Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.
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There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.
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Clothing and makeup and hair and all of that so much indicates the kind of person you are inside and the person you are presenting on the outside. Sometimes they are in conflict, and sometimes they are the same. That psychology of the exterior informing the interior is just so interesting.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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In North Germany, a troublesome ghost is bagged, and the bag emptied in some lone spot or in the garden of a neighbour against whom a grudge is entertained.
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I want to be judged on my own merits.
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It is clothes. It is parts. Therefore, you combine the parts differently to create your own unique expression.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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There's always elements of danger in New York, but people are always out on the street. I don't feel scared there at all.
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Many of the racial problems in America are caused by the fact that people are innately tribal, and politicians know how to exploit that biological fact.
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I'm sick of people imposing cultural references and influences on me, but I'm not sick of people talking about my age.
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God has one destined end for mankind - holiness! His one aim is the production of saints. God is not an eternal blessing-machine for men. He did not come to save men out of pity. He came to save men because He had created them to be holy.
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I don't think silicone makes a girl good or bad.
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He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.
