Colin Quinn Quotes
You know, the funny thing about Lorne and that show is that, you can go over one million things, but in a business of bean counters, he still likes to laugh at small things and creates a show around it.
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If you're going to maintain true authorities over a subordinate organization, you have to have some control over policy formulation of that organization and also the resources that are applied to it.
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It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.
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I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor blacks. I just thought there was a recognition that they lived differently - they primarily lived on the other side of town. And we're both poor, but that's kind of it. There wasn't much explicit statement of kinship or of the lack of kinship.
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I'm lucky that I have my family, I'm lucky that my parents are still together. Those are the things that I cherish.
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I've always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they'd give me the strength I needed.
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I have a garden, and I collect different heirloom seeds from different neighbors.
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My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
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At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
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Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
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No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
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There's also the tradition of voodoo, the Haitian magic arts, in New Orleans. And because New Orleans is below sea level, when they bury people in New Orleans, it's mostly above ground. So you have this idea that the spirits are more accessible and can access you more easily because they're not even buried.
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My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
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Endorphins are a very powerful thing.
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I used to be more self-conscious about style because when you're younger, you want to exist, you want to show everything you do.
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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution.
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You should not say it is not good. You should say you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe.
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I don't think you automatically become an enlightened person because you are a daddy. But they will change you, of course - their understanding of you puts you in a different place.
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Every song on '10 Day' is a completely different sound - the cadence, the flow, even the production - because I like so many different types of music and because my taste is so refined. 'Acid Rap' is another tape where every song sounds different.
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When you've dealt with real-life issues, dealing with business issues is not that hard.
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Funny but, for me, the Bible was a hobby before it was a serious study. It was the thing I'd sneak off and do on the side, feeling rather guilty because I wasn't doing my real school homework or whatever... and never thinking I would make it a life's work.
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You know, the funny thing about Lorne and that show is that, you can go over one million things, but in a business of bean counters, he still likes to laugh at small things and creates a show around it.
