Andre Maurois Quotes
We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.
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I began going to juvenile prisons. And some of these kids face some very, very tough lives. How do they handle these lives? Do they even know that if their life is bad, that they're still OK? Do they know that? Do they know that someone is thinking the same way that they're thinking?
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My focus has been and will continue to be on doing my job.
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'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.
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For whatever reason, various outlets and individuals are committed to making the world think that young girls don't talk or care about feminism anymore, that it's totally over. But it's not.
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You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.
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I was gay before I began to play soccer over 40 years ago. It's been 28 years since a friend and I organized one of the first gay soccer teams in the world.
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I'm the guy who's started businesses, I've been a small business owner. I've employed hundreds of Pennsylvanians. I know how to get jobs moving in the private sector, rein in the excesses in Washington, and bring some balance to a town that's lost all balance.
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No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
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Growing up, you'd see Michael Jordan on everything from Gatorade to shoes - everything. Obviously, that's something pretty cool for an athlete to aspire to.
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Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?
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'Hugo Chávez is going to make Venezuela a launching pad for communist infiltration and Muslim extremism all over the continent... he is an out-of-control dictator... a dangerous enemy to our south, controlling a huge pool of oil that could hurt us very badly.' 6
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Any child who cannot do long division by himself does not deserve to smoke.
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Nothing can replace the excitement, the magic and yes the glamour of a Ziegfeld show. To see the great showman sitting in the second row busily writing his telegrams is a thrill no actress can forget.
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Who weeps for these, weeps for corruption!
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Quasi ascosi avea gli occhi ne la testa,La faccia macra, e come un osso asciutta,La chioma rabuffata, orrida e mesta,La barba folta, spaventosa e brutta.
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I always wanted to make sure my parents didn't have to work again for the rest of their lives.
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In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.
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Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.
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I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.
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I always say, 'Obama is my president - the president of the world.'
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We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.
