Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (Colette) Quotes
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There is a huge reservoir of support for abortion rights from ordinary women. I hear all the time from women who had abortions and say it made possible the good life they went on to have. Social shaming silences too many.
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When I went to college, I was so focused on this new experience of my life that I really just pushed down all of my fears of hell and damnation.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
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I've got a clear line between work and real life.
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I feel like my life has always been the 'Hey Look at Me Show.' I'm not apologetic about that.
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We need to encourage young women to find what they love to do. That is a very valuable pursuit - more so than the pursuit of a boyfriend. When you have that core, you bring that core to every aspect of your life.
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Sometimes I have these fantasies of just moving to a foreign country and coming back with a full head of hair. Or not even come back! Make a new life there with hair... Change my name, just see what happens.
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I just love Bayonne. I love the parks. I love the pizzerias. I love the simple things in life, and it's all here.
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Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.
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The American people are not just being taxed to death; they're being taxed after death. But, no one should have to sell the life's work of a parent or a loved one just to pay the federal government.
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I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
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Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.
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You can do so much in ten minutes’ time. Ten minutes, once gone, are gone for good. Divide your life into 10-minute units and sacrifice as few of them as possible in meaningless activity.
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Sharing instructions about how to perform better for others is very different than sharing feelings about life experiences that make us happy or sad.
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Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life - it is bad to damage and destroy life. And this ethic, profound and universal, has the significance of a religion. It is religion.
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You can always keep learning with acting, because the school is life and yourself and your friends and your relationships. I'm fascinated by it! It's infinito!
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I have created a life style that supports contemplation, service to words.
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Whatever is destroyed, the act of destruction does not vary much. Beauty if vapour from the pit of death.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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Yes, I love playing Mom.
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Reality, by itself, becomes a story by Philip K. Dick.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
