"I think if you try to tailor your act to anybody, you end up with an act that doesn't work anyway."

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Source : "Colin Quinn On Brad Pitt, Herman Cain, Comedy And Twitter". Interview with Jordan Zakarin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 12, 2011.

Colin Quinn

#Thinking Quotes #Trying Quotes #Tailors Quotes

“I'm for Simpson-Bowles. It doesn't raise taxes, it closes loopholes and takes the money we would give to a few people and put it on the debt”
“But it's a whole lot easier to keep[secrets] when you've got someone else who knows breathing in the same room. Carrying them alone is like having a huge spiky weight digging into your shoulders and chest, a weight you can't shift even while you're sleeping.”
“Into The Woods was... a lot of running around in the woods! I can't wait to see the show again. People didn't realize it back then, but kids still come up to me-young people-and they talk about it. It really made its mark.”
“The value of science is not simply what the next model of the iPod you will buy next week, but its real value comes about when it's time to distinguish reality from everything else. And to be scientifically literate is to be trained in what it is, to recognize your own frailty as a data-taking device.”
“All men are, at times, influenced by inexplicable sentiments. Ideas haunt them in spite of all their efforts to discard them. Prepossessions are entertained, for which their reason is unable to discover any adequate cause. The strength of a belief, when it is destitute of any rational foundation, seems, of itself, to furnish a new ground for credulity. We first admit a powerful persuasion, and then, from reflecting on the insufficiency of the ground on which it is built, instead of being prompted to dismiss it, we become more forcibly attached to it.”

Source : Charles Brockden Brown (1987). “Somnambulism and other stories”, Peter Lang Publishing
“In Athens I was 17 and I didn't have any expectations. I was just swimming fast and racing everybody. I didn't have the joy after my races in 2007. I didn't want to go to Beijing. I had to for sponsors.”
“Happiness and a positive attitude are gifts you can pass along. So get out there and start giving.”

Source : Denise Austin (2001). “Fit and Fabulous After 40: A 5-Part Program for Turning Back the Clock”, Broadway
“Nothing affected me until I heard Elvis. Without Elvis there would be no Beatles.”

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