Alexandre Dumas Quotes
...for, however all other feelings may be withered in a woman's nature, there is always one bright smiling spot in the maternal breast, and that is where a dearly-beloved child is concerned.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.
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I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.
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I'm process-orientated. Awards, by their nature, are results-orientated.
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I hate to lose. It's a bad feeling, but, I mean, it kind of gets you resettled, gets you back right.
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It was always my desire to strike new ground and help to lend weight where it was most required.
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'Fargo' is one of my favorite movies.
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Minorities within nation-states frayed by global capitalism are naturally more resentful of hollowed-out but still heavily centralised systems of political and economic domination.
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Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I can tell you that as a writer and as a reader, I regard character as king. Or queen. No matter how riveting the action or interesting the plot twists, if I don't feel like I'm meeting someone who feels real, I'm not going to be compelled to read further.
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If you hate the Jewish people, you are not reflecting the teachings of Christ.
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I wasn't a social butterfly at all.
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I don't move away from grief, rather through it.
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Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.
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I think I was only divorced once, and the rest were annulments. Or, maybe not. I can't keep track actually, because it's not that important. I just am who I am.
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I now realize that a broken back, failed surgery, and Stage IV cancer are three of the greatest things that ever happened to me. Three of the most positive, transformative things that ever happened to me. They helped me become a vastly better person than I ever was, and I am eternally grateful for that.
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I think it's important for one to take a certain distance from oneself.
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With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
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I think people everywhere have a very dismaying feeling that politics are going over their heads, are being decided by wealthy interests that don't take them into consideration. And are bending the legislative process in their own behalf.
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Then came nights when, lying awake beside my final wife, I would spend too much time putting my finger on what was wrong. I was wearing the finger out. What was wrong was very simple. Sometimes her life and mine fell on the same day.
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...for, however all other feelings may be withered in a woman's nature, there is always one bright smiling spot in the maternal breast, and that is where a dearly-beloved child is concerned.
