Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.
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The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.
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It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.
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A good lie detector doesn't jump to conclusions but tries to understand the person across the table, her personality, and her motivations. Your goal as a lie spotter isn't to point the finger and say, 'You're lying' - your goal is to get to the truth.
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Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
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Disrespect toward Jesus, as we have seen all too often in our society, is very offensive to Muslims.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind.
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What's lost in this whole debate, unfortunately, is that Social Security is not a giveaway where we take money to give to other people. It's a contract with the government... that's worked for 75 years. It's the most successful government program that we've ever had.
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There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people feel free to ask questions without being put upon, where they feel free to ask difficult, challenging questions to voice their skepticism.
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It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
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I can do whatever I want.
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I was so ashamed of who I was.
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When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.
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Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
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You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.
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If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.
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I feel like a very lucky person. From the time I was young, I had a dream of becoming a writer. Now that dream has come true, and I am able to make my living doing something I really love.
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What is a turducken? An exclusive culinary creation available by special order from some little Cajun town down south. Entirely deboned, a turducken consists of a turkey, stuffed with duck, stuffed with a chicken, like an edible Russian nesting doll. Some were stuffed with alligator, crap, shrimp; my favorite was the traditional cornbread variety.
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I was terrible when I first started skating and was clinging onto the side for dear life, but it's something I'll always have now, and the tour is always so much fun.
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I don't drink. I choose to be sober now. I have drunk over the last six years, but I just don't want to be that person anymore.
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Washington, D.C., had never seen my style of politics.
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Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
