverance, and ingenuity, but straight right won its way, and now that park is appreciated. So we confidently believe it will be with our great national parks and forest reservations.
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When I got home from The Ozzfest in September 2000 with Methods... I just locked myself in my house and I started writing.
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One nuclear war is going to be the last nuclear - the last war, frankly, if it really gets out of hand. And I just don't think we ought to be prepared to accept that sort of thing.
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Ideally, I want us to be working on things where if we're not working on them, they won't happen; companies where if we don't fund them they will not receive funding.
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Never just run through a study because you happen to be familiar with it, but use it to see what you can get from it on this new day which has been granted you.
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I'm not a big method actor. I'm much more superficial.
