Alexandre Dumas Quotes
Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
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I love to cook. My dad's a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.
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I was in San Francisco for 'Trauma' and then got back to town and got situated and started looking at things and passing on things. I think I was around for a month and a half, and there were other projects that were up, but it's all a waiting game. And then, 'The Vampire Diaries' came up, and I was really interested and read for it.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.
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It's not like I didn't do anything for 10 years and chose a new profession. I've been on the ice a lot. I'm not an outsider.
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.
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Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.
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Sometimes you surf well and still don't win. It happens to everyone. You learn that one big score doesn't mean much if you don't have a backup. I guess every rookie learns that as time goes by. I took some big lessons from my losses.
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I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
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The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.
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Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it.
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Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will.
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When commerce with Moslems flourished, zeal for their massacre declined.
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Something rather frightening takes place, namely a self-fulfilling fame that's come up only in the past decade or so, that does not need to base itself in adaptive skill, or any skill for that matter. All it needs is the fuel of more celebrity, and thus more prestige, and thus more celebrity, and so on ad infinitum.
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We have to always look ahead enough moves to be well prepared, even for victory!
Garry Kasparov -
But since he hadThe genuis to be loved, why let him haveThe justice to be honoured in his grave.
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If you have a hammer, use it everywhere you can, but I do not claim that everything is fractal.
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Waitin' on the pizzle, the dizzle and the shizzle G's to the bizzack, now ladies here we gizzo.
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If you live in a family or have five roommates, there's some sort of reality check, but when you live alone, there's a lot more leeway for your fantasy life to be more and more a part of your everyday life.
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I know you have a heavy heart, I can feel it when we kissSo many men stronger than meHave thrown their backs out trying to lift itBut me I'm not a gambleYou can count on me to splitThe love I sell you in the evening by the morning won't exist.
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All of the men on my staff can type.
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Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
