Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.
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I used to rely on black-and-white, and while I was working on 'Smile,' I learned to adapt to color on my end.
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When a town doesn't have a book store, it is like something is missing, and unfortunately, fewer and fewer have them.
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There will be mental worries with the long jump before Rio, but I know I can get through it. It's just getting my confidence back. I know I have a big jump in me.
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I can certainly put myself in Israel's shoes. They are humans just like we are. They want peace and security inside their borders.
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I remember bringing some of my other friends to our table, and everyone at our table would look at them and ask me, 'What are you doing? Why'd you bring him?' It was annoying high school stuff that still goes on now. My high school was really bad.
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I can't sit back and swallow stuff. I live in a time and place, and in a country on earth where you're not supposed to swallow it. People just gave up.
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You do indeed have a past, but not now! And, yes, you have a future, but not now! You can consume your now with thoughts of 'then' and 'maybe,' but that will keep you from the inner peace you could experience.
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I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
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I'm not bothered about what others are doing. All I want to do is excel in whatever it is that I do.
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Live life to the full, and become more curious every day. The more you find out about life, the richer your music-making will be.
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I'm from West Virginia. If you didn't know what was happening in NASCAR, you were on the outside. NASCAR is a big league sport, but it's still also country and redneck.
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The principle is that every member needs to represent their district.
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It's cheaper to buy a house and finance it than it is to rent in many markets.
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I don't know if anyone knows if they're ever any good, but I went to drama school in Scotland, in a classical acting course, and my first year, I remember one of my tutors telling me that I couldn't act, and I should give up and all this sort of thing, and then, they cast me as Romeo in 'Romeo and Juliet.'
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People call me Wayne Wonder and it also goes back to football because I could do mad skills with the ball and people would marvel and wonder how I could do it.
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I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.
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I have a wife and two boys. One is 18 and the other is 14. The 18-year old is getting ready for college next year and he made a decision to run track. He runs a lot like Michael Johnson.
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My life since the White House has been much more all-encompassing, much more enjoyable. The main thing that I've acquired has been access to the poorest and most destitute, forgotten, and suffering people on Earth. It's not possible for a President to actually know them.
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We call our rich relatives the kin we love to touch.
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around.
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Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging.
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Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.
