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 like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
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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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There are, basically, three kinds of people: the unsuccessful, the temporarily successful, and those who become and remain successful. The difference is character.
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I love the nostalgic myself. I hope we never lose some of the things of the past.
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I can't watch the news anymore. They have their priorities all out of whack. All I see is Natalee Holloway and Britney Spears and the war in Iraq. Where's the substantive news? Where's the Zach Braff coverage?
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I am just this small-town Canberra girl that's taken riding a little kid's bike on dirt tracks to the highest level.
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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.
