Andre Maurois Quotes
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Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.
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While the older generation is content to sit around and critique culture, that culture is moving beyond them. At some point the traditional church and all of the expressions of that church will become essentially irrelevant.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who's the same age as me and wanted the limelight, wanted the attention. There's lots of girls out there who do.
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I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.
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There are moments when I can't believe I'm as old as I am. But I feel better physically than I did 10 years ago. I don't think, Oh God, I'm missing something.
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The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
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I love my sleep.
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A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.
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Every member of Congress deserves a seat at the table to be involved in the process. I will continue fighting for this to become a reality in Washington, and will be running for speaker of the House.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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The tax incentives in place for 'House of Cards' in Maryland have resulted in hundreds and hundreds of jobs and not just for actors, but for carpenters and waitresses and hotel workers. The amount of hotel nights and meals that the production of a television series brings to a state is staggering.
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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Growing up, I thought I was going to be Madonna. I wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to dance and sing.
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I am the worlds laziest writer.
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I don't like having to be pushed into a box.
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A star may guarantee business, but the tradeoff is a very short run.
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What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not a star but a tree, and the tree itself, is a problem for philosophy.
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There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.
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It's always weird being the only white person in a group. It feels like everyone's looking to me for guidance.
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I am well aware that, if my endorsement is meaningful and helpful to Huckabee, it is because my father devoted so much of his life and ministry to cultural reform.
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Though we live amid promiscuous pressures, spiritual clutter and forgetfulness, we probably still value the integrity of life.
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I'm also not going to explain something just because I said it in a rap. Take what you want from it.
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The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.
