Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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I never left doo wop.
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I don't take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the last time I went out to a fancy dinner. My family lives in a modest two-bedroom apartment, and my kids share a bedroom. But I do have one extravagant vice: shoes.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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The Unites States used to use law enforcement to aggressively target North Korea illicit activities - counterfeiting U.S. currency, drug-running, counterfeit cigarettes and pharmaceuticals - until diplomacy gutted those efforts. The effort should be reinvigorated.
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I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
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Usually Mexico, or always Mexico has defended itself and its territory.
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I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
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The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.
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We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.
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I wasn't very ambitious as a child. I'm still not.
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As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it.
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I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against.
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Sometimes there has to be a goat on some level, and I'm totally fine with that being me.
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I have no mockings or arguments; I witness and wait.
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Simplicity is not so simple to attain.
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The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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Thrice three protections, Returning to the old places, With a steed used to the field.
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Unless there are pictures, I don't admit to anything.
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Philosophy will not be able to effect an immediate transformation of the present condition of the world. This is not only true of philosophy, but of all merely human thought and endeavor.
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O serpent heart hid with a flowering face! Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of devinest show, just opposite to what thou justly seemest - A dammed saint, an honourable villain!
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I'm like a crockpot on low heat. My mind constantly comes up with ideas, but I abandon a lot of them after a week or two. It's the ones that keep coming to me, that keep picking up flavors, that haunt me, those are the ones that wind up getting written.
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Empathy lies at the heart of Gatsby, like so many other great novels - the biggest sin is to be blind to others' problems and pains. Not seeing them means denying their existence.
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The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
