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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Opportunity never sneaks up on those who straddle the fence of indecision.
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I'm a 50-year-old guy making music for over 20 years. I've been writing songs since I was 20, so it's really been 30 years, and it's always been personal, but I've always told stories.
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If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.
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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
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We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.
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Men don't get smarter when they grow older. They just lose their hair.
