Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
Quotes to Explore
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No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not.
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There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.
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Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
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The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.
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Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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'Gravity' is a great example of a movie that we hope they're going to do more of. It's really entertaining, with a female star. It's not the kind of film you typically see, and gives me hope.
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The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world.
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You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.
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I would like to be where Diana Rigg or Judi Dench is, but I expect it is as good as it is going to get.
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There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
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I always like to play roles where I either love the character or think that it's a story that I can tell better than anyone else. There are always reasons for me to do whatever I do.
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The long term sustainable growth in job creation comes from the private sector. It is important that the Obama administration partner with the private sector and come up with the best possible ideas for creating jobs.
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Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.
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Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.
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We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.
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Just because we don't recognise someone from an area of our own lives, somehow it has become easy to simply ignore them and walk away.
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There are a lot of recent pics of me rocking silk strings of beads. They're made by survivors of the sex trade in Cambodia who were rescued by one of the organizations I support.
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If a guy can't handle your natural hair, he's weak. Why waste time on someone like that?
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Mr. Obama is particularly well positioned to challenge Hollywood because of his special relationship with the media world's elites. They might be more likely to heed criticism coming from Mr. Obama than from any other president or member of Congress.
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Growing up with the childhood that I had, I learned to never let a man make me feel helpless, and it also embedded a deep need in me to always stick up for women.
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The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
