Alexandre Dumas Quotes
Why do you mention my father?' screamed he; 'Why do you mingle a recollection of him with the affairs of today?' Because I am he who saved your father's life when he wished to destroy himself, as you do today-because I am the man who sent the purse to your young sister, and the Paraon to Old Morrel-because I am the Edmond Dantes who nursed you, a child, on my knees.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
Lady Starlight
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
Vera Wang
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I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
Gary Dourdan
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In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
Wallace Stevens
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
Laura Linney
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We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.
Waylon Jennings
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
Kary Mullis
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We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.
Katha Pollitt
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I was always a writer – working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV – that was always my goal.
Beau Willimon
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I'm a very lucky girl.
Carly Rae Jepsen
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Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.
Maggie Q
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What happens in the music business is that if you step out of your little spot to do something else, the sand falls right into where you stood and you're gone, you're history.
Nancy Sinatra
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If I didn't play tennis I don't know where I'd be.
Venus Williams
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As a presidential candidate, Mr. Trump is going to get tough questions from the press and has to answer them.
Randy Falco
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I'm actually developing a project so that I can have a lead.
Rachel True
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The limelight is a tricky place, because you can't believe what's going on around you. You stop observing. You stop perceiving. You stop extending yourself, and you become isolated.
Vera Farmiga
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I have a pretty good family. But ever since I was little, I just felt like I wanted to be on my own. It was the same thing about school.
Harmony Korine
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I'm a pacifist by nature.
Rafael Correa
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Everybody sat around thinking about Panasonic, the Japanese electronics account. Finally I decided, what the hell, I'll throw a line to loosen them up. 'The headline is, the headline is: From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor.'
Jerry Della Femina
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This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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If you wear them outside, they stop being pyjamas. I wear mine to the mail box, which is right in front of my house - that's my limit. Anything else is wrong.
Karin Slaughter
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I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
Carl Sandburg
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I am blessed with a funny gene that makes me enjoy life.
Karan Patel
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Why do you mention my father?' screamed he; 'Why do you mingle a recollection of him with the affairs of today?' Because I am he who saved your father's life when he wished to destroy himself, as you do today-because I am the man who sent the purse to your young sister, and the Paraon to Old Morrel-because I am the Edmond Dantes who nursed you, a child, on my knees.
Alexandre Dumas