Door Quotes
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The eight-year-long Algerian war was to bring down six French prime ministers, open the door to de Gaulle - and come close to destroying him, too. The war was the last of the grand-style colonial struggles, but, perhaps more to the point, it was also the first campaign in which poorly equipped Muslim mujahedin licked one of the top Western armies.
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You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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The heart of a girl is like a convent--the holier the cloister, the more charitable the door.
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The happiest moments of my childhood were spent on my grandmother's front porch in Durham, N.C., or at her sister's farmhouse in Orange County, where chickens paraded outside the kitchen's screen door and hams were cured in the smokehouse.
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When I do a fashion show, it's not done until it exits out of the door.
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When I was six years old, a children's agent moved in next door to us, sent me out on a commercial audition, and I got the job.
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You want to be a trader, come be a trader. The door's open. You want to travel six days a week, you want to travel the world, the door's open.
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I've always been a firm believer that you don't have to close one door in order to open another.
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It was easy when you were younger, you can put it back together, it was there if you ever wanted it but you closed the door and said goodbye for good.
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Keep focused on the substantive issues. To make a decision means having to go through one door and closing all others.
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Evolution .. Just the right formula of science and comedy may get moviegoers through the door.
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I've learned that I shouldn't shrink from success. Though honestly I thought they'd be knocking on my door years ago.
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No one's kicking down the door to fight Bernard Hopkins.
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Add there was that moment when my mother and father walked in the door disguised as old people. I thought the miles in the car had bent them, dulled their eyes, even grayed and whitened their hair and caused their hands and voices to tremble. At the same time, I found, as I rose form the chair, I'd gotten old along with them.
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It's much easier to fail when you're in the pilot, early stage, when it's less expensive and you're exploring than when you're way out the door and you've spent all this money. Industry is smart: structured to have skunkworks and pilot phases.
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When one door closes another door opens. Usually a refrigerator.
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You know how easily and suddenly these things happen, beginning in playful teasing and ending in something a little warmer than friendship. You squeeze the slender arm which is passed through yours, you venture to take the little gloved hand, you say good night at absurd length in the shadow of the door. It is innocent and very interesting, love trying his wings in a first little flutter.
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Our challenge is not to educate the children we used to have or want to have, but to educate the children who come to the schoolhouse door.
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I pause at the door, wishing I could find a corner and sleep until my head clears, but the sailor said the abbess is expecting me, and while I do not know much about abbesses, I suspect they are not fond of waiting.
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Death is the opening-and the closing-of a Door.
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All new beginnings require that you unlock a new door.
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I never answer if someone knocks on my door and only the band and my manager have my phone number. In any case my phone doesn't ring so I never notice it. I occasionally just walk past and pick it up to see if anyone's there.
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If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
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A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens.
