Columbus Short Quotes
Sometimes you get yourselves in situations where you don't realize people are actually testing you. People are actually provoking you.
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You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room.
Larry Hagman
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Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.
Ted Nugent
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We as children went up the mountain to find feed for livestock, like goats, cows and horses, and because in the winter time we would light the fire in the house, we would climb the mountain to collect firewood as well. Because of that, I suppose I became used to climbing mountains.
Tamae Watanabe
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
Pankaj Mishra
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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
Imre Lakatos
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I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
Imelda Marcos
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There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control.
Iris Chang
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If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.
Barbara Castle
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You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
Oliver Reed
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
Quintilian
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
Barry Diller
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'Freaky Ali' may look like an easy role to others, but it is not easy.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
H. L. Mencken
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Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.
Lady Gaga
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Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.
Dan Millman
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Christmas cookies can't help but be retro - they are memory first, sugar-flour-egg-redhot-gumdrop-sparkle reality second.
Dana Goodyear
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Sometimes I still go round the house making weird noises and stuff, so in that aspect, I haven't grown up!
Adam Peaty
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Essentially what photography is is life lit up.
Sam Abell
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As more men become more educated and women get educated, the value system has to be more enhanced and the respect for human dignity and human life is made better.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
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'Ugly Betty' has been the most important thing I've ever done, easily. I was able to do more with one character than I can ever imagine doing again - Hilda was hilariously funny and emotionally deep... I really got to showcase what I could do with a character.
Ana Ortiz
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As an educator, I try to get people to be fundamentally curious and to question ideas that they might have or that are shared by others. In that state of mind, they have earned a kind of inoculation against the fuzzy thinking of these weird ideas floating around out there.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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If people want to see me in comedies, that's fine with me.
John C. Reilly
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I have a terrible tendency to lick my fingers when I cook. So much so that I got a telling off from my pastry teacher years ago, who said it would hinder my prospects.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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Sometimes you get yourselves in situations where you don't realize people are actually testing you. People are actually provoking you.
Columbus Short