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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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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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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Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
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I don't believe in it, because you're not around to know that it's happened. I can't say anything about it because I'm not prepared for it.
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I think as you get older, you realize there's always going to be critics. Critics are going to win every time because they can change their critique based on the stats and their own personal feelings. It's less about proving people wrong, the critics wrong, and it's more about challenging myself to keep this level up.
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Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.
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If a public figure tells a whopping lie once in his life, it'll haunt him into his grave. If he lies morning, noon and night, it will become almost impossible to remember any one particular lie.
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My philosophy is fundamentally sad, but I’m not a sad man, and I don’t believe I sadden anyone else. In other words, the fact that I don’t put my philosophy into practice saves me from its evil spell, or, rather, my faith in the human race is stronger then my intellectual analysis of it; there lies the fountain of youth in which my heart is continually bathing.
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Learn your craft well. Take care of your own business. Success (popularity) is fleeting for most, but longevity lies in a quality craft with integrity. Oh, and don't take yourself too seriously.
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The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
