Quote by Colin Quinn
I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then

I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty strong hand, and they fell from Afghanistan alone because Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. I guess you just cant sustain it. – Colin Quinn

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You cant make everybody laugh. You gotta just do what you think is funny. Just be obstreperous to everybody. – Colin Quinn

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funny
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Everybodys got a different sense of humor. Its just different styles. – Colin Quinn

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Humor
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Marie Antoinette was funny, Im sure she was just misinterpreted. You know the Let them eat cake line. She seems like she was kind of funny, like a Chelsea Handler or Kathy Griffin type. – Colin Quinn

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Solitude is strength to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines. – Paul Brunton

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alone

Look, the center right coalition in American politics today is best understood as a coalition of groups and individuals that on the issue that brings them to politics what they want from the government is to be left alone. – Grover Norquist

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alone

Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of thing. Its a cacophony, its like a madness I think thats been happening in the past twenty-five years. And I think anything that can help a person sit in a room alone and not worry about it is good. – Martin Scorsese

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alone

I mean Buckingham Palace has never hired a professional public relations outfit let alone a Madison Avenue type and they would throw up their hands in horror at the very idea. – Anthony Holden

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alone

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