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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Playing the good guy is tough because you know as well as I do, in real life, you have to watch your P's and Q's and conduct yourself in a respectable manner if you expect to have friends.
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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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It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
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When my marriage broke up... I had just put on 45 pounds for my 'Shall We Dance?' character. I had to eat 10,000 calories a day just to put on weight while training with Tony Dovolani. I basically stayed in bed for a six-month rotation of depression naps. Dance helped me lose the weight.
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My mother, brave woman, lost her whole family when she decided to marry a black man in the '60s. When the marriage fell apart, she had to come back to her family.
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A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life.
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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
