Andre Maurois Quotes
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With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's a certain kind of academic who undervalues realism, largely because it is not amenable to endless exegesis.
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Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.
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Oh, I've become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn't this great race.
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What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people - ideas that people typed into a computer, tested, and that turned out to be the best idea for a database or for a programming language.
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I'm extremely well recognized in Korea just because of what I do on the ice, and there is a lack of that in Canada because hockey is our sport and it will be for eternity.
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If I can hit the ball the way I want to hit it on the range, I'd rather do that than play golf. I just love the feeling of hitting good golf shots.
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Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.
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I've never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to women, buy them diamonds.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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A few years ago, there were requests to me, Can we make this? I said that I have no rights. Contact the Hitchcock estate, which won't release it for a remake.
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I'm not the biggest Miley Cyrus fan. I'm not the risque type.
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Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate.
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I've actually tried to give Brett Ratner dance lessons, but he thinks he already knows how to.
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Whenever we find that our religious life is making us feel that we are good - above all, that we are better than someone else - I think we may be sure that we are being acted on, not by God, but by the devil.
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He is very calm-very, very calm. Never raises his voice. Well-informed, contrary to the sense outside that he is ill-informed and isolated. And decisive.
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The more words I learned, the more I started to verbalize my feelings. Whenever my mom or dad would compliment me by saying something like 'Good boy,' I'd immediately correct them. 'No. Good girl.'
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As is commonly said, ‘to start anything is simple; to develop it and bring it to a successful culmination takes great effort.’
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Business is a combination of war and sport.
