Colbie Caillat Quotes
We all look in the mirror and name the things that we don't like about ourselves or wish we could change. Instead, name the good things and focus on that!
Quotes to Explore
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When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
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Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.
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You don't always get to work as much as you like, because I'm waiting to find things that I care about. Sometimes that's frustrating.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.
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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.
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Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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I tend to have a lot of jokes about ex-girlfriends. They always ask me if they will be the subject of a joke, and I always tell them they won't. Unless they do something crazy. They all tend to, so you know where that goes. There are no closed doors. The 'art' will suffer.
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Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
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At the end of OK Computer we were playing big, big arenas and it wasn't right. You can do those things occasionally but at the time it didn't feel right.
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I've been acting since age 8. I just stopped enjoying it as much as I used to.
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This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.
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Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.
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I did TV for a bit, and somewhere along the line, I started writing a column for 'The Independent' newspaper in England, and now I write features for 'British Vogue.'
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I'm the first person in my family to go to college.
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The band was rejuvenated by that wonderful day. It breathed new life into us.
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We all look in the mirror and name the things that we don't like about ourselves or wish we could change. Instead, name the good things and focus on that!
