Colin Quinn Quotes
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They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
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I'm obsessed with 'Scandal.' I love, love, love it. I've gotten to meet all of the cast at this point, and they're all so, so nice.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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I've been telling my students, 'Imitate, imitate.' And they say, 'Well, what if I plagiarize, or what if I'm not original? I want to be myself.' And I always tell them, 'Your self will shine through'... If you allow yourself to feel deeply and honestly, what you say won't be like anyone else.
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The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief.
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We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.
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I may play some exhibition games so I don't want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it's a firm decision not to play competitive chess anymore.
Garry Kasparov -
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin.
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From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.
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I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.
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Cotton Mather's publications in his own lifetime amounted to more than 400 titles, and his magnum opus, on which he labored most of his life, remains unpublished: a commentary on every verse of every book of the Bible. Anyone who leaves that kind of record behind issues an irresistible invitation to historians.
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Government can supply bread, but it can't mend a broken spirit.
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People would pay money to work at CNN.
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Trying to be smarter, work smarter, and just take care of my body more and more.
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I liked playing in Chicago, and I gave them everything I had, but I knew in my heart I was a Red Wing.
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Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination.
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Everything, at first, is an idea, a special creation.
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But for fatherhood advice, try to look your child in the eye.... Get to know their name; that becomes important when you want something. And remember to feed them. That's about all you need.
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I have a tendency, just because I'm an ambitious person, to get impatient with things and want them to be moving faster then they are.
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I used to love eating canned fruit. Once I learned how to read a food label, I learned that canned fruit is arguably the least healthy form of fruit consumption.
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I go to bars and restaurants, and I sit and I eavesdrop on people and I watch people in shopping centers and, you know, I read the newspapers and I talk to the Trenton cops, and I just get a lot of information that comes in that somehow turns into a book.
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Those early days of comedy are when you get addicted to it.
