"The mistake that people make in stand-up is……" — Colin Quinn
"The mistake that people make in stand-up is thinking they're profound or they're deep when there are so many people who have more worthwhile ways of phrasing things."
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44 Quotes by Colin Quinn
Colin Quinn has 44 quotes on this site.
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Everybody's funny in different ways.
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Everybody says before reviews come out, 'Oh, reviews don't matter,' just in case they're bad; everyone want to brace themselves.
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I always wanted to write as much as perform.
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I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty…
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I think everyone should own six guns, even though I don't own any.
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I get the impression the English kings were witty, for some reason. I feel like all you had was your…
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I think if you try to tailor your act to anybody, you end up with an act that doesn't work…
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I know nowadays the common wisdom is to celebrate diversity as long as you don't point out that people are…
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I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write
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It’s sad. Marxism didn’t work. Communism didn’t work. Capitalism doesn’t work. Nothing works. Even democracy doesn’t work. Democracy-the greatest form of…
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The only people who like to live alone more than comics are priests.
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It was tumultuous, it was crazy, but I would not trade it for anything.
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I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your…
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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in…
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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The effect of prizes on one's career - if that is what to call it - is considerable, since they…
— John Banville
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Meditation state is a place of deep relaxation where you can pinpoint the things you do and to set a…
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Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself…
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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away,…
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Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it…
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Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in…
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I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way.
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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love…
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