Colin Hanks Quotes
I eventually thought, this is the only thing I could do as a profession, I can't really do anything else.
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I'd love to be 'People Magazine''s Sexiest Man Alive, but I think that that's a ways off. I have to stop wearing sweat pants, and then we'll work on that.
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The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within.
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I think country needs to have a sporting culture. I think if sports were taken as curriculum in school and are encouraged in right way like government of Maharashtra and Haryana have done given Marks for Sports and encouraging them with good jobs.
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My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.
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E-Verify is a very commonsense reform that we can implement here in the state of Florida. I think I share a lot of Floridians' frustration that it didn't pass and a lot of the politics that were taking place behind the scenes.
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As someone who is in awe and grateful every day to be in a country where freedom of the press, free speech and free elections are a way of life, I am wowed, amazed and excited by the opportunity to moderate a 2012 presidential debate.
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I was always looking for evidence of these common musical roots, but I was too young to know that what I was doing was called ethnomusicology.
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You cannot survive if you do not know the past.
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I think life would be so much funnier if every day you saw someone walking down the street getting hit in the head by a monkey, don't you?
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The day I became a hero, my dream was realised. Everything else is a bonus.
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I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction.
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I like to make my name of songs strange.
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Fall of the Berlin wall? Being there was fun. Nations that flaked off of the Soviet Union in southeastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus? Being there was not so fun.
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I never work from an outline, and often I don't know how the story will end.
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Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
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I am somebody who is constantly hungry to nibble on something.
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Even the dumber parts of our government are not run by idiots. These are ordinary people like us, doing a job. By and large, they're trying to do it as well as they can. Or at least as often as people in the private sector try to do as well as they can.
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Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.
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I didn't have that many friends my first few years of high school. It was very cliquey and I'm super shy, so it was hard to make friends.
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I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.
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Later, in the afternoon, I read what I did that morning. It's almost always a surprise. But I can read it rationally; edit, polish, re-write, and think what I might do tomorrow in the early darkness.
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Every time I come to Europe, I'm just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world, and I especially love the fans.
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Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries.
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I eventually thought, this is the only thing I could do as a profession, I can't really do anything else.
