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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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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Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
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We have Jews, Muslims, Hindus, atheists, agnostics, Buddhists, and their own path to grace is one that we have to revere and respect as much as our own
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The more laws and orders are multiplied, the more theft and violence increase.
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Not only virtue, but also insight, not only sanctity but also wisdom, are the duties and tasks of mankind.
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No day of my life passes without someone saying the words 'Monty Python' to me. It's not bad.
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You have to look at the value of different kinds of words. Adjectives weaken, and adverbs come even farther down the line. Verbs are strong; verbs and nouns.
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All human wisdom is contained in these words: Wait and hope!
