Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (Colette) Quotes

If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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• It will be undertaken, of course, in the June or July summit, and then to bring NATO closer to Russia or vice versa is a way to move toward integration - toward the integration of Europe.

  

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• When I was a young actor in Vienna, already my hair was falling out at a rapid rate. I went to a doctor, who said hair was like grass: if you mow it, then it grows back stronger. So I went to Brittany, where nobody knew me, and I shaved my head. When it grew back - only the fringes!

  

  Otto Preminger
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• When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans can't afford, they are condemning good people to death.

  

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• I love black truffles. I love white truffles.

  

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• I do not take up a responsibility unless I am sure of putting my heart and soul into it.

  

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• I was just an animal lover. Everything that the Sam Simon Foundation does is supposed to help dogs and people - that's our mission.

  

  Sam Simon
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• But the safety of the world, in some sense, depends on your saying 'no' to inhumane ideas. Standing up for one's own integrity makes you no friends. It is costly. Yet defiance of the mob, in the service of that which is right, is one of the highest expressions of courage I know.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
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• You are not really bothered by what others think of you. You are bothered by what you think of yourself.

  

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• A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.

  

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• I try not to think about the things I can't control.

  

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• The African Americans' story is one that seems to be a repeated commitment to a scenario for success and failure. With each failure, the blow is that much more traumatizing until finally one reaches a point where there is to some degree an internalization, skepticism, fatalism, and expectation that it isn't going to work.

  

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• There are always new things to experience, internalize then write about. This process is ongoing with me. It never stops. The opportunity to reach new audiences with all of the music that we have made is thrilling.

  

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• We are particularly interested in the mental health programs and policies that support our troops and their families before, during, and after deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan.

  

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• Glories, like glowworms, afar off shine bright,But looked to near have neither heat nor light.

  

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• Eventually, when the universe expands enough, all that will be left is the dark energy.

  

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• I was so completely anxious before I had a child, but now my biggest worry is something happening to her, so anything other than that I can handle. That's not to say I'm calm, because that would be b****cks! I wish it were the case, but it's getting better as I get older.

  

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• I was just another long-haired teenage kid with visions of grandeur, strumming a tennis racket or a broom in front of his bedroom mirror.

  

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• I think it is important to be aware that the Internet has replaced the television, and has become a place where the uniformity of human society is accelerated.

  

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• Whosoever says truffle, utters a grand word, which awakens erotic and gastronomic ideas.

  

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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• Presently, we were aware of an odour gradually coming towards us, something musky, fiery, savoury, mysterious, - a hot drowsy smell, that lulls the senses, and yet enflames them, - the truffles were coming.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
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• Since, during storms, flames leap from the humid vapors and dark clouds emit deafening noises, is it surprising the lightning, when it strikes the ground, gives rise to truffles, which do not resemble plants?

  

  Plutarch
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  • Noises

• Perhaps dandruff is the excreta of the mind — the quantity of this material being directly proportional to the amount of reading one indulges in. A book on German metaphysics would thus easily ruin a dress suit.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
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• You're the one who held me up Never let me fall

  

  Celine Dion
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• If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.

  

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
  • Truffles