Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
Salvador Dali -
When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.
Daisaku Ikeda -
Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
Hanya Yanagihara -
I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she was my best friend, and then, in high school, she turned on me and had sordid affairs with all of the people that I'd dated. It was less hurtful because I was in high school, so it was more like, 'What's wrong with you? Gross!'
Mae Whitman -
It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.
Orison Swett Marden -
Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
Salma Hayek
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I remember praying for peace all the time as a kid.
Queen Latifah -
Let's dare to release our immature fantasies of a magically faultless U.S. system and a magically protected election process. We have been lucky as a nation, but sometimes continued luck depends on action.
Naomi Wolf -
I feel that being an actor is a front-row seat into seeing how everybody else makes their movies. Basically, being in the trenches for ten years is like a college-level course in filmmaking if not more. It feels like every director I work with and every set that I visit as an actor, I see someone else's definition of filmmaking.
Lake Bell -
I didn't intend to run for public office. I didn't really think about it.
Maggie Hassan -
I know a lot of reporters certainly will go to jail to defend confidential sources. Some have even gone to jail for an issue like this. But I can't say that's the norm.
Floyd Abrams -
As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory, and have a remarkably enduring tendency not to foresee problems that, in hindsight, seem obvious.
Adam Hochschild
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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
Edward Young -
Sanctification is not regeneration.
Matthew Simpson -
If you're trying to get to the underworld of Berlin, it's not suits and ties; it's rock and roll.
David Leitch -
I do enjoy doing pantomime at Christmas. If I didn't do it, I'd feel as though I was missing something.
Kenny Baker -
I don't have a long family history of good cooks in my family.
Bobby Flay -
Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer (slurring): Aboard airplane Stewardess, could you get me another drink?
Phil Hartman
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Real friendships among men are so rare that when they occur they are famous.
Clarence Day -
Friends are necessary to a happy life. When friendship deserts us, we are as helpless as a ship left by the tide high upon the shore. When friendship returns to us, it's as though the tide came back, giving us buoyancy and freedom.
Harry Emerson Fosdick -
I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.
George Bernard Shaw -
There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
Alexandre Dumas