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"I watch my contemporaries, and they love to live in the studio and I don't. I have a life. I treat it as a 9-to-5. I try to create something new every day, and then I get on with my life."
Brian McKnight
"I watch my contemporaries, and they love to live in the studio and I don't. I have a life. I treat it as a 9-to-5. I try to create something new every day, and then I get on with my life."
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"What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of vexation! And unbutton another!"
Laurence Sterne
"What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of vexation! And unbutton another!"
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"With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction."
Samuel E. Morison
"With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction."
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"In the unrest of the masses I augur great good. It is by their realizing that their condition of life is not what it ought to be that vast improvements may be accomplished."
Leland Stanford
"In the unrest of the masses I augur great good. It is by their realizing that their condition of life is not what it ought to be that vast improvements may be accomplished."
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"First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life."
Oksana Baiul
"First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life."
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"True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt."
Garth Brooks
"True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt."
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"The Red Sox are a curious thing because so much here is media driven. You can't go fire half your scouts here because they are all friends with the local reporters. Your life is going to hell in the papers."
Michael Lewis
"The Red Sox are a curious thing because so much here is media driven. You can't go fire half your scouts here because they are all friends with the local reporters. Your life is going to hell in the papers."
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"There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working."
Robert Half
"There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working."
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"Seventy percent of success in life is showing up."
Woody Allen
"Seventy percent of success in life is showing up."
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"My life is art. Its how I express God."
Lisa Bonet
"My life is art. Its how I express God."
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"People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly."
Andy Warhol
"People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly."
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"Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it."
Charles R. Swindoll
"Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it."
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"The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries."
Iris Murdoch
"The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries."
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"Crime is one of the leads of the show. If there's ever anything that deals with a character's personal life, you don't have to worry about it getting too crazy. People don't have to worry about character arcs. Each episode is a self-contained unit."
Christopher Meloni
"Crime is one of the leads of the show. If there's ever anything that deals with a character's personal life, you don't have to worry about it getting too crazy. People don't have to worry about character arcs. Each episode is a self-contained unit."
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"You spend ten years of your life being trained to do one thing, and you're being taught to think that it's the most serious thing that anyone could possibly do, and then suddenly you find yourself doing something that in some respects is the epitome of frivolity."
Jonathan Miller
"You spend ten years of your life being trained to do one thing, and you're being taught to think that it's the most serious thing that anyone could possibly do, and then suddenly you find yourself doing something that in some respects is the epitome of frivolity."
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"Love is the foundation from which your decisions about your life should be made."
Darren L. Johnson
"Love is the foundation from which your decisions about your life should be made."
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"Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself."
Pearl S. Buck
"Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself."
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"For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull."
Ralph Nader
"For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull."
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"I live a very real life."
Anastacia
"I live a very real life."
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"I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living."
Harold Budd
"I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living."
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"Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, their codes."
Marilyn French
"Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, their codes."
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"The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed."
Anita Loos
"The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed."
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"The tension between "yes" and "no," between "I can" and "I cannot," makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self."
Anatole Broyard
"The tension between "yes" and "no," between "I can" and "I cannot," makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self."
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"I am just a normal professional with a great job and a great life."
Martin Yan
"I am just a normal professional with a great job and a great life."
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"Anyone who has experienced a certain amount of loss in their life has empathy for those who have experienced loss."
Anderson Cooper
"Anyone who has experienced a certain amount of loss in their life has empathy for those who have experienced loss."
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"Samurai culture did exist really, for hundreds of years and the notion of people trying to create some sort of a moral code, the idea that there existed certain behaviors that could be celebrated and that could be operative in a life."
Edward Zwick
"Samurai culture did exist really, for hundreds of years and the notion of people trying to create some sort of a moral code, the idea that there existed certain behaviors that could be celebrated and that could be operative in a life."
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"I'm one of those people who thinks you can have a happy life and still be an artist."
Shelley Duvall
"I'm one of those people who thinks you can have a happy life and still be an artist."
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"After that, I came back every year. Everyone said, 'Well, when you retire you can move there.' But I said, 'Why should I live my whole life where I don't want to be.'"
Terry Goodkind
"After that, I came back every year. Everyone said, 'Well, when you retire you can move there.' But I said, 'Why should I live my whole life where I don't want to be.'"
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"Everything that has happened to me is of value to me. As painful as certain things are, and have been, and were, there's a use for those things in my life and in my work."
Martin Landau
"Everything that has happened to me is of value to me. As painful as certain things are, and have been, and were, there's a use for those things in my life and in my work."
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"I've been strong and determined all my life about many things I've wanted."
Calvin Klein
"I've been strong and determined all my life about many things I've wanted."
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"You have to count on living every single day in a way you believe will make you feel good about your life - so that if it were over tomorrow, you'd be content with yourself."
Jane Seymour
"You have to count on living every single day in a way you believe will make you feel good about your life - so that if it were over tomorrow, you'd be content with yourself."
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"To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace."
Peace Pilgrim
"To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace."
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"It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me."
Alan Alda
"It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me."
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"The part of my writing I find the most rewarding is when people write to me or speak to me in public to tell me how his or her life has been changed by my books."
Sidney Sheldon
"The part of my writing I find the most rewarding is when people write to me or speak to me in public to tell me how his or her life has been changed by my books."
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"There's people that figure if they hang out with you, all of a sudden they're going to be successes. I've had two or three stalkers in my life."
Dustin Diamond
"There's people that figure if they hang out with you, all of a sudden they're going to be successes. I've had two or three stalkers in my life."
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"No day of my life passes without someone saying the words 'Monty Python' to me. It's not bad."
Eric Idle
"No day of my life passes without someone saying the words 'Monty Python' to me. It's not bad."
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"The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live."
Nicolas de Chamfort
"The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live."
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"Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good."
Daniel P. Moynihan
"Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good."
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"And the more profoundly the science of biology reveals the laws of the life and development of living bodies, the more effective is the science of agronomy."
Trofim Lysenko
"And the more profoundly the science of biology reveals the laws of the life and development of living bodies, the more effective is the science of agronomy."
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"Partly because his life ended before the age of 50, Hamilton was defined by the other founding fathers, and he managed, with amazing consistency, to alienate most of them."
Ron Chernow
"Partly because his life ended before the age of 50, Hamilton was defined by the other founding fathers, and he managed, with amazing consistency, to alienate most of them."
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"All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts."
James Allen
"All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts."
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"I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself."
Larry Niven
"I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself."
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"A real parish is a wondrously beautiful web of human relationship which is given meaning by the man who is Himself the meaning of life."
C. Kilmer Myers
"A real parish is a wondrously beautiful web of human relationship which is given meaning by the man who is Himself the meaning of life."
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"What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough."
Bertolt Brecht
"What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough."
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"He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life."
Pierre Corneille
"He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life."
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"At the end of the program, I tried to talk to the kids a little bit about life skills."
Troy Vincent
"At the end of the program, I tried to talk to the kids a little bit about life skills."
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"Hopefully everybody will just let me get on with my life. I'm going to."
Paul Gascoigne
"Hopefully everybody will just let me get on with my life. I'm going to."
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"I think your life is governed not by the bricks or mortar around you, it's governed by who holds your hand and who spits in your eye."
David McCallum
"I think your life is governed not by the bricks or mortar around you, it's governed by who holds your hand and who spits in your eye."
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"I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I'm so depressed, or life is terrible."
Tony Curtis
"I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I'm so depressed, or life is terrible."
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"I think that's a result of just a general increase in speed of the vibration of life itself."
Neale Donald Walsch
"I think that's a result of just a general increase in speed of the vibration of life itself."
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