Andre Dubus Quotes

For our excess we lost everything.

Andre Dubus

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• You don't always get to work as much as you like, because I'm waiting to find things that I care about. Sometimes that's frustrating.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Work
  • Care
  • Waiting

• We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning. It's hard to have meaning in a closet, encapsulated by nothing. I think you really have to expand yourself and your life and do what you can for other people.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • People
  • Life
  • Yourself

• You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • People
  • Life
  • Chance

• I think I was more or less, convinced of that by just the press, the US press. By people who were pressuring you, saying that you gotta beat the Russian's, if you don't win anything else, win the Russian meet and so forth.

  

  Ralph Boston
  • People
  • Win
  • Saying

• For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Me
  • Beauty
  • Creativity

• I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Good
  • May
  • Think

• I don't want to be someone else.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Want
  • Someone
  • Else

• 'Independents' - the industry term for companies that have more capital and know-how than the typical 'wildcatter' - can grow either by exploring and finding reserves or by buying a company that already has them.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Grow
  • Finding
  • Exploring

• Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Mean
  • Show
  • Just Because

• Companies that receive government information demands have to obey the law, but they often have room for maneuver. They scarcely ever use it.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Law
  • Government
  • Information

• The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Authority

• In a marketplace where it's so easy to produce products, where your competitors can essentially match you on the product itself, you need to have something else. You need to have an added value, and that added value is the identity, the idea behind your brand.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Value
  • Identity
  • Brand

• My escape is to just get in a boat and disappear on the water.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Water
  • Boat
  • Escape

• On paper, it looks rough, but I had a great childhood.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Great
  • Childhood
  • Looks

• The captain of the Hampshire grenadiers...has not been useless to the historian of the Roman Empire.

  

  Edward Gibbon

• We are not going to sit idly by and permit state actors to go after our information, our private-sector information or our public-sector information.

  

  Hillary Clinton

• 'It makes me madder than a hornet to be disbelieved,' she explained.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • She

• The existence of such a war chest might go far to strengthen our prestige and frighten off any would be assailant.

  

  Benjamin Graham
  • War

• Every day, I hear a song and I think, 'This would be great to cover on Glee.' I like Led Zeppelin, of course, and Pink Floyd, Alice in Chains.

  

  Mark Salling
  • Great
  • Song
  • Pink

• I've been a grant seeker all my life, but when I apply for one and get it, that means someone else doesn't. I didn't want to be a part of that anymore. I wanted to contribute to that pool and make it bigger.

  

  Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
  • Life
  • Pool

• It has seemed, at times, like American carmakers think car buyers are so blindly loyal that they will keep coming back - despite the sticker shock - for crummy cars that guzzle gas, fall apart too soon, and cost too much to repair.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • American
  • Think
  • Fall

• Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Medicine
  • Diseases
  • Doubts

• I don't want actors to know anything. The more they are lost, the better they play.

  

  Bruno Dumont
  • Lost

• For our excess we lost everything.

  

  Andre Dubus
  • Lost
  • Excess