Andre Gide Quotes
I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
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I love my wife, I love my kids.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.
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In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
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Our children and grandchildren are not going to have the same standard of living unless we educate that workforce.
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The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who's the same age as me and wanted the limelight, wanted the attention. There's lots of girls out there who do.
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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.
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I just cannot imagine why anyone would want to be really famous. You go to a restaurant and people are pointing at you and they talk about you and they whisper and it is very disconcerting; it is a very odd feeling.
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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I'm still learning how to do things - like lining my eyes? Forget it.
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There's nothing I like more than picking fresh vegetables then putting them in the dinner you make that night.
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The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?
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I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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People are deeply imbedded in philosophical, i.e., grammatical confusions. And to free them presupposes pulling them out of the immensely manifold connections they are caught up in.
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Charm them with your presence as soon as they look at you.
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'Sailor Moon' was my favorite cartoon of all time, and I'm still kind of obsessed with it. I own all the DVDs to watch it at home.
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My mother taught us that ambition is part of femininity and really taught us to have substance but also style.
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If I were a better artist, I'd be a painter, and if I were a better writer, I'd write books - but I'm not, so I draw cartoons!
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I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
