Camilla Collett (Jacobine Camilla Collett) Quotes
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I do try to structure everything in a way that's very much like a pop song. I try to keep the arrangements really simple, just to make everything essential.
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Considering all the legal hassle child stars can be, I won't be surprised when they are phased out by CGI children voiced by adult actors.
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The idea behind diet confusion is, you have to keep your body off-kilter. So by changing the type of foods that you eat, the frequency of the foods that you eat, you can keep your metabolism revved up.
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Fortunately or not, expectations are always high for all my films.
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The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.
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The President then proceeded to read his Emancipation Proclamation, making remarks on the several parts as he went on, and showing that he had fully considered the whole subject, in all lights under which it had been presented to him.
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I've been an amateur photographer since my teens.
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It's the sweetest thing to be a parent of a daughter. When they hit their twenties, they become these lovebugs that come back. It's just so sweet.
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When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
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You could not receive a young man in your room; you might be permitted to have him to tea in one of the public reception rooms, but you could accept no invitation from young men to tea or other entertainment without a chaperone from the College.
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The powerful notion of entropy, which comes from a very special branch of physics … is certainly useful in the study of communication and quite helpful when applied in the theory of language.
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During one of my treks through Afghanistan, we lost our corkscrew. We were compelled to live on food and water for several days.
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If patience and gratitude had been she camels, it would have mattered little on which I rode.
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When you educate a woman, you set her free. Had I not had books and education in Mississippi, I would have believed that's all there was.
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I find that vegetables like butternut squash, which I feel unexcited about as a side dish, I'm thrilled to eat in a soup.
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Sometimes I start with the beat. Sometimes I can write something down and it takes me a while to figure out how I want to say it or the beat I want to say it to. I definitely like to live the experiences that I cover.
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The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home.
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There are certain inessential activities-moths of precious time-and it is worse to busy yourself with the trivial than to do nothing.
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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
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He who achieves power by violence does not truly become lord or master.
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We counsel you, young men, not to pollute your minds with such degrading matter, for the mind through which this filth passes is never the same afterwards. Don't see R-rated movies or vulgar videos or participate in any entertainment that is immoral, suggestive, or pornographic. Don't listen to music that is degrading.
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I can't imagine not having a reason to get out of bed at night.
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The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that—and he must be about His Father’s Business, the service of a vast, vulgar and meretricious beauty.
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The one who is happy can never get too early out of bed.
