Alfred de Musset Quotes
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I'm ready to stretch my legs. I'm ready to jump in the ring.
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I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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Today, I guess I give a lot more thought to the roles before I sign them.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.
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I'm more of a guy's girl. I like having a beer in a bar, and I don't bicker or sit down and do my nails.
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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
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When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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I won't join another band again.
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We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.
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There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, 'look!'
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We are wedded to freedom of expression and shall do nothing to diminish that freedom.
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It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you.
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Statistics is the grammar of science.
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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
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Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.
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...why did Plato say that poets should be chased out of the republic? Precisely because every poet and every artist is an antisocial being. He's not that way because he wants to be; he can't be any other way.... and if he really is an artist it is in his nature not to want to be admitted, because if he is admitted it can only mean he is doing something which is understood, approved, and therefore old hat - worthless. Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized.
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My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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One must not trifle with love.
