Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
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I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
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I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot dance till late at night because I'm 70.'
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.
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I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.
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There are a lot of female directors in documentary, very talented. But it's always lower budget.
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Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?
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Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.
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I like listening to music and driving. How do you say... It's the only way I can 'chillax.'
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There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.
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I've always been busy, but I wasn't always successful.
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I always like to do the things that I think are right. I am not trying to be a model, I am trying to be myself and do the right things. If what I am doing is a model, or is an example, is the right example, I am very happy, but I don't pretend that.
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With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.
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We still haven't played Madison Square Garden. That's a benchmark. Something will have gone seriously wrong if we don't play Madison Square Garden for this album.
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If there are three words that need to be used more in American journalism, commentary, politics, personal life... it's the magic words 'I don't know.'
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We're made up of energy, so who's to say you can't transmit through electrical means? If you could transmit yourself wirelessly, then it's Armageddon pretty much.
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It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.
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And while there is life there is always the chance that something might happen.
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Someone once asked me what my working timetable was like and when was the last time I went on a holiday. I said about 20 years back. I don’t work anymore, because I get paid to do what I like most. So it’s like a paid holiday.
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Monti is a person who is an expert on both the political and professional level.
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Let's make sure that we don't close down 37 of the 42 clinics in Texas and leave women with nowhere to go and put them in a situation where their health will be at risk, because what we do know is that closing down the ability to access that service unfortunately does not take the need away or women's confronting that issue away.
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No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
