Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.
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When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
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When we were younger, we sang at the dinner table. We started doing two part harmony, then three part, and then we added back up tapes and instruments.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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If you are unhealthy, start by making small changes to become healthier. You are unique, beautiful, and worthy.
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They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and all. I mean they were good, but they were too good.
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I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music.
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I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.
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I must never write when I do not want to write.
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
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There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.
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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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I grew up on Marvel and, like, '2000 AD.'
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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Faith is personal if it's to be real.
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I had a Ford F-250. It was a big ol' farm truck, but it wasn't a rig. That's about the biggest I've ever driven. That's what I drove back and forth to high school. I was a poor guy, and it was a truck that my uncle owned and let me drive because I had no money.
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Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
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That's what I think a journalist from the '70s and '80s should look like - as though he has led a full journalistic life.
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When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
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Hold on to your dream. Don't let past failures or dire economic forecasts make you a pessimist. Keep your youthful dreams alive and create your own opportunities.
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I had to accept the fact that sometimes things happen that are out of our hands.
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I wasn't really interested in doing anything except going from pilot season to pilot season and sowing my oats in the months between and telling my agency to stop sending me movie scripts, because they'd pile up in my house and make me feel guilty because I had to read them.
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If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.
