Andre Maurois Quotes
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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The gift of sobriety is clarity and a sense of connection - and travel only enhances that.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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Artists are like everybody else.
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Don't get between me and a really good picture in the darkroom, because then I want to go straight to the darkroom and develop it. But once that's done, I'm fine.
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.
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The great thing about a culture of givers is that's not a delusion - it's reality.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves.
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To discover the true principles of Morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods: They have need only of common sense.
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I am pretty tough as a boss.
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Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.
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I'm ready for a different America.
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I have never made a game that wasn't explicitly about empowering players to tell their own story.
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There's nothing like the buzz of live theater. You put it out there and receive an instant reaction: laughing, crying, yelling, applauding.
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Living in New Zealand, it's like a different world - it is a different world. It's very, very cool.
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Russell Wilson knows who he is. He’s not a running quarterback, he’s not a throwing quarterback – he’s an athlete back there playing the quarterback position. He knows that, he understands it and his team allows him to be who he is.
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Vin Scully has been my broadcasting idol for a long time. He is so humble - he has the exact same work ethic that he had 65 years ago. His family is what he cares about the most, and at the heart of his whole being is his marriage and kids.
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Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.
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I was 21 and had been going out with my boyfriend for two years when I found out I was pregnant - despite being told by doctors that I was sterile. Jamie's father and I hadn't discussed marriage, and to me, it wasn't something to be entered into just to stop gossip.
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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
