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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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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I'm not a fashion architect. I don't dress in Ralph Lauren and Gucci. When I buy a suit, I buy it at J. Press. I have a blue blazer that I wear 80 percent of the time.
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I grew up in a very religious household. My mom was a church organist. I was a religious kid.
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My home has a split personality. Some of the rooms are very French antique. Think Aubusson rugs, turquoise ceramic jugs, sandbag pillows, and broken birdcages. The other half is very Aztec. Neon ikat fabric pillows, vintage books piled up to the ceiling, and shutters from Bali.
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I can't read music. That's not where I come from musically. I come strictly from feeling, and that feeling comes from rock & roll.
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Then I turned to him commanding That he go the way he came, whence he came. But he answered me in sorrow, "May the Past not seek to borrow From the Present without blame - Just one memory from its store, Ere it goes to come no more, Back the pathway that it came, whence it came?"
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The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow - so arbitrary are these transient laws.
