Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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I don't care much about hardware. Nintendo games are some of the best games in the world, and from a more graphical standpoint, the Wii can't do what a PS3 or 360 can do.
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Understated jewellery is not for me. It's too itsy-bitsy. My husband is lucky, as I've never had a yen for real jewels.
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I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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I used to come up with these crazy jobs to try and provoke my parents but they said, 'You can be anything you want.' So I was like, 'I want to be a garbage man' and they were like 'That's OK, we'll still love you!'
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I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.
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The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
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I've got a 1990 Porsche 911. It's just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it.
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I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
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But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.
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You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
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A lot of times, when you're the leading lady, you get to sing heartwarming songs and that's it, and people don't get a sense of who you truly are.
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I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'Tis only to them that they are blessings.
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Never take a subordinate to the woodshed in front of others; do that in private.
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I think that people need an adrenalin rush. Folks need something aspirational; they need to do something that is hard. That's what ignites the imagination.
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Don't tell people you're smart; let them find out on their own.
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You get so tired of having your work die. I just wanted to make something that people would actually use.
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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
