Alexandre Dumas Quotes
The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow - so arbitrary are these transient laws.
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It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.
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Jessica Lange was my biggest crush when I was a kid.
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Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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It's taken me time to find my feet in L.A.
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There is a requirement to ensure the withdrawal takes place in a civilized manner. We will be able to show the world we deserve independence and freedom.
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To be 49 years old now and still be called The Kid, that's kind of special.
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When I was a kid, I never thought about anything. Never had to think about where I was going to school or what I was going to do. I just lived minute to minute.
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I have a feeling there were many, many successful rock duos that just didn't get attention. That's the fault of the rock press. They are always playing up controversy, scandal, aggravation, and irritation.
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It's tragic from how far we've come from 'Hope and Change'.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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I never intended to be in show business; I intended to be an extremely grounded person.
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In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don't intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don't have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people.
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Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.
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Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is oppression.
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There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups... but they're coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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The point of painting is not really deception or imitation.
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Her experience had taught her that people who insisted on having others recognize their outstanding qualities usually didn’t have any.
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The role of philosophy might be said to be to extend and deepen the self-awareness of mankind.
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You have to blast to build in Manhattan. And the buildings went up in Manhattan because of the power of that bedrock. Once you dig that foundation - and they dig with dynamite - and once you dynamite out and you secure that foundation, that building isn't going anywhere.
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Let us not suffer from a national amnesia that causes us to forget who and what we are.
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We have this perceived illusion of what the fashion designer does. As an industry, we make it out that this one individual changes the entire face of the earth. I have never said 'me'; it's always 'we.' I am just the big salesman.
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At first, when you go to premieres and award shows, you're thinking, 'How the hell am I here? All these people I've never met are here, and it's so cool!' And then, as time goes on, it's a little bit like, 'Ah... it's more like work.'
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The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.
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The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow - so arbitrary are these transient laws.
