Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best.
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Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
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When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.
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I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.
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Have you read 'The Grapes of Wrath?' That was my family. My dad was a sharecropper in western Oklahoma. When the dust storms came and everything got wiped out, they came to California. The guys with the mattresses on the tops of their cars in the movie? That was the way it was.
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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it there.
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Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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We've got a very difficult situation created by this embrace of the so-called Arab Spring. And that's not getting better. It's getting worse. The carnage for the people of Syria is horrific, and it's quite frankly too little, too late to reverse a lot of that.
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For my own part, I have been wont to converse with poverty; and however disagreeable a companion she may be thought to be by the affluent and luxurious, who were never acquainted with her, I can live happily with her the remainder of my life if I can thereby contribute to the redemption of my country.
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Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.
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If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.
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I like to post positive content, and I like to try and make people smile. That's why those videos are popular. I don't fake it.
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If you're the Olympic champion then they have to wait four more years to get you again.
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For a while I was suicidal and I tried to kill myself. I think I should have died about four times.
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It was one of those things that I set forth as a goal after my surgery. I have been working very hard with the trainers and the team personnel.
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Being an athlete helps me get those grandiose emotions of pleasure and pain that are involved in sports.
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I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.
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By investing others with the power to dictate who you are, you rob yourself of an opportunity to truly grow. You shortchange yourself by devaluing the experiences and knowledge you've banked, all those things that have been making you, you.
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It's like nothing's really happening. Our culture is almost dead.
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But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.
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So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
