Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (Colette) Quotes
Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
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I'd learned some things. I knew you weren't supposed to hold a good wine at the top - the paper bag falls off.
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What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.
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Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.
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I really had no great love for shoes. I was a working First Lady; I was always in canvas shoes. I did nurture the shoes industry of the Philippines, and so every time there was a shoe fair, I would receive a pair of shoes as a token of gratitude.
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Sometimes, the most daunting thing about performing is making eye contact with your audience, so just look above them and at the corners of the room. Soon, you'll totally forget they're there.
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It was despairing to find out that I am mortal.
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I didn't want to disrespect my parents, so I never played blues around the house. But I knew then, same as I know today, that I wasn't doing anything wrong. I think that before they died, they both felt very proud of me.
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A green economy begins to replace some of the clunking and chugging of ugly machines with the wise effort of beautiful, skilled people. That means more jobs.
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We now to peace and darknessAnd earth and thee restoreThy creature that thou madestAnd wilt cast forth no more.
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There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.
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Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.
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The single most important factor in our long-term happiness is the relationships we have with our family and close friends.
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Cloning interferon was not something I wanted to get into.
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One of the reasons I think the ultra right-wing has such power in this country is that no one talks out.
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When it comes to beach volleyball, we're playing in 100-degree-plus weather.
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It's very hard to not give in, to sell your soul: to flatter a more experienced male person of power, a producer or director, in order to get what you want. You feel a pressure to flutter your eyelashes and flirt because you know that will work, and I think it's admirable to not do that.
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A Hank Cochran song in the studio is spiritual. It's like singing a hymn in a church.
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I'm the author of several books, including children's books.
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Mercantile jealousy is excited, and both inflames, and is itself inflamed, by the violence of national animosity:...
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Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.
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Jealousy doesn't show how much you love someone, it shows how insecure you are.
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I've had the privilege of meeting and/or interviewing most of the top metal and hard rock artists at various points in my career and sharing their stories and music with millions of fans on air through TV and radio.
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I set myself up to be a bass guitarist and bass players get a lot more work than people like me.
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Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
