Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (Colette) Quotes
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
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We are a country of artisans and a country of manufacturing. I think Japanese textile technology is the best in the world.
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But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
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Ironically, the original Detroit Stock Exchange once sat less than a thousand feet from StockX headquarters here in downtown Detroit. It is only fitting that we are going to build the next iteration of the world's most efficient market invention almost in the same spot.
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My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.
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For me, choice is the most important thing because I'm going to be an adult actor pretty soon. So I've got to be choosing the right roles now so that by the time I get to that age there will be wide options available.
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Looking back on those days and little leaguer, the Hall of Fame is not even a blinking star, but through baseball travels and moving up the ladder, that star begins to flicker.
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The last thing I want my child to see is Dad running around in the middle of the pack. That would really upset me. And that would upset him. I would be embarrassed to take him to school with kids saying, 'Hey, how'd your dad do this weekend?' 'Well, he finished fifth or sixth'.
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Talking about covers, whether visually or sonically, if a particular combination of notes struck a chord in your heart in a way that you want to be a part of it by covering that song, then there's nothing wrong with it.
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Information on the Internet must be as free as in the newspapers.
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I was going from Furman to the University of Georgia. I transferred to play football.
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People have to realize that dieting is not a sprint, it's a marathon. If you celebrate the small victories, you will eventually win the war.
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The future is usually imagined as either better or worse than the present. If the imagined future is better, it gives you hope or pleasurable anticipation. If it is worse, it creates anxiety. Both are illusory.
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Fun without sell gets nowhere, but sell without fun tends to become obnoxious.
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I'm not a perfectionist at all. I find perfectionists boring because the real creative heart is in the mess somewhere.
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We went to Ibiza, and I was on Ritalin, and, for a kid who couldn't concentrate, I read a 200-page book on King Arthur, and my mum just hated it. She said it just wasn't me.
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Indian cinema needs all ingredients like emotion, action, sentiment and humour; it's not easy. It's easy to make a Hollywood film, as it goes with a pattern. Our cinema needs a lot of commercial ingredients. That's why I don't do many films.
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I feel I've made the transition from model to actress, but I'm not that secure about it. Lauren Hutton, Jennifer O'Neill - we all know that a few films don't mean all that much.
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I think it is very important to have a life off the court, and to me, it wasn't that hard to balance tennis and a relationship.
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As a result of the assault on Christianity, the Christian faith has been isolated more and more into a tiny private sector of life and removed from the whole public spectrum of America.
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I began reluctantly to steal from the present to pay off debts I knew I'd incur in the future.
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Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.
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Where I'm from is like 'Hustle & Flow' versus '8 Mile.' It's that really grimy, box-Chevy, dope-boy, working-class music.
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Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
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I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
