Andre Maurois Quotes
Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.
Quotes to Explore
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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Wild fish are under threat of extinction because they're hunted to feed us. Yet land animals that we farm are under no threat of extinction. Shifting from hunting fish to farming fish - where the farmers have the incentive to keep their stocks healthy - could do a tremendous amount of good for wild fish.
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The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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The stage of the development of the productive forces determines the political and ideological superstructure of society which are crystallized into a system of social organization.
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In my next life, I want to be a housecat. Naps all the time!
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?
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The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.
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I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.
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The thing that comes most frequently to me on yoga retreats is excruciating pain in my hips.
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There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.
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I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.
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I have a strong affinity for animals.
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I'm not the biggest horror fan. I get scared so easily. If I'm just walking on set, and someone taps me on the shoulder, I scream and jump and freak out.
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We used to play football on the levee, with no shirts on in the summer - August in New Orleans - and my skin would turn red. They'd call me Redskin, Red Apache, then it turned around to Apache Red.
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Anyway, Cat Stevens is never going to make much money out of us.
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The best way to travel abroad is to live with the locals.
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I wanted to get a job being creative, and I did.
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I didn't think about it at the time, but of course now I realize that my father's insistence that we Jews must be better was based on our country's firm belief that we were not as good.
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I don't understand when people are being greedy or mean, when they say who should get what, when they get control of someone else's life.
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We can say, 'OK, I'm going to be in the car for an hour; what can I do to improve my quality of life during that hour?'
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Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.
