Andre Maurois Quotes

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

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• If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.

  

  Ira Glass
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• Whenever I am losing, it's like, 'It's his fault'. And whenever I'm winning it's like, 'That's us'. That's the team, the people.

  

  Marat Safin
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• A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.

  

  Camille Paglia
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• My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.

  

  Hansika Motwani
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• I remember someone once said there is a practical aspect to my designs, and I remember thinking, 'That doesn't sound so creative,' but that is actually the truth. There is a practicality to it. I don't design just to design. There is a reason and, hopefully, an interesting reason behind it - that is where my creativity comes in.

  

  Kate Spade
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• I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.

  

  Randy Travis
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• 'Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.

  

  Gary Bauer
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• There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

  

  Jack Kemp
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• I know I look super young.

  

  Rachel Bilson
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• When Hillary was First Lady, we went to the Beijing Women's Conference. She courageously stood up and spoke out on behalf of human rights and women's rights, inspiring millions to fight for a better future.

  

  Madeleine Albright
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• When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.

  

  Valerie Plame
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• A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'

  

  Edgar Wright
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• I'm an actor. That's what I'm gifted at. It's what makes me breathe.

  

  Samantha Morton
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• I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.

  

  Nancy Astor
  • Age
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• When I watch myself, I see nothing but faults, like, 'This I need to do different, this I need to do different,' and so if there comes a point in time where I'm like, 'Man, this whole thing is just getting really stale,' I am not opposed to being the bad guy again.

  

  Daniel Bryan
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• My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
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• None of us has any personal interest above the interests of the country. Our country is more important than our careers.

  

  Fidel Castro
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• Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.

  

  Larry Elder
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• Writing the first draft of a new story is incredibly difficult for me. I will happily do revisions, because once I can see the words on the page, I can go about ripping them up and moving scenes around. A blank page, though? Terrifying. I'm always angsty when I'm working my way through a first draft.

  

  Marie Lu
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• I just think age is meaningless. It's a system we've all agreed to that supposedly signals when we should develop, reach our peak and go downhill, as they say. It interferes with our natural growth.

  

  Peter Horton
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• I do think that there are people who are able to connect with and empathize with anyone who is going through something difficult, just naturally. I don't think it's a world of effort for everyone.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • World
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• We are the masters of our fate, the captains of our souls, because we have the power to control our thoughts.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Power
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• Once you compromise yourself in one way, you compromise yourself in another way. And you've just opened the door to compromise, mediocrity, settling.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
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• An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

  

  Andre Maurois
  • Age