Anatole France Quotes
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Funny, how moms can tell you what to do no matter how old or big you are.
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Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!
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Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
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I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.
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I've known Bret Michaels forever.
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Anyone who has a dog knows that they have some very deep thoughts, that they have moods and emotions, they get their feelings hurt. It's not a far reach to give them opinions and values and long-term desires.
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I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of - of American capitalism.
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I actually think I'm more of a turtle than Verne is. Where Verne is up on two legs and moving at full speed and doesn't pull his head into the shell very often, I in reality was five or ten minutes later to every recording session.
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Our overriding interest throughout these past few years has been to encourage a government that legitimately reflects the will of the Egyptian people, and recognizes true democracy as requiring a respect for minority rights and the rule of law, freedom of speech and assembly, and a strong civil society.
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There is no virtue in curiosity. In fact, it might be the most immoral desire a man can possess.
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The happiest mortals on earth are ladies who have been bereaved by the loss of their husbands.
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Apart from cheese and tulips, the main product of the country is advocaat, a drink made from lawyers.
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Our whole political machinery presupposes a people so fundamentally at one that they can safely afford to bicker.
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While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward the mirror is a poor guide.
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The unicorn, through its intemperance and not knowing how to control itself, for the love it bears to fair maidens forgets its ferocity and wildness; and laying aside all fear it will go up to a seated damsel and go to sleep in her lap, and thus the hunters take it.
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It's become very popular in contemporary films to have the twist ending.
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I am always acting, be at a party, at work or in office. My attitude changes from meeting to meeting, from being serious to intense to funny, depending on who is in the room.
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I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
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As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled.
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Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
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If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives: Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win some false friends and true enemies: Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank people will try to cheat you: Be honest anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight: Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous of you: Be happy anyway. The good you do today, will often be forgotten by tomorrow: Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough: Give your best anyway.
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Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.
