Alexandre Dumas Quotes
When a man resolves to avenge himself, he should first of all tear out the heart from his breast.
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I'm going to do the old 'plaster removal' technique and just get the pain over with in one go: 'Life's Too Short' isn't funny to me.
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The older I get, the more I realize the importance of maintaining an even temperament - not getting too emotional, focusing on the task at hand. You don't want to make a business deal based on your emotions.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Our suspicions are being confirmed that Nashi will serve as a cover for storm brigades that will use violence against democratic organisations.
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Ceausescu thought I had only a few medals, but I have a room full of them in Bucharest, between 150-200 in all. They needed suitcases to haul them out.
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I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.
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Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
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Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that my books are aimed at.
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I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.
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I want to be on a show that's not sensitive to racial jokes; I want to be on one where they call me everything and I call them right back. There's blatant racism going both ways. That's what we need.
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I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.
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I was born in Jerusalem with a religious background and a rabbi as a father... it was rather poor, but what we did have, we did have books.
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The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.
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I booked my first series when I was 13. Acting kind of took control because I was just going from part to part at that point.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.
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Today, I marvel at the vegan foods in the supermarket, at the cruelty-free clothing choices in stores, and at the fantastic alternatives to dissection in schools, the modern ways to test medicines without killing rabbits and beagles, the many forms of entertainment involving purely human performers.
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I think human nature is eternal and constant.
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p. 162-3 ; as cited in Albert Lepawsky (1949), Administration, p. 15-16
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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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Christmas is based on an exchange of gifts, the gift of God to man - His unspeakable gift of His Son, and the gift of man to God - when we present our bodies a living sacrifice.
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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
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Tell a scoundrel, three or four times a day, that he is the pink of probity, and you make him at least the perfection of "respectability" in good earnest. On the other hand, accuse an honorable man, too petinaciously, of being a villain, and you fill him with a perverse ambition to show you that you are not altogether in the wrong.
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When a man resolves to avenge himself, he should first of all tear out the heart from his breast.
