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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Our way is straight and clear - the building up of a socialist democracy at home, with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations abroad.
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I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.
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As Americans after 9/11, we're much more united, together as a nation, and we got stronger, better, and more at peace. By peace, I mean the harmony you can feel in our united determination to fight these terrorists and killers.
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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've laid my friends bare.
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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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On 24 August 1939, as an officer in the reserve, I had to join my regiment in Potsdam.
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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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The SEC got more than 100 rules to write under Dodd-Frank, the lion's share of all the agencies. And we've moved, I think, with a tremendous sense of urgency. But it takes a long time to write rules and get them approved by a five-member commission.
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Any time you challenge a big powerful person or special interest, there's going to be blowback.
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I--though heart might find relief Did I become a Christian man and choose for my belief What seems most welcome in the tomb--play a predestined part. Homer is my example and his unchristened heart.
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The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
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When a man resolves to avenge himself, he should first of all tear out the heart from his breast.
