Alphonse Karr Quotes
Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
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And it's a question of how far we're willing to go in order to let the ego shine, in order to let that beacon penetrate not only the local scene but the world.
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Most people don't really like to pose. It is difficult to get them to be present and relaxed under this kind of molecular scrutiny. I want them to understand I'm not simply painting them: I am painting them within a precise moment in time, as a shadow moves across their eyebrows. Then it is gone. The moment is over.
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My favorite charity is the Women's Refugee Commission and the Nomi network.
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The wellbeing of the head resounds throughout the whole body, and as are the Superiors, so, in turn, will their subjects be.
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Football is made up of all kinds of conflict. In a dressing room, between players, between us and the manager, between us and loads of people who don't seem to matter. It's constant and harsh sometimes.
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The message of the free world to any potential Palestinian leadership should be a simple one: Embrace democratic reform and we will embrace you.
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I love doing theater. That's where my home is.
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I wouldn't trade anything for family time. To me, it is more important than everything else, and I have a very deep-rooted belief in it, which is influenced by my Jewish faith. That's a very great source of who I am and what I believe in.
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O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
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I learned about poise and dignity, and I learned about what it means to be an African-American in television and what that requires in terms of what kind of position you take for yourself and how you define your own reality in a world that is still finding its footing, to say the least.
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Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.
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But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can't tell you how frustrating it was that they didn't get that. No joke - I'd leave meetings crying all the time.
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Run the creature has come, there's no cover for you no prize When you've won.
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The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.
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I think that if I’m still here in ten thousand years, I’m going to be crazy as hell. Ten thousand years, pal! Ten thousand years ago, the state-of-the-art was a goat. You really think you’re going to be anything recognizably human in a hundred centuries?
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'Lars would talk his way into their pants. Kirk had a babyface that was appealing to the girls. And Cliff; he had a big dick. Word got around about that, I guess.' James Hetfield - Playboy April 2001.
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If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.
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No one ever took music away from me, but I’m damned if it ever sounds quite as good as it used to when I was twenty.
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A good night in is a series of documentaries.
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A good scientific theory should be explicable to a barmaid.
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The physical thing of having a man following you around all day trying to take your photograph - it's eerie. There is a pure physical response. If you go up and kick a dog, it will bite you. But with photographers, you can't do that.
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Celebrate your existence!
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How many prison years in the years since Christ!
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Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
