Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
Charles Caleb Colton
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If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.
Iris Chang
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Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
Ida B. Wells
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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
C. S. Lewis
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Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.
Zakk Wylde
Black Label Society
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If you really want something, it's nerve-racking, but at the same time, I try not to stress myself out about it too much because there are also so many arbitrary things that go into being cast for something - you know, like the color of your eyes, all these things that are kind of out of my control.
Laura Harrier
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My father loves people. No matter what their race, no matter what their position in life, he treated everyone with kindness and love and respect. And that was instilled in me just by watching him.
Laila Ali
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The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.
Walter Kirn
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Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
Daniel Day-Lewis
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When my dad, Tommy Tucker Kelly, was about six, he started out with his dad on 'The Black and White Minstrel' Shows.
Rachel Tucker
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I contend, most seriously, that there is a real need for a good, thick, complete-as-possible dictionary of 'What People Used to Call Things.'
Gary Jennings
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For me, insomnia was something ordinary, and it came and went for ordinary reasons.
G. Willow Wilson
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I've never thought in terms of 'men do this' and 'women do that.'
Carly Fiorina
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I'm sharpest early, and though I can rewrite any time, day or night, I'm useless after noon when it comes to writing first draft.
Hallie Ephron
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World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
Barry Commoner
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For me, choice is the most important thing because I'm going to be an adult actor pretty soon. So I've got to be choosing the right roles now so that by the time I get to that age there will be wide options available.
Haley Joel Osment
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The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
W. H. Auden
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I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.
Ralph Steadman
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The best part about being friends with your parents is that no matter what you do, they have to keep loving you.
Natalie Portman
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Only that position can impart dignity in which we do not appear as servile tools but rather create independently within our circle.
Karl Marx
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Only the most unapologetic biblical fundamentalists, for instance, take every biblical injunction literally. If we all took all scripture at the same level of authority, then we would be more open to slavery, to the subjugation of women, to wider use of stoning. Jesus himself spoke out frequently against divorce in the strongest of terms.
Jon Meacham
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Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea.... We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.
Henrik Ibsen
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The gunner's mate came up and started breaking the locks on the ammunition. Everything was locked up for fear that someone might go in there with a cigarette or something.
Barney Ross
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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
Charles Caleb Colton
