Andre Maurois Quotes
Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
Quotes to Explore
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To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.
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Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
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It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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I understand those who don't like me.
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It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
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Sometimes it takes dealing with a disability - the trauma, the relearning, the months of rehabilitation therapy - to uncover our true abilities and how we can put them to work for us in ways we may have never imagined.
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The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.
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I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.
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When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
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We are hopeful that President Obama, in his State of the Union Address, will express a willingness to work with Republicans to enact all of these jobs bills.
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The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.
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I'm pretty much a straight guy on 'The Office.' We can't all be crazies. You need some balance.
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Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
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As soon as there is life there is danger.
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There's a kind of numbness, a sameness, a lack of motivation in 'good job' culture.
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To all the young kids of color - and not so young - people who want to use their voices, who are thinking, 'This seems difficult because I don't see myself out there,' I tell you, you must be persistent because we need you. We need you so, so badly.
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The key words of violent economics are urbanization, industrialization, centralization, efficiency, quantity, speed. . . . The problem of evolving a nonviolent way of economic life [in the West] and that of developing the underdeveloped countries may well turn out to be largely identical.
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If it would sell tickets, I'd stand on my head in the middle of Times Square at noon.
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Man have to have friends even in hell.
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Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
