Alexandre Dumas-fils Quotes
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One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.
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I was just so excited to have a child! I held him up like he was Simba in 'The Lion King.' I wanted to sing 'The Circle of Life.'
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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
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I would love to work with Matt Damon.
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At 3 years old, I was imitating and doing fun little commercials for the family. Then at 5, I knew, 'OK, this is something I really like.' At 8, I was crying in front of the mirror and my mom was like, 'Oh boy, here we go. We know what she's going to do.'
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I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
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Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.
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My dad wasn't the biggest role model, but he was a great musician and I loved him very much. He was a character.
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I think when you've got a passion for something, it comes out of you, and people can feel it. Then your mind is so geared towards that and how you can improve on it, and you're so excited about performing that it comes together.
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I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for.
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I got stuff that's going to hurt for the rest of my life.
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Making a big Hollywood film that really affects people is as hard as making a small movie on a credit card.
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You can educate people on how to preempt their own conflict.
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Love is a kind of warfare.
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On the other hand, we have in Israel, an Israeli government which has been elected by the Israeli people. Their political agenda is not for peace. They are from the camp anti-peace.
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There is no doubt that Stop-and-Frisk does not yield the desired results, and it is apparent that it disproportionately targets minority communities.
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I never wanted to be a playwright.
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I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.
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I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
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Why do we complain about the Fall? It is not on its account that we were expelled from Paradise, but on account of the Tree of Life, lest we might eat of it.
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Say whatever your memory suggests is true; but add nothing and exaggerate nothing.
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At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain.
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When I was a naive young recruit in Spain, I used to wonder why soldiers bayoneted oil paintings, shot the noses off statues and defecated into grand pianos. I now understand: it was to teach civilians the deepest sort of respect for men in uniform - uncontrollable fear.
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Memory is a paradise out of which fate cannot drive us.
