Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.
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I'm not an A student; I'm not even a B student, but I've gotten a lot better with the reading because of texts. And I can voice-text and say whatever I want to people.
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Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
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When you look at the results that Newt Gingrich got when he was speaker, he got results for the American people.
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Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating people with respect and you must be showing kindness toward them.
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I dislike society because conversation exhausts my brain more than silent thought - again, I cannot hold my water long enough for a prolonged conversation.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.
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I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.
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Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.
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It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.
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You don't see many Jon Jones's.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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I think often the West does not understand the history and the privilege of wearing a hijab. They always think of oppression.
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Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn't be in the sport.
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The pleasure from acting comes from having great writing to work with. If it's well written and the character is interesting, then, as an actor, that's the raw material I need.
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You get to a new school, and you're the new guy, or you're the foreigner, or you're the guy with the funny accent. That first day at school was a whole new opportunity to create a new persona.
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A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart.
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If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
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As a songwriter, I go into the studio, and I just try to write a great song.
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I like to be entertained, not smothered with 'literary' riddles.
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There's a lot of shoes that people consider high-end fashion, from Balenciaga to this and that or whatever, and the Pro Models are very similar to me. They're very fashionable to me - the design and the shape of them. I just like them.
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Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power--assuming that life itself is the will to power.
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Now that I work as a professional model, I advise people to stay away from any television shows. It's a waste of your time; it's just entertainment. It's not the fashion that we now know.
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The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.
