Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (Colette) Quotes
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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
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Natural gas is a better transportation fuel than gasoline, so if that's the case, it's cheaper, it's cleaner and it's a domestic resource.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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Being a role model is about being true to myself.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.
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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
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That's the really neat thing about Dan Quayle, as you must have realized from the first moment you looked into those lovely blue eyes: impeachment insurance.
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Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.
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In Bollywood, you have to do one film at a time, and there are no mixed schedules. And doing four films at a time is out of the question. Telugu film industry works very differently. But the kind of films I'm getting here are better than what I've been offered in Bollywood.
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I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story.
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I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be.
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I parody myself every chance I get. I try to make fun of myself and let people know that I'm a human being, and these things that have happened to me are real. I'm not just some cartoon who exists and suddenly doesn't exist.
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A handkerchief can never be put in another pocket after it has been in one pocket. I don't walk under ladders. I have items of clothing that are lucky for me. That rotates, but I am luck-oriented.
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For me, it's very interesting to take one object and really dissect it to as many layers as possible.
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There are no black women geniuses that are being named in canons. I could name a bunch, but it's not part of common knowledge. It's not how the world is taught to think about black women.
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All down history nine-tenths of mankind have been grinding the corn for the remaining tenth, and been paid with the husks and bidden to thank God they had the husk.
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I challenged myself to carry on the style of guitar that my grandmother did: the Carter scratch.
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I used to visit kids with cancer all the time. Now I'm in the club. I understand what's happening to these little kids with brain cancer, and I ask myself, 'How do they make it through the day?' So you see a little 5-year-old and you say, 'If she can do it, I can suck it up.'
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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
