Alexandre Dumas Quotes

If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.

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• I didn't have outstanding numbers coming out of college and I'm not 6'6 with 230 lbs.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • College
  • Numbers
  • Coming

• Being Human clothing was first launched in France, Belgium and Spain, where the brand's philosophy of look good, do good is connecting with people and not just Salman Khan.

  

  Salman Khan
  • People
  • Good
  • Philosophy

• When I wrote 'The West Wing,' the juice behind it was that in popular culture, our leaders in government are generally portrayed as Machiavellian, or as idiots. I thought, well, how about writing about a group of hyper-competent people?

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Writing
  • Culture

• I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Always
  • Politics
  • Student

• Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • People
  • You
  • Understand

• The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Money
  • Why
  • Decision

• I have a box of things from Becca, my high school girlfriend, and Vanessa; and each one of them was love. I have the notes, the valentines, 20 mixed tapes, all of it. It's important to keep that stuff.

  

  Oliver Hudson
  • Important
  • Stuff
  • Notes

• I say have the night and give people the awards, but why do people want to watch people win awards? What are they getting out of it? I don't quite get it. Because they have awards all the time; there's awards for butchers, the best meat served, but they don't televise it. I don't know why they do it for films or TV programs.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Time
  • Why

• My parents had some problems of their own that put me in a position of having to deal with very grown-up stuff at a very young age. I needed some help with that, therapy-wise.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Up
  • Help
  • Age

• People were stopping me on the street to say, 'Oh my God, it's Crazy Eyes!' Which is kind of a funny thing to have people shout at you on the street.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • People
  • God
  • Funny

• I have always fought for concrete facts, for justice.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Justice
  • Always
  • Facts

• If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And many movie fans I've spoken to would rather see an actor in a costume than CG.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Think

• I'm the kind of guy who really likes a challenge. It's more rewarding.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Guy
  • Kind
  • Challenge

• My father always said, 'Do your best and piss on the rest.' And I think there's a lot of truth to that, because if you've done your best, there's not a hell of a lot more you can do about something.

  

  KaDee Strickland
  • Done
  • Truth
  • Father

• A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.'

  

  Ted Williams
  • People
  • Man
  • Day

• That's the great thing about Apple: it's very focused on the things that we know how to do very well and not try to extend ourselves to areas that we know very little about or don't have a lot of expertise in.

  

  Eddy Cue
  • Great
  • Know
  • Apple

• The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.

  

  A. E. van Vogt
  • Free

• There is a physical relation between physical things. But it is different with commodities.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Different

• Melville locked himself away in his room for months while working on 'Moby Dick.' If I ever decide to write a novel, I hope someone will take pity on me and take me out to dinner instead.

  

  Marge Simon
  • Hope

• To come to peace with the moving on. It is a gift, in a way. We spend so much of our time fighting death, as we should. But sometimes the greatest gift we can give ourselves, and in turn the ones we love, is to know when to let go. To know when it is time—and to be at peace with that.

  

  Daisy Whitney
  • Time
  • Death
  • Peace

• Games give you a chance to excel, and if you're playing in good company you don't even mind if you lose because you had the enjoyment of the company during the course of the game.

  

  Gary Gygax
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Game

• Love affairs have always greatly interested me, but I do not greatly care for them in books or moving pictures. In a love affair, I wish to be the hero, with no audience present.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Art
  • Book
  • Wish

• Only in the Fall of 1924 did [Joseph] Stalin discover that it is especially Russia, as distinguished from other countries, which can by its own forces build up a socialist society.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Discover
  • Russia
  • Build Up

• If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Wish
  • Crime
  • Discover