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.

Alexandre Dumas-fils

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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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• 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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• 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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• Today is a big step in our march toward equality. Gay and lesbian couples now have the right to marry, just like anyone else. #LoveWins.

  

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• vagueness is a 'romantic' value.. ..an emphasis on geometry is an emphasis on the 'known', on order and knowledge.

  

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• I don't make decisions just on the character I'm supposed to play. Sometimes it's based on the director, sometimes it's based on the story, sometimes I need money, or sometimes I'm just starved to work.

  

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• He has a spirit-a soul- and therfore a choice. I will belive that Aurox will chose Light, even if Darkness resides within him. None of us is entirely good. Or evil.

  

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• Maybe we're about to radically change the operating system of the human condition. If so, then this would be a really good time to make backups of our civilization.

  

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• He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.

  

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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.

  

  Alexandre Dumas-fils
  • Evil
  • Pride
  • Despair