Colin Cunningham Quotes
I just want to see a good movie. Fortunately, good movies come in all sorts of genres.
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I like the fact that Austin's the first place I've ever lived where there's a real sense of community. People care about their neighbors.
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Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time.
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Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you.
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The United States is a low-trade - low-tariff country.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
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There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.
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In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it.
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I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something.
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College dropouts with significant debt struggle with repayment over the course of their lives and do not receive the benefits afforded to their peers who have debt but obtain higher-paying jobs as a result of college completion.
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I had what AA calls 'a convincer' – which made me realize that I couldn't do it any more. I went out drinking for about 70 hours here in London. At the end I knew I was done.
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I walk around every day with a radio playing constantly in my head, and this radio station plays a lot of hits. But it's all my songs, so that's something to be excited about 24 hours a day.
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Thoughts are mental energy; they're the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don't want.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.
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I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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I would like to have the original ending to my Lord of the Rings instead of the one they released. In my original cut I had the victory at Helm's Deep as the final sequence.
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I look for someone whose upbringing was somewhat similar to mine because they can understand me - love for the family and everything else. You see someone's relationship with their parents, and you realize what that person's going to be like as a parent.
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A good system shortens the road to the goal.
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Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.
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Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got to keep going.
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I just want to see a good movie. Fortunately, good movies come in all sorts of genres.
