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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I would say I'm more fascinated by Big Daddy V than I am necessarily a huge fan of Big Daddy V. He simply threw on the double-strapped unitard... and now he's some sort of fearsome, fighting, wrecking machine.
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I've worked in so many areas -- I'm sort of a dilettante. Basically, I'm not interested in doing research and I never have been.
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What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
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For a long time I did not want to do television because I did not want to get stuck playing the same person. I wanted the ongoing challenge of a variety of roles.
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Most of the well-known American feminists of the 19th century did not come out against the institution of marriage.
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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
