Alexandre Dumas Quotes
'Weep,' said Athos, 'weep, heart full of love, youth, and life! Alas, would I could weep like you!'
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You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.
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I couldn't tell the truth if my life depended on it.
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Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily... and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.
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Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.
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There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
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I don't dream at night; life has given me the stuff I need to be able to dream during the day. I'm very lucky.
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Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.
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I feel like we have to keep our eyes on the road. Being nostalgic is like taking an offramp and getting a sandwich - and then you get back on the highway. I don't want to be spending the rest of my life at the gas station.
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One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.
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Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place.
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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.
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To me, the newspaper business was a way to learn about life and how things worked in the real world and how people spoke. You learn all the skills - you learn to listen, you learn to take notes - everything you use later as a novelist was valuable training in the newspaper world. But I always wanted to write novels.
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I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.
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I've learned over the years that people are human and have mood swings, regardless of how talented they are. Today, I'm looking at life from a realistic point of view instead of the way I would want things to be.
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At some point, a flash of sustained clarity reveals the difference between what someone would have you believe is true, and what you know from the depths of your own heart to the peaks of your soul to be true. What happens after that is up to you.
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To be a good actor you have to feel life and observe life.
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The question of what it is to live an 'authentic life', that's a complicated one.
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Sometimes you can press a little bit and you're trying to do too much and you're trying too hard. You want to win so bad and you want to help the team so badly that you end up trying too much instead of letting the play come to you.
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Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
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'Weep,' said Athos, 'weep, heart full of love, youth, and life! Alas, would I could weep like you!'
