Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.
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I have my team. Like if you see everyone around me - I have my hair and makeup girl, my assistant. They're very calm, they're all about positive energy. There're no drama queens. Everyone wants everyone else to have a positive experience. There are no agendas. I think it creates a healthy environment and there are no boundaries to cross.
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Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.
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People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.
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The journalistic endeavor - at least theoretically - is grounded in objectivity. The goal is to get you to understand what happened, when and to whom.
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I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.
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If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.
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Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies against monopoly, deception, and fraud.
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There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
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Entrepreneurship requires flexibility and an open society, and there will always be people who succeed and people who follow. For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them.
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If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey's records on.
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I think art is more glorious than life but not more real.
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Helmet was joined to helmet, and spear to spear, and jewels, baggage, and elephants without number went with them, and you would have said it was a host that none could understand.
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You'd have to be an idiot to say no to 'Hunger Games.'
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The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight; he loses part of his future. He's a step closer to the slum he came from.
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The regulation of medicine has been a State function.
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Every major technological step forward has profoundly changed human society - that's how we know they're major, even if we don't always realise it at the time. Farming created cities. Writing, followed eventually by printing, vastly increased the preservation and transmission of cultural information across time and space.
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A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
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I have an equal amount of patience as my grade-school children, which is not great.
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Most of our cities built since the war are bland. They're modernist, they're cold, and now architects want to go back to that.
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As I go to sleep I remember what my father said-that one can never be sure if one will awake. The way my health is now, this is becoming more and more real.
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I remember li'l ol' Hank Jr. - he was just a baby back in them days, you know - but he used to hang around. His mama would bring him around. He was just a natural.
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...remember that what has once been done may be done again.
