Andre Maurois Quotes
People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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My favorite thing to do in this world is to be on the ice playing hockey and try to entertain fans and bring wins to the Chicago Blackhawks.
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Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
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You look in my room and it looks neat enough, but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess!
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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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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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When you're with your club team, every week you have a performance to judge. But when you're with the national team, it's a little different because you might not play for three or four months at a time. Things change constantly.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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Starting out, they told me: 'You're a good-looking guy. We'll put you in this role, and you can be a conduit for the audience into this side of the story.' But I've grown up, and that's not what I want anymore. My concept of the job I do has evolved. And it is a job, nothing more.
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When I say I'm an authentic conservative, it's because when you look at who I am and where I come from, it'd be a lot easier to have grown up a Democrat.
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When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
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Recording a song for a film doesn't take much time; it's hardly an hour's job, but concerts are constant, and so is travelling, so I've to take time out to work on my albums because I'm passionate about creating my own music. When you love something dearly, you set your priorities accordingly.
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A woman should have the right to carry a gun.
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I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
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Sometimes I feel like a man; sometimes I feel like a child.
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I have tried to kill sectarianism, whether in Catholics or Protestants.
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Everyone thinks that I have an Instagram account for my dog, but I did not make that. It's a fan!
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No one will enter the New World Order unless he or she will make a pledge to worship Lucifer. No one will enter the New Age unless he will take a Luciferian Initiation
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Gentlemen of the Convention, your present temper may not mark the healthful pulse of our people. When your enthusiasm has passed, when the emotions of this hour have subsided, we shall find below the storm and passion that calm level of public opinion from which the thoughts of a mighty people are to be measured, and by which final action will be determined.
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People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
