Andre Gide Quotes
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You know, I am a Leo. Lion is a giant part of me.
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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can't do anything, but it really isn't true.
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You can't fake being a star. But you can also become a great personality.
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If you see a player out in public having dinner, chances are he's with his boring money manager or some boring rich guy he hopes to design a golf course for.
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I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political.
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You parents of the wilful and the wayward! Don't give them up. Don't cast them off. They are not utterly lost. The Shepherd will find his sheep. They were His before they were yours - long before He entrusted them to your care; and you cannot begin to love them as He loves them.
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I pass through the difficult moments in life, really difficult times on grass, during my seven years of my career. All of a sudden I felt comfortable.
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My workout involves cardio, jogging, and yoga as well. I am a firm believer of yoga and meditation.
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The trouble with photographing beautiful women is that you never get into the dark room until after they've gone.
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Developing compassion for Congress and politicians is a good way to begin practicing the new social activism if you want to make effective changes in the world. Perhaps the most startling new insight of all is that there is no other way to effectively change the world.
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Jews must be able to live with enemies and defend themselves from them. The hatred for Israel has not disappeared.
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I was made fun of at a young age. I would fight a lot in the streets, and it has a lot to do with the way I am today. It helped my development as a fighter, but what can I say?
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I used to clean the sets and serve tea to the artistes.
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Why do human beings need to confess? Maybe if you don’t have that secret confession, you don’t have a poem - don’t even have a story. Don’t have a writer. If most poetry doesn’t seem to be in any sense confessional, it’s because the strategy of concealment, of obliquity, can be so compulsive that it’s almost entirely successful.
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From a drop of water, a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.
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All those words of praise they use for novels – spare, economical. Why should I shell out £17 for economical?
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I think the biggest part of a good party is the host and then going around making sure nobody's left alone and knows enough about the people in the room to know who to introduce to whom.
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Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.
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If I have a preference, I'd rather have a home-cooked meal than go out to the fanciest place.
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I know there isn't no beast—not with claws and all that, I mean—but I know there isn't no fear, either." Piggy paused. "Unless—" Ralph moved restlessly. "Unless what?" "Unless we get frightened of people.
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It doesn't matter how many times I've played 'Brown Sugar', I never get tired of playing it.
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Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
