Alexandre Dumas Quotes
Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
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The fundamental values of a true community are elsewhere: in love, poetry, disinterested thought, the free use of the imagination, the pursuit of non-utilitarian activities, the production of non-profitmaking goods, the employment of non-consumable wealth - here are the sustaining values of a living culture.
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Vivisection is the killing of animals to find cures for the diseases caused by eating animals.
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The attraction in this city is money, from gambling. What you are if you work here is a shill.
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If I believe we need free personal care, we need an honest discussion about what it costs with a well-managed, well-trained workforce.
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I only finish probably one out of every ten things I start. I give up all the time.
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I would always stand up for women, but I don't want women's rights and all that sort of thing. I love to have men around, and I suppose if you're a true feminist, you get on and do it yourself. I love it when someone says, 'I'll get your coat' or, 'I'll look after you', or offers you a seat on the bus. I'm thrilled to bits. I'm not a feminist.
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Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
