Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
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I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.
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People see me now and ask if I'm still running. I may look like I am, but I'm really not. People think I still run every day but I ran for 25 years and I deserve to not do anything but walk or ride the bike with my kids.
Gail Devers -
The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.
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My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
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I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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When I'm 40 and nobody wants to see me in a sparkly dress anymore, I'll be like: 'Cool, I'll just go in the studio and write songs for kids.'
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I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.
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I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
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I married beneath me, all women do.
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Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
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I'm quite good at not writing.
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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
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I would like to thank my colleagues for voting a Social Democrat prime minister and to assure them I will vote a liberal president, as well.
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Pure geometrical regularity gives a certain pleasure to men troubled by the obscurity of outside appearance. The geometrical line is something absolutely distinct from the messiness, the confusion, and the accidental details of existing things.
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No matter what as an artist that's always what you want to do, you want to connect to the audience, you want to be able to send whatever message it is that you're singing about, you want to be able to convey that - and not make them feel - you want them to feel it, you want them to feel what you feel.
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I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.
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Everything I am, everything I've been allowed to do, career-wise, has come out of the opportunity I had with 'Cheers'. I think it's one of the funniest shows ever. They are some of my best friends.
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The U.N. has been focusing on the global goals in terms of trying to fight and eradicate poverty, and I feel like education is at the root of it all.
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These censorship people think something is going to promote behavior in people.
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The ironic thing is I took Kole from a family name - we had a vote and they had a few names, but Kole won - and getting it spelled with a 'K' is a constant correction, too. I'll never not be Warren Blosjo; it's just my stage name.
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I'm not the kind of person who thrives in 'the scene.'
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To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
