Andre Maurois Quotes
If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.
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I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.
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California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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As you know with the Arab Spring, there were no dividends.
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Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings.
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I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
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What I'm concerned about is making sure that every single time somebody who grew up with us goes off to a different platform or a different device, we're going to be there with a Univision-branded product of some kind.
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People shouldn't have to spend a lot of money to get high-quality clothing.
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I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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I was under the false impression that I could sing in high school, so I did a lot of musical stuff. I can't sing or dance, so that was entertaining for everyone.
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I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.
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There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.
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The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.
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With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.
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I love action movies.
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The dilemma for early 21st century journalism is this: Who will pay for the news?
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I used to a lot. I used to go dancing.
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He open'd calm the universal cause, To give each realm its limit and its laws, Bid the last breath of tired contention cease, And bind all regions in the leagues of peace; Till one confederate, condependent sway Spread with the sun and bound the walks of day, One centred system, one all-ruling soul Live thro the parts and regulate the whole.
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Usually the characters I play are men of few words, who communicate in non-verbal ways.
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O tenderly the haughty day Fills his blue urn with fire; One morn is in the mighty heaven, And one in our desire.
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Men killing other men really is an extraordinary phenomenon. Why does it happen? And how long has it gone on? And have the motives changed?
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There was buried in Ruth humanitarianism beyond belief, an intelligence he was never given credit for, a childish desire to be over-virile, living up to credits given his home-run power - and yet a need for intimate affection and respect, and a feverish desire to play baseball, perform, act and live a life he didn't and couldn't take time to understand.
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If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.
