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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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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If you gay, you gay. Like, that's your preference, you know?
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A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on.
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The songs I've written that are the strongest, I'm like: 'I don't know where that came from. It just kind of popped out.' You feel you can't take a whole lot of credit for it. I didn't purposefully will it into existence.
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When I started out, at the CBC in Toronto, there was so little work. It was a different world from what it is now. Now we're blessed with so much production in so many Canadian cities.
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Growing up, all I saw was my parents trying to be the best people they could be, and people coming to them for wisdom, coming to them for guidance, and them not putting themselves on a pedestal, but literally being face-to-face with these people and saying, "I'm no better than you, but the fact that you're coming to me to reach some sort of enlightenment or to shine a light on something, that makes me feel love and gratitude for you." They always give back what people give to them. And sometimes they keep giving and giving and giving.
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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.
