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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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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I enjoy fighting, but my family says, 'Stop, no.'
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Often there are players who have only football as a way of expressing themselves and never develop other interests. And when they no longer play football, they no longer do anything; they no longer exist, or rather they have the sensation of no longer existing.
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I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels.
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If the Spirit of God detects anything in you that is wrong, He doesn't ask you to make it right; He only asks you to accept the light of truth, and then He will make it right. A child of the light will confess sin instantly and stand completely open before God. But a child of the darkness will say, “Oh, I can explain that.
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When I first start writing a song, I usually write the title first, then the song, and I'll sing the song in my head and think of a visual of the song. If I can't think of a visual behind the song, I'll throw the song away.
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Let us die as soon as possible, and by whatever process God shall appoint. And when we are dead to the world, and nature, and self, we shall begin to live to God.
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We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.
