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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Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
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Coming up closeEverything sounds like welcome home.Come home and oh, by the way,Don't you know that I could make a dream that's barely half-awake come true?I wanted to say - but anything I could have said I felt somehow that you already knew.
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When you win a Grammy... you're thinking about you winning. It is amazing. Your peers and folks in the record business are saying, 'This is what we think of you.' And that's why the Grammy will always be, to me, the ultimate in what you get as far as a music trophy, because it is the one.
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It is also a study peculiarly adapted to an early stage in the education of philosophical students, since it does not presuppose the slow process of acquiring, by experience and reflection, valuable thoughts of their own.
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I never sold any of those "lose 10 pounds every week" scams. I've not changed my tune in all these years. I've seen everything pass by me, and I've been offered millions of dollars to put my name on products that were just lies. And I never did it.
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The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
