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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If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.
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The first time I walked into the Olympic athlete village seeing the Visa ATM machine with my picture on it and the Chinese characters saying 'Destiny.' For some reason, it just boosted my confidence and it was before I had even worked out or had my first training or competed.
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What we can do as individuals may not be very much on the global scale, but we have to start the change by living as we are teaching.
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Integrity is something I strive for in every part of my life.
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However, if one has been playing the buy-and-hold game with quality securities, one has been exposed to a substantial amount of market risk because the valuations placed on these securities have implied overly rosy scenarios prone to popular revision in times of more realistic expectation. This is one of those times, but it is my feeling that the revisions have not been severe enough, the expectations not yet realistic enough. Hence, the world's best companies largely remain overpriced in the marketplace.
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The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
