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Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes

In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: french
Birth: January 28, 1873 - August 3, 1954

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Find Matter Absence Far Worse Than

I had written a tune called 'Shake, Rattle and Roll,' but the white stations refused to play it - they thought it was low-class black music. We thought what we needed was a new name. But a white disc jockey named Alan Freed laid on it, and he thought up the name 'rock n' roll.'

Music Black Thought Name White Play

Barack Obama would never accept a court in Mexico decreeing what the law in the United States would be.

Law Accept Never Mexico United

Having listened to great songwriters like James Taylor and Carole King, I felt there was nothing new that was coming out that really represented me and the way I felt. So I started writing my own stuff.

Great King Me Writing New Nothing

I would prefer to be famous for something I did or built or achieved.

Famous Something Would Built Did

Australia is the same size as the U.S., but it's much smaller in terms of population. I've been working in the States off and on since the '80s, and the first time I played a lead here was in '91, I think.

Time Think Australia First Time Size

It's such a release to show yourself as not a charming person but just someone who is vulnerable.

Miranda Seymour

Yourself Someone Person Charming Who

It's a good community, country music, because we get the chance to sit down and... me and Tim McGraw spend a lot of time. Me and Kenny Chesney had the opportunity to spend a lot of time together. It's been a lot of great advice through the years.

Good Music Opportunity Community Me

L.A. I could live without.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Live Without Could

I didn't have a dollar to my name in 2006.

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Poetry Adolescence Thus Preserved

Every man who has a calling to minister to the inhabitants of the world was ordained to that very purpose in the Grand Council of heaven before this world was. I suppose I was ordained to this very office in that Grand Council.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Man Purpose World Heaven Office Who

Of course, my own political beliefs inform the ideas I come up with.

Ideas Political My Own Up Own Come

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