Alphonse Daudet Quotes
Children are like grown people; the experience of others is never of any use to them.
Quotes to Explore
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When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I am so amazed at what these little kids do in keeping their parents alerted to what they are there for.
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All my books are optimistic!
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Saving enough to retire has become impossible for most Americans.
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I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.
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He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed.
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Study after study has demonstrated that people are better off financially, healthier, happier if they are married, and indeed, I repeat, if they are formally married as opposed to simply living together.
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When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.
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I've been left at the altar now a couple of times.
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If you can't trust a Methodist with absolute power to arrest people and not have to say why, then whom can you trust?
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Auditioning is one of the most nerve-racking things you could ever do, but you have to be so focused that you don't tic.
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There's an incredible comfort level that I have on film sets because it's where I've grown up.
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I refresh Twitter as thoughtlessly as some twirl their hair.
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I'm addicted to email, but other than that, there are practical things - being able to buy a book on the internet that you can't find in your local bookshop. This could be a lifeline if you live further from the sources.
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Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
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I used to think that you could get to a level of success where the laws of the universe didn't apply. But they do. It's still life on life's terms, not on movie-star terms. I still have to work at relationships. I still have to work on my weight and some of my other demons.
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Out of Frederic Remington's Sundown Leflare graved on the mantel. Sundown and another mountain man cooked and ate their supper. "Then," says Remington, "they sat down with the greatest philosopher on earth - the fire."
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I go to the movies at least five times a week, and after a while everything becomes a blur to me.
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Don't forget we are in a state of war and no peace. But it's very dynamic and challenging compared to the rest of the Arab world.
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The best advice I've heard was from a lady in her 80s at my grandmother's 90th birthday. I was telling her how wonderful my children are. She said, "Don't forget your husband: you only borrow your children; your husband you'll have for ever."
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Children are like grown people; the experience of others is never of any use to them.
