Alexandre Dumas Quotes

I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings. Take it, then, but in exchange...

Alexandre Dumas

• Happiness
• Feelings
• Despair
• Exchange

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• Let's judge a man on what he's done.

  

  Barbara Bush
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• Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.

  

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  • Sometimes

• I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
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• There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.

  

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• I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
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• You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.

  

  Iris Apfel
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• Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
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• With any relationship that goes on and is productive over a long period, there have to be some sort of interlocking qualities in those personalities that make it possible to survive.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
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• I have a superhero complex. If I see anything bad happen, I run towards it, rather idiotically because, after all, what could I do?

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Bad
  • Run
  • Superhero

• Trivializing the Holocaust is the last thing I want to do.

  

  Hans Haacke
  • Want
  • Holocaust
  • Last

• I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Time
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• I trust work, directors - I don't live in fear. All good experiences have come from trusting the universe. There is no other way to live or love. Otherwise, you create your own prison.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Good
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• A slice of hot, buttered toast is the perfect meal. It's not too much and not too little, and it gives you just the right buzz.

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • You
  • Perfect
  • Too Much

• I'm like, over love. Crush, smush. I can't. I'm giving up on love at this point. I'm hoping for a crush. Actually, no. I don't want a crush. I want someone to crush on me.

  

  Xosha Roquemore
  • Giving
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• I'm an example of why people deserve second chances.

  

  Cam Newton
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• It's the weirdest thing. When you go into acting, you expect to be a huge star and to be recognized... It did happen, but not in the way you expect it to... In L.A., I'm just another character actor.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
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• The one big, humongous, immense thing that we didn't change, that we didn't figure out how to deal with is, if men and women are both going to work throughout their lives, who's going to take care of the kids?

  

  Gail Collins
  • Work
  • Men
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• Serial killing is not about sex at all, but about power and control and revenge on society.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Power
  • Society
  • Control

• I want a soul mate who can sit me down, shut me up, tell me ten things I don’t already know, and make me laugh. I don’t care what you look like, just turn me on. And if you can do that, I will follow you on bloody stumps through the snow. I will nibble your mukluks with my own teeth. I will do your windows. I will care about your feelings. Just have something in there.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Soul
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  • Laughing

• You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.

  

  Bette Davis
  • Change
  • Happiness
  • Expect

• Whoever has nothing to hope, let him despair of nothing.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Hope
  • Despair

• Happiness or sorrow- whatever befalls you, walk on untouched, unattached.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Happiness
  • Sorrow

• When you first start to practice positive thinking, tell no one, go to it realistically, stop dwelling on your difficulties, your sorrows. Radiate the happiness you reall want in your life.

  

  Albert E Cliffe
  • Thinking
  • Positive
  • Happiness

• I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings. Take it, then, but in exchange...

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Happiness
  • Feelings
  • Despair