Alexandre Dumas Quotes

I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.

Alexandre Dumas

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• I can spend 10 to 15 minutes with someone, and they can tell me what they're going through. I may never have gone through that, but I get it on a really deep level.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
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• By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.

  

  Paris Hilton
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• When you reach 50, what you care about is being honest, being accurate, and being an example.

  

  Natalie Cole
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• We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.

  

  Ted Deutch
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• Creative people are more prone to depression.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
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• What I don't like to hear in music is something has not been thought through: that a sound is just there randomly. I want to make sure that every single little noise that's in my song is there because it's supposed to be there.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
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• One Hundred Year Starship really is about the idea that is we pursue an extraordinary tomorrow; we'll build a better world today.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • World
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• Fashion intersects a lot with art and film and music, and that was appealing to me. I read a bunch of fashion blogs and wanted to be part of the community.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Music
  • Art
  • Community

• Before blogs, it was all about physical presence. We used to send out videos and audiotapes to communicate. Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Time
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  • Internet

• Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Wisdom
  • Shoes
  • Saying

• I just like the insides of things and finding ways into microscopic worlds. There's also an element of control, taking things apart and putting them back together. It's a very tedious task. You can be alone and create a world for yourself.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • World
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  • Control

• For me to own land in Detroit, it was a badge of honor, and it was support for the city.

  

  Manuel Moroun
  • Support
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• I'm very sad 'Life' wasn't a big hit, But it was undone by politics at NBC. It was intense. I moved my wife, and we had two children back to back. So working those hours and living abroad in L.A. was a handful. But it was a great experience.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Life
  • Great
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• Because capitalist society has expanded the productive forces so enormously, the social conditions under which it arose lag behind and become fetters holding back the further growth of productive forces.

  

  Earl Browder
  • Society
  • Growth
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• From my own kind I only learnHow foolish comfort is

  

  W. H. Davies

• It was Richard Parker who calmed me down. It is the irony of this story that the one who scared me witless to start with was the very same who brought me peace, purpose, I dare say even wholeness.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Peace
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• Несчастные эгоистичны, злы, несправедливы, жестоки и менее, чем глупцы, способны понимать друг друга. Не соединяет, а разъединяет людей несчастье...

  

  Anton Chekhov

• Hold me close and tell me how you feel Tell me love is real.

  

  Buddy Holly
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• The aim of the Revolution is, so far as the interests of China herself are concerned, the restoration of her original frontiers and, in regard to the rest of the world, a gradual advance of all nations from the stage of equality to that of an ideal unity.

  

  Chiang Kai-shek
  • World
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  • Revolution

• I love driving at Monaco but the rest of it, well, I can absolutely take it or leave it. It's extremely pretentious and really not my cup of tea.

  

  Mark Alan Webber
  • Rest
  • Driving
  • Tea

• They called him Moishe the Beadle, as if his entire life he had never had a surname.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Life

• In boxing, it is about the obsession of getting the most from yourself: wanting to dominate the world like a hungry young lion.

  

  Anthony Joshua
  • World
  • Boxing
  • Lion

• The intellectual who wants to do her work properly must today go back to the starting point: the woman whom she knows, and first of all to herself. It is at that level, and at no other, that she ought to begin to think about the world situation.

  

  Jacques Ellul
  • World
  • Work
  • She

• I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Rest
  • Foolish
  • Wicked