Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.
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Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.
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On my mother's side, I'm English, so that's where the freckles come from. On my father's side, I'm German, and he has the fantastic olive hues... I was given mum's skin, whereas my brothers and sisters were given my dad's skin. I do tan up quite well, but it takes me a bit longer.
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I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience.
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In college, my idea of a productive day was to start writing at 7 A.M. and not leave my chair until dinnertime.
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When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.
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As a kid I had all kinds of questions about how I fit it with my neighborhood and friends and other Latinos.
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I haven't had many relationships.
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If your business is really easy to do, don't gloat. You might be out of a job soon.
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My first concert was 'Nsync.
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The truth is we just have a normal life, because we do have a church where our children are growing up pastor's children. And we just try to keep it really normal.
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I don't spend a lot of time online. My mother's really good at picking out if she sees a really great review, and she'll forward it to me. She's like my little Internet filter. It's always nice to see something going up; if I want to find something on Nathan Fillion, I do know where to look, but I've got a nice little delivery system in my mom.
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I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world.
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I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that which I did not do.
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Hey, once a Bond girl, always a Bond girl. It will always be a big deal - it's an exclusive club.
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Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
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I was convinced - and I am so still - that the fundamental principles of Christianity have to be proved true by reasoning, and by no other method. Reason, I said to myself, is given us that we may bring everything within the range of its action, even the most exalted ideas of religion. And this certainty filled me with joy.
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Se non volea pulir sua scusa tanto,Che la facesse di menzogna rea.
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Life is going to be complex, and the only way we're able navigate our way through it at all is by living as best we can and absorbing those experiences and somehow making intuitive responses in future situations that resemble them in some way.
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The light dove, in free flight cutting through the air the resistance of which it feels, could get the idea that it could do even better in airless space. Likewise, Plato abandoned the world of the senses because it posed so many hindrances for the understanding, and dared to go beyond it on the wings of the ideas, in the empty space of pure understanding.
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Nobody owes anybody anything; it's up to each individual to set high standards for himself or herself, and to set about working hard and creating a solid future.
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I buy books, I have shelves of books. I love to read.
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Mystery is not profoundness.
