Colin Mochrie Quotes
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Foreign policy should not be justified through making oneself feel good, but through results that have tangible consequences.
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My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.
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I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.
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My greatest regret is selling my company.
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It's kind of comfortable portraying characters who are kind of unsavoury and not so nice. That can be refreshing sometimes.
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Most fears are basic: fear of the dark, fear of going down in the basement, fear of weird sounds, fear that somebody is waiting for you in your closet. Those kinds of things stay with you no matter what age.
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The fans treated me royally.
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There are actors who can pull of a writer's lines; I am not competent enough to do that.
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I have a great life and I'm super active.
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Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist.
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
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There are a million studies that say the money you put into a kitchen and bath update you get back. That's one of those places you can't go wrong. It can be as simple as updating counters and a backsplash.
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I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer.
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But did I think it would last more than 13 episodes at the time? No, I didn't think that. I never know.
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I respect women to the utmost.
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Sausage-Seller: You demagogues are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime, their fishing is good; in the same way it's only in troublous times that you line your pockets. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
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'Jerry had an expensive public school education, so he doesn’t recognize Latin when he hears it,' said Joanna
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Could it be, he wondered, that the goldenness was the Hazers' life force and that they wore it like a cloak, as a sort of over-all disguise? Did they wear that life force on the outside of them while all other creatures wore it on the inside?
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I don't really... go to 'the opening of an envelope.' I don't really turn up to all the events, you know what I mean? If I'm involved, I'll go, and if there's a good friend who needs support, I'll go, but otherwise... I don't go. I'm probably just a bit like my grandparents; I like staying in.
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Ending the slave trade was contrary to British economic interests. For all its limitations and hypocrisies - British slavery itself, of course, still continued to exist - I still think it was a great moment in human history.
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But sometimes even the sky is dangerous. I look up and see your face in the stars.
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Give me liberty or a bran muffin!
