Andre Maurois Quotes
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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I'm going into my first Olympics, whereas people I'm racing against are going into their third and fourth and probably last Olympics. So there's more pressure on them to perform. I've still got a whole future ahead of me. I am not even the Olympic champ.
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I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.
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We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.
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I founded Camellia Network with my dear friend Isis Dallis Keigwin. The mission of our organization is to create a national network that connects every youth aging out of foster care to the critical resources, opportunities, and support they need to thrive in adulthood.
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I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.
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I started breaking out of my shell in sophomore and junior year.
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I've made up my mind. I'll take my court martial.
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The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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Losing my parents really set me adrift in more ways than one. It's not just losing them. It's losing the possibility of family.
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I love being new places and hate getting there, and have been known to say on multiple occasions that I would give anything from a piece of my soul to a limb to a portion of my life savings to teleport. Especially when bad weather keeps me off planes.
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That short, potential stir That each can make but once, That bustle so illustrious Tis almost consequence, Is the eclat of death.
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I believe in the sanctity of marriage.
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My second marriage was to a girl I met in Manchester, kept a long-distance relationship going for two years, then we got married... disaster.
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The purpose of marriage is not to have pleasure and to be idle but to procreate and bring up children, to support a household. This, of course, is a huge burden full of great cares and toils. But you have been created by God to be a husband or a wife and that you may learn to bear these troubles.
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A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
