Colin O'Donoghue Quotes
Not to belittle what we do as actors, but my wife Helen is a teacher, and she makes a real difference to kids. So it's unusual to see people thinking of us as something special.
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During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.
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I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
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You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
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I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.
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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fails to immediately achieve what the American people want, and that is a complete reversal of Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions that have allowed corporations and the wealthy few to drown out the voices of everyday voters.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind.
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Truth comes to us mediated by human love.
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We asked our friends and relations to lend us their children, and, because we lived in London, children loved to come and stay for their half-term holidays.
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I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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I always want to become better. If never being satisfied is a problem, then I have it. At least it's a good problem.
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I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers.
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By patriotism I mean the welfare of the whole people, if I secure it at the hands of my opponent, I should bow down my head to him.
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We keep asking for answers; God keeps sending us people.
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When there's a war, people get married.
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You're more constrained when you're wealthy. Or when you're making a bigger film and people complain about no budgets; but having a small amount of money to make a film means you're at your absolute freest to express yourself as an artist.
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Well I think they broke the mould when they made me and being humble is one of my great assets.
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Not to belittle what we do as actors, but my wife Helen is a teacher, and she makes a real difference to kids. So it's unusual to see people thinking of us as something special.
