Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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But there's no reason why we should abdicate our foundational principles because certain groups don't believe in them. You know, no majority should surrender its deeply held beliefs to those who don't believe in anything.
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I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.
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I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.
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If our country is serious about reducing our dependency on foreign oil, we need to get serious about mobilizing the infrastructure necessary to distribute and dispense the next generation of fuels.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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Even though I had been boxing, I had no idea I could beat somebody in the ring. And I had no idea I could really take a punch. When I realized that, I really started taking off.
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Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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I think people have a hard time thinking that I could've done a sitcom.
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Everything I do now is a first.
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It takes a lot of dedication to quit smoking, and whether you give up for good on your first try or have to give it a couple of tries - just keep swinging at it and you will succeed.
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Horseracing already has the highest mortality rate of any sport in the world per capita to the people who do it. If you crash in Nascar you still have a roll bar, and a cage, and a lot of protection. It's built to crash, but if you fall off a racehorse we all know what can happen, so it's tremendously dangerous.
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The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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I'm a vulnerable, sensitive person. I overthink everything.
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One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.
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It kind of varies according to what I'm doing and what my situation is, but, most of the time, I have no idea what I'm doing until the day of.
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Perhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the surest way to destroy the initiative, to denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.
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Little Jane's love would have been my best reward, without it, my heart is broken.
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Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson.
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In the Bible it says God has made everything good for man to eat and to wear their skins. Whenever we eat beef, we eat chicken, we have to kill to eat. But at the same time, hunting is a sport. I think it is a great sport... I would say most hunters are Christian men.
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Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals.
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Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
