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.
Octavio Paz -
I love myself. Anything that has my name I'm tickled to death.
Barbara Corcoran -
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.
Adam D'Angelo -
I don't think Joe Louis could take the punches today fighting in this era.
Larry Holmes -
I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
Rachael Taylor -
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.
Eden Sher
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
Lady Bird Johnson -
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.
Damien Chazelle -
The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
Maggie Smith -
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.
Waite Hoyt -
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.
Samuel Alexander -
I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.
J. P. Donleavy
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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.
Takeshi Kitano -
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.
Barry Zito -
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.
Daniel Barenboim -
Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.
Malcolm Lowry -
Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
Ted Shackelford -
Don't take 'no' for an answer.
Abdullah II of Jordan
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We ought, so far as it lies within our power, to aspire to immortality, and do all that we can to live in conformity with the highest that is within us; for even if it is small in quantity, in power and preciousness, it far excels all the rest.
Aristotle -
Men kill for many reasons, they steal but for one-greed.
Sharon Kay Penman -
Perhaps he was a bumpkin; at least he was an honest bumpkin.
Tad Williams -
That was the day that I promised I'd never sing of love that does not exist. but darling, You are the only exception.
Hayley Williams Paramore -
I hope I don't become just an animation [with a digital film].
Keanu Reeves -
All human wisdom is contained in these words: Wait and hope!
Alexandre Dumas