Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.
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In my novels, there are twelve ancient 'memory tools,' all now lost. Each of the 'Reincarnationist' books revolves around a different tool.
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Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
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You cannot reduce the power of story with the tag of money because it's not a share market. So you must know the seriousness of the power of storytelling.
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My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise.
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I don't agree with boarding school. It's not something that I would do with my children, but I think it's something that kind of exists in England in a traditional way, and you do form very close relationships with the girls you go to school with. But it is a strange thing to live in an environment which is solely female.
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Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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I think for a lot of amateurs, their alignment is always out.
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I'm not good at accepting help.
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We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.
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Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.
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My work is through my emotions, so everything kind of goes together.
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You just try to absorb as much as you can from someone who has won as many races and championships as he has. Career wise, he's been the greatest thing that's happened to me.
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I survived because I never took on big responsibilities in my private life. In the early days, I lived on two or three pounds a week and learned to cook - and I'm a good cook - because I had to. Even when I went on holiday, I stayed in other people's houses.
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I'd just love to see a great love story, and nobody makes them anymore. You have great actresses like Cate Blanchett - she's fabulous in Pushing Tin and Elizabeth - and you don't use them.
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It was important to me to find a label that wouldn't back out after a first single. Everyone's so used to hearing me with Hootie, they're going to be skeptical.
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And I can relate to that, because I went to an all white school, so I knew what that was like. And it was hard at the time, but anything that's difficult you learn from, don't you?
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You know, I go to work in a great office every day, and the amount of freedom that goes with being a pro golfer on the tour is awesome. So I get to enjoy my weeks off away from the course, and then I get to go to work on some of the best golf courses in the world out here.
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The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
