Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (Colette) Quotes
Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again.
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You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.
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The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.
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It's really important, especially for young girls, to see that if you fall down, you get back up. If you get sick, you get back up. People are going to say what they want.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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I find that people in the food world are amazingly willing to talk about what they are doing, even when those things are quasi-legal or taboo.
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I invested all my money in debt.
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And for a very special group of people, we've provided their only job. I'm speaking of course of the disabled. They have stated they don't want a hand out just a hand. We are happy to give them one.
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The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film.
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I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank.
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I started playing guitar and writing songs when I was 15. I think what mainly sparked my interest was just the fact that I grew up listening to Cheryl King, Joni Mitchell, and James Taylor, and was just always inspired by that sort of organic art, and organic songs and just very natural songwriting that came out of some of those artists.
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Capitalism historically has been a very dynamic force, and behind that force is technical progress, innovation, new ideas, new products, new technologies, and new methods of managing teams.
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As you get older, you get more... genealogical.
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I had an awful lot to say in what I wore as Romana.
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We are nowhere forbidden to laugh, or be satisfied with food...or to be delighted with music or to drink wine.
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You might not remember what you had for dinner last night, but you remember everything about one particular summer of your youth. It's like that.
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I see the playwright as a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form.
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Credibility is someone else's idea of what I should be doing.
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In some families, parents don't read or don't have the money to spend on books.
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Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.
