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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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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There was a lot more music than the size of the place would indicate.
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My mother likes to say that I was conceived to shop - not just born to shop. My whole life as a child was following her and her sister and friends around on her shopping trips.
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I am really close to my family. My cousin is my best friend!
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I have been struck by the pervasive frequency of pompously patriotic ads for the defense industry, usually accompanied by deferential salutations to our men and women who are heroically sacrificing their lives in our defense. Do we really need all of that for our security?
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It is true that all men are created in the image of God, but Christians are supposed to be conscious of that fact, and being conscious of it should recognize the importance of living artistically, aesthetically, and creatively, as creative creatures of the Creator. If we have been created in the image of an Artist, then we should look for expressions of artistry, and be sensitive to beauty, responsive to what has been created for us
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Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
