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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Fame is an odd thing. It bugs you a little bit, but it's really not bad.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
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The biggest thing that I hope people take away when they listen to my music is that they feel that there is an outlet being presented that allows them to be more authentic and for them to be more honest in their own lives.
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We are drowning in a sea of Myspace, blather, and too much information. Music is everywhere and nowhere. The independent record store is the solution, a place staffed by friendly (or not) people who are actually paid to weed through this crap and help you find the good stuff.
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She had little doubt that whatever happened to her on this drifting ship was of scant interest to a God who could allow her to reach this sorry state in the first place.
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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.
