Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.
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I love myself. Anything that has my name I'm tickled to death.
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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I don't think Joe Louis could take the punches today fighting in this era.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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I love the holidays on 'The Middle' because I feel like I'm getting that very traditional American holiday experience that I never had growing up.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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I think, especially living in L.A., it's very easy to get wrapped up in weekend announcements and the trades and the whole social life of the city, and to get divorced from what actually matters.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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Joe Dugan, who was my roommate on the Yankees, was an honorary pallbearer, too. He was standing next to me as they were carrying the Babe down the steps of St. Pat's Cathedral here in New York. There must have been 5,000 people standing around on the sides of the street, and it was tremendous.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.
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Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
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I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.
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I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but because I'm not good at any of these things.
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I think in the bullpen you can tell during your warmups, if you have a good feel for it. But anything can happen once you get into a game. Sometimes you just wind up throwing it better than ever before one day without knowing why.
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US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the face, in the Muslim world they will always be perceived as partisan.
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Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.
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One of my first role models was Eugene Lang, a wealthy businessman who went back to his elementary school in East Harlem and addressed the sixth-grade class. He looked out at that sea of faces and said, "If any of you wants to go to college, I will pay for it." When I read that, I burst into tears. It was so generous and so basic. Not fluffy. I can't understand why we scrimp on education and shortchange our kids. Why would the citizenry do that to the people who are going to inherit its republic?
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We must seek support in the moral values that have ensured the progress of our civilization. Honesty and hard work, responsibility and faith in our strength are bound to bring us success. There should be no place for despondency. The crisis can and must be fought by uniting our intellectual, spiritual and material resources.
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The hope of the world lies in the rehabilitation of the living human being, not just the body but also the soul.
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Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason.
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Her hope—and mine—was that a book about the children would make us all hear, that it would make us all stop and listen.
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All human wisdom is contained in these words: Wait and hope!
