Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (Colette) Quotes
In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
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The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.
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All you need to do to be my friend is like me.
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The thing that's changed the way I do my stand-up act is having kids and getting older and wiser and smarter. There might be a joke or two in the past that I wish I hadn't done, but in the past, you can't have it back.
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Shallowness and ignorance have been our lot in the mass consumer societies we inhabit, where we were too distracted to act politically, apart from periodically deputing political elites to take life-and-death decisions on our behalf.
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I always say when it comes to dream matches, that is not up to me: that's up to the WWE Universe. That's up to the fans. But there is a guy on 'SmackDown' that I have yet to wrestle yet that's certainly gonna happen at some point, and that's Randy Orton.
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Adam named the living animals, MaddAddam names the dead ones.
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The only risk is not taking the risk. You've got to take that step.
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I'm working my way toward divinity.
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I mean, can I really create a full, three-dimensional character? I don't know anymore. I'm certainly going to try.
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It's very scary to allow the world to see you.
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When I first entered the corporate world, doing good and making money were seen as separate and contradictory threads. Challenging that notion set my career - and life - on a new course.
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But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.
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Phil Collins sold five times as many records as I did. Does that make him nearly as influential as I am? Nope.
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I cannot remember my past, my nose, or the colour of my eyes, or what my general opinion of myself is. Only in moments of emergency, at a crossing, at a kerb, the wish to preserve my body springs out and seizes me and stops me , here, before this omnibus. We insist, it seems, on living. Then again, indifference descends.
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For before this I was born once a boy, and a maiden, and a plant, and a bird, and a darting fish in the sea.
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Whatever I gain from writing lyrics, I feel I lose a little bit for the musical aspect by having that lyrical burden on me. But when I'm liberated from worrying about the words, frankly, I feel I'm a better composer.
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Sometimes, when I am tired of so many oscillations, I look for refuge in a word which I begin to love for itself. Resting in the heart of words, seeing clearly into the cell of a word, feeling that the word is the seed of a life, a growing dawn... The poet Vandercammen says all that in a line: "A word can be a dawn and even a sure shelter."
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Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.
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I am trying to do my own thing, but there will always be comparisons, even if I don't agree with them.
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You can't live in New York City and be the most important person in town; you just can't. There are too many other important people here.
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In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
