Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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I think whatever you have in your life, my opinion is that if you know that there's something wrong, you try to fix it.
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What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the stranger is no longer the potential criminal and the certain inferior!
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Colombia is in a risky position. They've got a peace process that's going nowhere, and a drug production problem that's skyrocketing.
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If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.
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Over-eating is the addiction choice of carers, and that's why it's come to be regarded as the lowest-ranking of all the addictions.
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I want to keep people guessing.
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I love and really respect strong women. I'm obsessed with Scarlett Johansson and Drew Barrymore and Penelope Cruz. They are just really incredibly strong-willed, intelligent females in the industry.
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I'm not in the business of changing policies. I hope to inform, not form, decisions.
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I'd say I'm quite powerful so I'm not afraid of jumps or acrobatic elements. The hardest part is... get on the beam and stay there on top of it!
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Ferdinand was a gold trader. He was a lawyer for mining companies. When he entered politics in l949, he had tons and tons of gold. When Bill Gates was a college dropout, Ferdinand already possessed billions of dollars and tons of gold. It wasn't stolen.
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My debut album is just a diary from a lonely 21-year-old. That's what it is.
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Unmoved though Witlings sneer and Rivals rail, Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail. He scorns the meek address, the suppliant strain. With merit needless, and without it vain. In Reason, Nature, Truth, he dares to trust: Ye Fops, be silent: and ye Wits, be just.
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I had a good mind to discontinue permanently the supply of grain to the city, reliance on which had discouraged Italian agriculture, but refrained because some politician would be bound one day to revive the dole as a means of ingratiating himself with the people.
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How many people have had starter marriages? For some reason, mine really offends people.
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I had some good teachers. One of the greatest teachers I've had is bluegrass music: going back and listening to Bill Monroe's music, the Stanley Brothers, Flatt & Scruggs. When I was with Ralph Stanley I learned a lot from him.
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I start lighting pine-scented candles the day after Halloween.
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I just try to write the best story I can, a story I would love to read, and hope that readers feel the same.
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The blues tells a story in itself. It can make you happy or give you a feeling to swing.
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Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful.
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The time for frivolous entertainment has passed. You can be entertained while at the same time learning from and growing with the people around you.
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Out of life's storm I carried only a few ideas - and not one feeling.
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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
