Alexandre Dumas-fils Quotes
Be good, be young, be true! Evil is nothing but vanity, let us have the pride of good, and above all let us never despair.
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The one characteristic of authentic power that most people overlook is humbleness. It is important for many reasons. A humble person walks in a friendly world. He or she sees friends everywhere he or she looks, wherever he or she goes, whomever he or she meets. His or her perception goes beyond the shell of appearance and into essence.
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I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager and client, my family could do whatever they wanted to get me back, but if I was his wife, they couldn't.
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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I'd love to be a 'Bond' girl.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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I had experiences or exposure to music in church. I went to a church, it was very unique. It was a predominantly African American Catholic church. So they would have - one mass would be traditional church music, and then the other mass would be gospel music.
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My forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They're also not symbols. I would say that my job is to invent these forms and to put them together in a way that keeps your interest, to give the forms a quirky identity so you can engage with them, so you realize there's an inner intelligence or logic.
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Color is born of the interpenetration of light and dark.
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No man fails who does his best.
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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.
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The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him.
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There's nothing that can replace quality programs in a non-profit.
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Many women have asked me if it is possible to have a well-built wardrobe on a limited budget. 'Money,' I tell them, 'is no guarantee of taste, and an overstuffed wardrobe is often as bare as a skeleton when it comes to wearable apparel.'
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When I was young, a lot of things were closed off to me. I was always told, 'Don't do this, you can't do that' – instead of stopping me, it made me think, 'I can do that, I must do that.'
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Short cuts make long delays.
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Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.
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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.
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It means a lot to everyone around me that I look good, and I don't think it should have to. I just think I should look the way I do.
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When the light returns to its source, it takes nothing of what it has illuminated.
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I know of no country, indeed, where the love of money has taken stronger hold on the affections of men, and where the profounder contempt is expressed for the theory of the permanent equality of property.
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Disintegration is quite painless, I assure you.
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Be good, be young, be true! Evil is nothing but vanity, let us have the pride of good, and above all let us never despair.
