Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (Colette) Quotes
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The talent curve in game-making is going straight up to Heaven.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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Because I'm a designer, I'm quite good when I shop. I know what I'm looking for.
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I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.
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I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.'
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There's been no real reason to move to LA. The stuff I've done for America has been done in Europe anyway. We made a decision early on that we'd find our base and not shake the children's world as much as mine.
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We try to write things that work on a variety of levels at the same time: A sleek exterior with a turbulent lyric.
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I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it.
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I started as an engineer. I migrated to philosophy and international politics. And I did my studies about African – Africa democracy and democratization in Africa, taking Kenya as a model. And then, while I was doing so in 1996 in South Africa, Al Jazeera was established. So they requested me to be an analyst on African affairs.
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If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy is the theory that x × y is less than y.
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Forget the infinities: Concentrate on detail.
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Don't do that... By the way, this is not Oprah furniture; you jump on this, and it will be firewood... Oprah's got the real thing, this stuff...this is about as real as that points to cityscape backdrop right there.
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Windin' your way down on Baker Street,Light in your head and dead on your feet.Well another crazy day,You'll drink the night awayAnd forget about everything.This city desert makes you feel so cold.It's got so many people, but it's got no soul.And it's taking you so longTo find out you were wrong,When you thought it had everything.
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The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greatest part of skill, dexterity, and judgment with which it is any where directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour.
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I'm strong-willed. Architects are strong-willed. You get the best results with a strong client and a strong architect working together.
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When I was 15, my mom and I packed everything up and moved to Nashville so I could pursue my dream in music.
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Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.
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To run away from danger, instead of facing it, is to deny one's faith in man and God, even one's own self. It were better for one to drown oneself than live to declare such bankruptcy of faith.
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The German people are not a warlike nation. It is a soldierly one, which means it does not want a war, but does not fear it. It loves peace but also loves its honor and freedom.
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Not just a timely movie, a great one...Timbuktu feels at once timely and permanent, immediate and essential.
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We need to support new organizing strategies for employees who too often have never had the benefit of collective bargaining, and we have to resist the assault on workers' rights.
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Giving builds loyal customers and turns those customers into supporters...You can find passion and profit and meaning all at once, right now.
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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
