Andre Gide Quotes
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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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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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Don't tell your kids you had an easy birth or they won't respect you. For years I used to wake up my daughter and say, 'Melissa, you ripped me to shreds. Now go back to sleep.'
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After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
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As a civil servant in charge of the government's Strategy Unit, I brought in many people from outside government, including academia and science, to work in the unit, dissecting and solving complex problems from GM crops to alcohol, nuclear proliferation to schools reform.
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I handle screenings and award ceremonies really badly.
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For many years I thought I was bisexual. And then I would ask myself, 'What is bisexual? Does that even exist?'
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A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.
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I got out while they were still fighting to buy tickets to hear me. I believe in getting out when you're on top, and that's what I did.
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Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
