Colin Quinn Quotes
The thing that drives me crazy is when comics say 'I have low self-esteem.' No you don't. You're standing on stage asking people to pay. You don't play an instrument. You want people to pay to hear what's in your mind. You don't have low self-esteem. You might have other problems.

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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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For many children, the library represents their only access to books, reading, and the Internet outside of their home. If you think about how far behind a child would be without access to these fundamental tools - tools that are vital to successful employment later in life - it's a travesty.
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There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the brighter side of my life.
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I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.
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The definition of a Schwarzenegger Republican is a Bush Republican who says he's a Schwarzenegger Republican.
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The health industry, the fitness industry, was really starting to pick up. This was around the mid 80's.
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The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.
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You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
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I knew boxing before I knew anything else.
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In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
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I'm addicted to making music, but I don't want to do it forever. I just want a farm. Farms make you happy.
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I would say that I quite consciously rely on my obsessions in all my work, that I deliberately set up an obsessional frame of mind. In a paradoxical way, this leaves one free of the subject of the obsession.
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I enjoy meat, but I can do without it.
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If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.
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People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whatever you're dealing with.
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Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.
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I follow a simple formula when I compose. I ask myself, 'What would the audience want to hear?' and 'Why would they buy my CDs?' And the process of answering these questions through music follows. Sometimes, it works. Sometimes, it backfires.
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I am going to enjoy some other things apart from business.
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The one who wanders independent in the world, free from opinions and viewpoints, does not grasp them and enter into disputations and arguments. As the lotus rises on its stalk unsoiled by the mud and the water, so the wise one speaks of peace and is unstained by the opinions of the world.
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The treatment of women in Muslim communities throughout the world is unconscionable. All civilized nations must unite in condemnation of a theology that now threatens to destabilize much of the Earth.
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Extreme liberalism is not a political philosophy. It is a mental disorder.
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I would so much like young people to have a sense of the gift that they are. Not many of them feel like that.
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The thing that drives me crazy is when comics say 'I have low self-esteem.' No you don't. You're standing on stage asking people to pay. You don't play an instrument. You want people to pay to hear what's in your mind. You don't have low self-esteem. You might have other problems.