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Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

Charles Caleb Colton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Simple Thought Reason Demand Made

My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had a life in the United States one way and my mother had a different one, and I was very aware of those things. I continue to wonder about it, and I will continue to write about it.

Life Marriage Father Mother Parents

The job of training an Iraqi police force is one of the most important tasks being undertaken in Operation Iraqi Freedom. It is also one of the most difficult.

Freedom Police Job Training Force

It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.

Mind Impossible Miracles Human Take

We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we're able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves.

Life Hate Darkness Learn Humanity

Is discipline (both mental and physical) in place of coddling truly child abuse? I don't know, but it sure as hell is effective.

Discipline Child Hell Place Know

A lot of people talk too much. They speak... except they don't.

People Speak Too Much Talk Much Too

You can't do things for money. You just can't act them. There's gotta be something about the script that you really want to do. I wouldn't do a job if I didn't think I could do the best work I possibly could.

Work Best Money Job Think You

I have been tied up with music for about as long as I can remember. By the time I was four I was picking out little tunes my mother played on the reed organ in the living-room.

Mary Lou Williams

Mother Music Time Remember Long Out

When I came back to California in the early '60s I was hanging out with Jimmy Bowen, Phil Spector, and I wanted to be a record producer and work with other artists.

Work Back Early California Out

Nothing's worse than telling your family you got a pilot, hearing the pilot got picked up, and then finding out it's not in the fall lineup.

Family Finding You Fall Nothing Out

We didn't do an American tour because it I know it wouldn't go down well.

American Down Go Know Because Well

The nightmare is you spend the rest of your life being funny at parties and then people say, 'Why didn't you do that when you were on television?'

Life Funny People Rest You Say

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