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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I know that I've played a lot of comedic roles. It's a visual medium. When you get one role, you start to get cast in that role for awhile because that's what people have seen you do, and have hopefully seen you do it successfully.
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There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.
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Truth comes to us mediated by human love.
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So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.
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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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Never judge a stranger by his clothes.
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I will not be violent," I chant-mutter. "I will not be violent. I am peaceful and good. I do not want to give anyone the finger.
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If I'm president, some day, young kids will look at the world differently. They will say, I could be president some day. They couldn't have said that before I came along. The world will see the United States in a different context, as a country of true opportunity for all.
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I've thought about doing other dramatic roles besides westerns, but I grew up in the West and I know the West.
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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.
