Andre Gide Quotes

It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

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• If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.

  

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• There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
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• Everything is global now. It's not London, it's not Spain, it's not Italy - everything is everywhere. So you have to be everywhere, I guess.

  

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• We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.

  

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• I have an iPod, but I put my music in it from my CDs, and then I have that CD in my library.

  

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• One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.

  

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• It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.

  

  Karen Kain
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• 'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A.

  

  Bailey Chase
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• I know it's a guy thing to chest bump, but me and my dancers chest bump before hitting the stage. Not too hard though...ouch!

  

  Manika
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• I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.

  

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• I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.

  

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• Some people remaster their records six, seven times, remix it three, four times, spend a million hours, then they always go back and hear a demo of it and they'll say, 'Aw that sounds so much better than the final mix.'

  

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• I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up.

  

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• When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.

  

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• I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.

  

  Uma Thurman
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• I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.

  

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• Never mind money; the gifts of time and skill call into being the richest marketplace in the world.

  

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• A lot of movies that come from Israel are about war, but there is such good, funny, rounded writing that comes from the country that I wish more people would discover.

  

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• I like to sit and talk to someone, and if they want to write about it, OK. But when it's a chore, I have a choice. There's a choice for all of us, including me.

  

  Katharine Ross

• You're only dealing with whatever you know, which is a very small part of it and later on it'll look like it has something to do with the period. Obviously, the artists have something to do with one another. They tend to set up certain common qualities among themselves.

  

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• Race horses are like golfers, you're never sure how they're going to come out of the stalls. It's just - hopefully the horses come out of the race all right, just fit and ready to go again in the near future, but 3rd was good. It's paid for its hay.

  

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• I don't want to lose my fitness. I'm 45. I have two babies. I've got a long way to go and I want to keep in tiptop shape. There's no magic bullet.

  

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• Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

  

  Andre Gide

• It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

  

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