Alexandre Dumas Quotes

I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.

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• If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.

  

  Zig Ziglar
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• 'American Idol,' for me, is fizzling out. They can't package me, man... I'm an artist that's created this concept but used the 'American Idol' machine as a marketing tool.

  

  Taylor Hicks
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• I have a particular image, and my customers know my line isn't going to be so trendy it will be out of style next year.

  

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• Sex in space is not just a good idea, it's survival.

  

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• Any voting group has an interest that they want from politicians. That's why politicians have to talk to different people. But to reduce the black interest to free stuff is so insulting. It just makes me apoplectic.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Different
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• Paul McCartney, one of the best songwriters of all time, has only produced manure for the past 25 years.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
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• [Successful] projects that entrepreneurs initiated and carried through had one essential quality. All had been thoroughly contemplated by the regnant experts and dominant companies, with their large research staffs and financial resources, and had been judged too difficult, untimely, risky, expensive and unprofitable.

  

  George Gilder
  • Quality
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• I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic's heart.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Heart
  • Mother
  • Womb

• Art Deco for me except in its most crazed and attenuated forms, it's jut a matter of taste.

  

  William Gibson
  • Art
  • Matter
  • Form

• We as the band are geriatric, and I've got one foot in the grave. But when I start to think about it in the quiet of the night, I'm filled with energy and I think that time does not proceed chronologically for us after all. Instead, we are bend back towards eternal youth and immortality.

  

  Jussi Lehtisalo Circle
  • Thinking
  • Night
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• I wore a pink Betsey Johnson dress to my prom, and I pretty much looked like a pink cupcake. I loved that dress!

  

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  • Dress
  • Prom
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• Stay triumphant, keep on living. Stay on your toes, get off the ropes. Don't let 'em ever count you out.

  

  Mariah Carey
  • Living
  • Toes
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• People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Think
  • Pen

• I'm not a depressive, but I certainly have mood swings. It's an occupational hazard, I would say, and I'm glad I'm in the occupation I'm in.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Say
  • Mood
  • Swings

• Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • War
  • Small
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• When I was younger, I was very athletic and I always loved sports and physical things.

  

  Saoirse Ronan
  • Sports
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• You can always improve your situation. But you do so by facing it, not by running away.

  

  Brad Warner
  • Situation
  • Improve
  • Running Away

• I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Dread
  • Pen
  • Pistol