Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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Whatever I do, I hope it's quality, I hope it's something that's class.
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I thought I knew how to work out before I immersed myself into boxing. I now know what an extreme workout really is.
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I was named Margaret Yvonne. 'Margaret' because my mother was very fond of one of the derivatives of the name. She was fascinated at the time by the movie star Baby Peggy, and I suppose she wanted a Baby Peggy of her own.
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Usually when I write a song, I'll write the music and then kind of fit some words to it.
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I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected.
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We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.
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Many people still believe that 'green' solutions are too expensive, but they are actually much cheaper when all of the costs to public health, social services, and waste handling are factored into the same equation.
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The happiest days of my youth were when my brother and I would run through the woods and feel quite safe.
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For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.
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Suburbia, to me, was the most fantastical, unusual place. I thought it was Disneyland.
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Enjoy and have fun when you're a kid, because you are a kid.
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I play Beethoven and Bach. At the same time, Biggie is my dog.
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It is said that there is no salvation outside the Church. Who denies this? And therefore whatever things of the Church are had outside the Church do not avail unto salvation.
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I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.
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Strategy is about stretching limited resources to fit ambitious aspirations.
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I don’t like to badmouth people. But I’m the head of a monarchy that began in the ninth century, and I’m apparently more modern than Chris Christie. Look, I know he has to appeal to the crazy right-wingers in his party, but the fact is, he’s not as forward-thinking as an eighty-seven-year-old lady who wears a crown on her head. It’s pathetic.
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I must say, though, that a man who has staked his whole life on the card of a woman's love and who, when that card is trumped, falls to pieces and lets himself go to the dogs – a fellow like that is not a man, not a male. You say he's unhappy – you know best. But all the nonsense hasn't been taken out of him yet. I'm sure he really believes he's a smart fellow just because he reads that rag Galignani and saves a muzhik from a flogging once a month.
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The music is not part of this planet in a sense that the spirit of it is about happiness. Most musicians play earth things about what they know, but I found out that they are mostly unhappy and frustrated, and that creeps over into their music.
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I was happy there. Which is to say I was not unhappy there. Unhappiness and happiness I have always been able to carry about with me, irrespective of place and people, because I have never joined in.
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We're all equal before a wave.
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Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
