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 would have to have some tragedy and romance in my life, but I've actually had a very cushioned, caring upbringing. I'm desperately seeking some edge. Maybe I'll find it one day.
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There are some who believe that secularism and Islam are not compatible. But Muslims should show everyone that this is not the case. It's up to them to show that you can be French and Muslim and still respect secular rules.
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I don't usually make political comments, because I am a businessman, not a politician.
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There's a lot of people desperately seeking to find 'the one,' and I think we should learn to be more at peace with ourselves.
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I had no idea that what I thought was my low wasn't really my low. That's what a lot of people think - then life reminds them, 'No, there's lower.'
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Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty's sake and pulls it down to earth.
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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.
