Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.
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Recruiting is the hardest part of any business, but in charity, it is 10 times harder.
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Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
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The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don't care if it's ugly; they just want reality.
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The bottom line is the Kiss Army is growing by leaps and bounds.
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The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
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Every single administration in American political history has put cronies and pals and donors into political positions. But normally those people become the ambassador to Liechtenstein or the deputy undersecretary of commerce.
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When you're with your club team, every week you have a performance to judge. But when you're with the national team, it's a little different because you might not play for three or four months at a time. Things change constantly.
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Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
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The Wild West attracts cowboys. A sheriff is a good thing.
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We want to be two-way players; that's the best thing.
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Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.
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We have plenty of technologies we could use to destroy the planet, and we don't. There's more love on this planet than hate; there's more creativity than destructive power.
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I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.
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Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
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I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing.
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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
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Criticism always seemed to me a lot like police work. You look for clues, fingerprints, motives. You need to construct an airtight case.
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I don't like to play the victim.
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Crime is the biggest genre in libraries and in bookshops, and it is hugely varied.
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Just as the Internet brought the cost of disseminating information down by an order of magnitude, bitcoin brings the cost of transferring ownership down by an order of magnitude.
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Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.
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A leader's most important decisions are about people. Who do you put in which jobs? How long do you leave them in a job?
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There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.
