Claudette Colbert Quotes
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I started looking at fashion magazines, specifically 'British Vogue.' I was reading a lot about Cecil Beaton. Then I thought maybe I should start collecting.
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Our life ripples out, and it has influence. That's why it's important that we're at our best and that we're influencing others for the good.
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I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.
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As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day.
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Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.
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Foucault is one of many who want a new conception of how power and knowledge interact. But he is not looking for a relation between two givens, 'power' and 'knowledge.' As always, he is trying to rethink the entire subject matter, and his 'knowledge' and 'power' are to be something else.
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President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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I need to meet people to be able to write.
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People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas.
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Above all, we must avoid the pitfalls of tribalism. If we are divided among ourselves on tribal lines, we open our doors to foreign intervention and its potentially harmful consequences.
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You lay out a plan and - say a three-year plan or a two-year plan - and say, 'This is what we can do. We can do the transportation packages, like the highway bill and the water bill, and we can do some of these other areas - a farm bill - whatever it is, we lay out a schedule, and we put that committee to work to do that.'
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Brunch, for me, is an extended breakfast that should be enjoyed whenever you have time properly to engage in cooking and eating.
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At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy poets, and I came to view my early subjects through that prism.
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Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.
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It was not until I was in my forties, in the fifth decade of my life, that the sense of place, the spirit of place, became of paramount importance to me. It was then that I began my travels, that I discovered, through photography, the quality of light, and that I gradually became able to paint the mood of place.
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When you're the best, you only want to surround yourself with the best.
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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
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College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back.
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Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human.
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But they can't know how the dark space inside me is growing. I lie to them. I can't get out of the dark hole. 'Peace is here' it whispers.
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It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it.
