Claudette Colbert Quotes
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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My target is to give everything, and only if we win the trophies will I be relaxed.
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Words are but the signs of ideas.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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At Nike, designers both created and communicated the brand, transforming a company that made shoes into a purveyor of athletic heroism.
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I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.
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I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.
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I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.
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I do stupid stuff like that: I'll call my wife from the road, send her pictures of glaciers.
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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
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It's a little strange when part of your family is in the public eye, and you're being put into a box that you're not necessarily in. That's when it starts to feel a bit odd: When you're being told who you are, but it's incorrect.
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There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.
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No man ever listened himself out of a job.
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That's a curious paradox that I don't think a lot of people out there know; that you get really scared before you go on. You come out in a nervous rash, and it's not like you actually love getting up there and showing off.
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Suicide is the most private and mysterious of acts, inexplicable because the chief actor is never there to explain it.
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...an Empire now crashing about their ears. The Sikh smiled at the vanity of human aspirations.
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I don't have a lot to share with other men. My heart sinks when I get into a taxi and someone starts talking to me about football.
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I have to be honest with you: When the FBI let me out of prison early to advise the agency on preventing fraud, I wasn't a changed person. I wasn't rehabilitated. But when I started working with the FBI, one of the most ethical groups of men and women in the world, I couldn't help but have some of that character rub off on me.
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Men don't get smarter when they grow older. They just lose their hair.