Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Charles Caleb Colton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: 1780 - 1832

Topics

FlatteryImitationFormSincerest

Tragedy without comedy is melodrama, and comedy without a higher purpose is vacant.

Jesse Kellerman

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I try to dress a little casual before my photo-shoots. I can be comfortable before I go into my... transition.

Jennifer Hudson

DressI CanTransitionGoTry

There's no place for Depeche Mode and the Sisters of Mercy in the music I make with my band. If I was a fan, I wouldn't want to hear that on a Black Veil Brides record. It was important for me and for the integrity of the band not to tarnish it.

Andy Biersack

IntegrityMusicMeBlackPlaceWant

I think going into 'New Moon,' I knew the characters better. I knew the world better and I knew the actors who would be playing these roles. I had a sense of their rhythms and tones. 'Twilight' I was writing in a vacuum. We hadn't cast it yet.

Melissa Rosenberg

MoonWritingWorldThinkBetterNew

I think you can go from being not very funny to working really hard for 10 years and figuring out how to make a living on the road, but I don't think you can rise much above that.

Amy Schumer

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I found it tough to follow an athlete's lifestyle. But soon, it became a part of my life, and I embraced it.

Ritika Singh

LifeToughMy LifeLifestyleFollow

The Medicaid expansion enacted under Obamacare is unaffordable for the taxpayers of Kentucky and should be repealed.

Matt Bevin

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I love throwing myself into a place or a period or a point of view. In 'Fledermaus,' I loved throwing myself into the world of Vienna at the turn of the century. It was a lot of fun.

Douglas Carter Beane

LoveMyselfFunWorldLovedView

'Weekend Update' can be presented as a full 20-minute sketch, and there's a lot of room there.

Chevy Chase

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Living such an opaque life has forced me never to take transparency, openness, and honesty for granted.

Chelsea Manning

LifeHonestyMeTransparencyLiving

I think it's important for us not just to edit the culture that capitalism creates but to create the material basis for a culture that we want.

Boots Riley

CultureCapitalismThinkCreateWant

Could it be, I wonder, that there is such a thing as a wantologist, someone we can hire to figure out what we want? Have I arrived at some final telling moment in my research on outsourcing intimate parts of our lives, or at the absurdist edge of the market frontier?

Arlie Russell Hochschild

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