Alexandre Dumas Quotes
I came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I’d have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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I went to quite an academic school, and all my friends were going to university, but even before my acting jobs, I didn't want to do that. I didn't want to spend another three years being institutionalised, and I feel that getting out of that system benefited me in quite a few ways.
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To come in and win three races already this year and maybe set a record by winning four is pretty unique. But guys like Mark Martin, Rusty Wallace and these guys are not wanting that to happen.
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The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.
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AI does not keep me up at night. Almost no one is working on conscious machines. Deep learning algorithms, or Google search, or Facebook personalization, or Siri or self driving cars or Watson, those have the same relationship to conscious machines as a toaster does to a chess-playing computer.
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Being called 'conscious' is a great thing to be, but it's the connotations and preconceived notions that come with the buying audience about what conscious music can be.
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The man or nation of high culture may acknowledge to great lengths the restraints imposed by conventions and honour, but beyond a certain point, primitive will or desire cannot be curbed.
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You don't protect Mark McGwire. The only way to protect him is hit 70 homers yourself.
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I struggle because I love food and sometimes I can't stop eating.
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I think that the stuff I write for pop music is terribly, terribly cheesy.
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When we started out doing YouTube videos, I think we were very, very early on in terms of people doing a behind-the-scenes component.
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My lab used to do gene expression and genomics, and we did a lot of sequencing samples from virus outbreaks.
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Even for runners who never make the transition to more sophisticated workouts, easing into speedwork will lead to more enjoyable running.
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I left my career in Hollywood, moved back to New York, and went to Lee Strasberg and studied with him for the rest of his life.
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Good acting is about being as natural and calm as possible. These days producers have such definite ideas that you have to be prepared to do whatever they ask.
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I look in music magazines now and see things on Luther Allison, and my name's getting out there more, thanks to all the good people at Alligator Records and at my management company.
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Election days come and go. But the struggle of the people to create a government which represents all of us and not just the one percent - a government based on the principles of economic, social, racial and environmental justice - that struggle continues.
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To wake up in England and have the newspaper on your front door with a headline that says, 'Ozzie's Beach Whale of a Daughter,' doesn't really do much for your self-esteem at all.
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I don't spend and save whenever I have spare cash. I dislike people who boast about money.
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First you learn the value of abstraction, then you learn the cost of abstraction, then you're ready to engineer.
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People always have something to say about how long is too long or not long enough to breastfeed. I think this is such a personal decision that it can only be made between each baby and his or her mommy.
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Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.
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I came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I’d have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.
