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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Jokes that are gratuitously offensive are synonymous with bad writing to me. I'm offended as a writer first and as a person second.
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The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.
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America has not traditionally been the cramped, frightened country of Trump's executive order that bans Syrian refugees.
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I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.
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Within the Christian tradition, fundamentalism arose in the 19th century as an effort to push back against modern' readings of the Bible that suggested everything in the text wasn't true in some literal sense.
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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.
