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.

  

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

  

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• 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.

  

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

  

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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.

  

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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
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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
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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
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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.

  

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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?

  

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

  

  Pat Brown
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• I truly felt that was going to be my last tour. So here we are again and I'm saying this will probably be my last tour. That's truly the way I'm looking at it.

  

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• Too many lives go up in smoke - It's nice to laugh but don't be the joke.

  

  Janet Jackson
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• And a Famous Film Star who is left alone is more alone than any other person has ever been in the whole Histry of the World, because of the contrast to our normal enviromint.

  

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• I may have said the same thing before...but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.

  

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• The Citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud themselves for giving to Mankind examples of an enlarged and liberal policy: a policy worthy of imitation. All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship.

  

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• I once terminated a partnership with a chap who proved--unreliable. As a matter of fact, I terminated him.

  

  Edward Bernds
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• There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison...

  

  Jane Austen
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• In the early '90s, it was grunge; everybody was fully clothed. Alanis Morissette was one of the biggest artists in the world, never wore makeup, wearing Doc Marten boots, and then the Spice Girls turn up, and suddenly it all looks a bit burlesque; suddenly they're the biggest band in the world.

  

  Caitlin Moran
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• We used to go to Studio 54 - an amazing place.

  

  Jerry Hall
  • Amazing

• 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