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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Here and elsewhere we shall not obtain the best insight into things until we actually see them growing from the beginning.
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The insight that peace is the end of war, and that therefore a war is the preparation for peace, is at least as old as Aristotle, and the pretense that the aim of an armament race is to guard the peace is even older, namely as old as the discovery of propaganda lies.
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With regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them.
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The soldier's body becomes a stock of accessories that are not his property.
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I go to bed when the kids go to bed because I get up when they get up at 5.
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Sometimes, all you can do is lie in bed, and hope to fall asleep before you fall apart.
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The biggest thing I've learned from my dad is he's had adoring crowds of 8,000 at Berkeley, and 6,000 at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University. That's an amazing feat to have people coming out in one of the most liberal universities and one of the most conservative.
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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
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The one who is happy can never get too early out of bed.
