Claudette Colbert Quotes

Audiences always sound like they're glad to see me, and I'm damned glad to see them.

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• Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Myself
  • Trust
  • Weird

• When you're a caregiver, you need to realize that you've got to take care of yourself, because, not only are you going to have to rise to the occasion and help someone else, but you have to model for the next generation.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • Help
  • Care
  • Model

• Like most writers, I've read a lot of Hemingway, and I admire him greatly.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Like
  • Him
  • Admire

• I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Bad
  • History
  • Think

• Foie gras is sold as an expensive delicacy in some restaurants and shops. But no one pays a higher price for foie gras than the ducks and geese who are abused and killed to make it.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Price
  • Expensive
  • Ducks

• 'Jaws' was the definitive filmmaking turning point for me. It came out in the summer of '75 and I saw it an obsessive 55 times. They even ran a very embarrassing article about me in the local paper, about the weird kid who's seen 'Jaws' 55 times.

  

  Victor Salva
  • Summer
  • Kid
  • Point

• When I left the Giants in 2014, my comments were emotional, insensitive, and misguided, and I truly regret and apologize for my actions. I am committed to working hard to contributing to the success of the Giants.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Success
  • Emotional
  • Regret

• I didn't actually begin professionally acting until I was 30.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Acting
  • Actually
  • Begin

• When I was very young I knew that I wanted to be in show business. I knew that I wanted to be an entertainer.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Business
  • Young
  • Show

• When I come home and I'm tired from filming all day, I expect her to be there and make sure everything is cool for me. You know, like drawing my bath and helping me into bed.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Home
  • Day
  • Cool

• I have a superhero complex. If I see anything bad happen, I run towards it, rather idiotically because, after all, what could I do?

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Bad
  • Run
  • Superhero

• I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • World
  • America
  • Hope

• I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Money
  • Career
  • Early

• Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out of sight, out of mind.' But when you walk outside and see them on a billboard or on TV or on the cover of a magazine, it reopens the wound. It's a high-class problem, but it's real.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Mind
  • Real
  • High

• If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem simple but is in fact a complex affair with the potential for unintended consequences.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Past
  • Simple
  • Military

• For better or worse, we have evolved for sure, but we've also maintained a certain core about who we are, which is we were raised on late '50s and early '60s rock n' roll and R&B, and you can always hear that throughout. And that's just always been who we were. As much as we've evolved, that's stayed the same.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Rock
  • Better
  • Same

• I've done a lot of films that all have been pretty edgy.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Done
  • Pretty
  • Edgy

• Because in big and diverse societies like ours, progress ultimately depends on something more basic, and that is how we see each other. And we know from experience what makes nations strong. And Neha I think did a great job of describing the essence of what’s important here. We are strongest when we see the inherent dignity in every human being.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Great
  • Important
  • Job

• Justice therefore demands that no one should do more ruling than being ruled, but that all should have their turn.

  

  Aristotle
  • Justice
  • Turn
  • Demands

• I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings.

  

  Judy Collins
  • Writing
  • Feelings

• All I have learned, I learned from books.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Books
  • I Have Learned

• I would rather be a man of conviction than a man of conformity.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. Sometimes you run over a drunk who's lain down and fallen asleep on the warm pavement. I mean, do you keep going, or what?

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Writing
  • Night
  • Car

• Audiences always sound like they're glad to see me, and I'm damned glad to see them.

  

  Claudette Colbert
  • Sound
  • Audiences