Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (Colette) Quotes
On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us - ah! what a dream, to live in that! - the other stifles us at the first breath.
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I had 45 amateur fights, and I was able to win two national titles in those three years as an amateur.
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I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.
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When 'Ice Ice Baby' was selling a million records a day, I bought several properties: a home next to Michael J. Fox in L.A., a palace in Miami and a mountain cabin in Utah. Then, a few years later, I took a break from touring, saw that my properties had cobwebs, so I sold them, and - to my surprise - I made a huge profit!
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I really like to sometimes go into food detox and eat very simply.
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I'd like to think I'd never do a gratuitous fart joke.
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If anyone was going to write the definitive account of what the 2008 election meant for women, it would be Rebecca Traister.
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The football season is like pain. You forget how terrible it is until it seizes you again.
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Cyrus was observed to have more docility than any of his years and to show more submission to those of an advanced age than any other children, though of a condition inferior to his own.
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America, for me, is the country where, if you have something great to offer, you'll be valued highly.
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I have a bag with a toothbrush and toothpaste and all the things I might need during the day. I call the bag my trailer. Sometimes you don't have a trailer, so that's my trailer.
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I like shopping, and I like to drive.
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The morale when I came in was not the best. It was because the agency had not been valued.
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Unused to the situations in which I find myself, and embarrassed by the slightest difficulties, I seldom, till too late, discover how I ought to act.
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Just like the threat of mutually assured destruction from nuclear weapons, an extensive war in space would make space useless, and the decisions taken today will influence the use of space for many generations to come.
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From the beginning of physics, there have been those who imagined they would be the last generation to face the unknown. Physics has always seemed to its practitioners to be almost complete. This complacency is shattered only during revolutions, when honest people are forced to admit that they don't know the basics.
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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
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Any attempt to single out Islam would be a violation of the Constitution.
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Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
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It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to master a foreign language if you're not brought up with it.
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Online, I would never friend a random cute guy on Facebook or start liking his pictures on Instagram - even if I had a crush on him. But with Tinder, it's like following or friending each other at the same time. The risk of revealing your feelings is removed.
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On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us - ah! what a dream, to live in that! - the other stifles us at the first breath.
