Alfred de Musset Quotes
Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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All I can do is make good music and make it for the fans, not for anybody else.
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I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's going into one gravity belt and having to get back out of it again. And the moon doesn't have a lot to offer as a resource base.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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There was a bit of a comparison that Bret was making between Vince McMahon and my dad. He looked up to Vince as a dad and stuff, and it was a shame to see the whole thing end the way it did.
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The children break all my jewelry, so everything I wear is cheap - from Topshop or Dorothy Perkins.
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I definitely want my fans to know that I'm here to stay, and I'm going to continue to give them hot music.
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I think when you're doing good work, you don't necessarily need to be validated.
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That's the one regret I have in all the years that I've played professional sports, that I didn't win a championship in the N.F.L. And that's why you play on any level of team sports: you want to win a championship as part of a team.
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You can be romantically interested in someone and love them and still, I think, be really interested in things and a certain lifestyle that person might provide.
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If you are in business, you are not enjoying. You are working.
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If someone says you're a reporter and doesn't want you to anchor then you wonder why you worked so hard at it.
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Any team can have a bad century.
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I wasn't meant to be an attorney, but I was meant to go to law school.
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I had an interesting day's reading yesterday, with the sudden sensation of being in close contact with what I was reading. ... But as for reading how curious it is: all these books, their lore of the ages, waiting to be embraced but usually slipping out of one's nerveless hands on to the floor. When one reads properly it is as if a third person is present.
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In cloud-ships the gods are wont to travel, and wise cotters have legends that keep them from certain high peaks at night when it is cloudy, for the gods are not lenient as of old.
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Usually, it gets worse and worse as they downsize your character; mine just kept getting better.
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Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
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The hollows are heavy and dank With the steam of the Goldenrods.
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An expectation was there, mixed in with so many other emotions - excitement, resignation, hesitation, confusion, fear - that would well up then wither on the vine. You're optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in the end it does.
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Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.
