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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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"One of the things that I am happy about in my life as an artist is that I am not considered a Hispanic artist."
Andres Serrano
"One of the things that I am happy about in my life as an artist is that I am not considered a Hispanic artist."
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"It's a Fox thing, the bad-boy image. They're trying to type me out. There are worse things in life, you know. I'm just really excited about the opportunity."
Ben McKenzie
"It's a Fox thing, the bad-boy image. They're trying to type me out. There are worse things in life, you know. I'm just really excited about the opportunity."
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"Army life was rough. Would you believe it, they actually wanted me to pitch three times a week."
Whitey Ford
"Army life was rough. Would you believe it, they actually wanted me to pitch three times a week."
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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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"I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on."
Robert Browning
"I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on."
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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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"There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him."
Antonin Artaud
"There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him."
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"Probably the '86 nationals. That was my first real national title and first real statement I ever made in figure skating, and my life changed after I returned."
Debi Thomas
"Probably the '86 nationals. That was my first real national title and first real statement I ever made in figure skating, and my life changed after I returned."
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"Life is a struggle, but not a warfare."
John Burroughs
"Life is a struggle, but not a warfare."
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"I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed."
Michael Jordan
"I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed."
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"If I were to ask you for example right now to go back with me and define those moments in your life that shaped you as a person and you began to reexamine them, something would happen."
James Lipton
"If I were to ask you for example right now to go back with me and define those moments in your life that shaped you as a person and you began to reexamine them, something would happen."
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"It is that, but really, it's about how we don't recognise the little things in life, or appreciate the little things in life like belonging. A sense of belonging is a big thing today."
James Caan
"It is that, but really, it's about how we don't recognise the little things in life, or appreciate the little things in life like belonging. A sense of belonging is a big thing today."
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"In order to represent life on the stage, we must rub elbows with life, live ourselves."
Marie Dressler
"In order to represent life on the stage, we must rub elbows with life, live ourselves."
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"Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor."
Ogden Nash
"Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor."
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"No matter who you are or what you plan to do in life, learn to type!"
Liz Smith
"No matter who you are or what you plan to do in life, learn to type!"
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"I spend as much time with my kids as any mom who stays home. I only work during the hours they're at school, but there is always the sense of trying to catch up with all their stuff and not only organize my work life but also their school lives."
Patricia Heaton
"I spend as much time with my kids as any mom who stays home. I only work during the hours they're at school, but there is always the sense of trying to catch up with all their stuff and not only organize my work life but also their school lives."
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"Good and bad - this is the story of my life."
Martha Reeves
"Good and bad - this is the story of my life."
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"In life, people sometimes make rotten deals."
Jeanne Calment
"In life, people sometimes make rotten deals."
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"If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon."
Robert Lowell
"If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon."
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"I can only say that whatever my life and work have been, I'm not envious of anyone-and this is my biggest satisfaction."
Roman Polanski
"I can only say that whatever my life and work have been, I'm not envious of anyone-and this is my biggest satisfaction."
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"I didn't come east of the Mississippi for the first time in my life until I was 26 years of age, but I knew. I read magazines, I listened to radio, I watched television. I knew there was something out there, and I wanted a part of it."
Sam Donaldson
"I didn't come east of the Mississippi for the first time in my life until I was 26 years of age, but I knew. I read magazines, I listened to radio, I watched television. I knew there was something out there, and I wanted a part of it."
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"Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world which is upsidedown: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me; only the haters seem alive."
Walker Percy
"Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world which is upsidedown: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me; only the haters seem alive."
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"If life were fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead."
Johnny Carson
"If life were fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead."
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"This gets back to the fundamental lesson of political survival that Bill Clinton taught me, which is if you make it about the American people's lives instead of your life, you're going to be okay."
Paul Begala
"This gets back to the fundamental lesson of political survival that Bill Clinton taught me, which is if you make it about the American people's lives instead of your life, you're going to be okay."
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"Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life."
Walter Annenberg
"Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life."
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"He's just like my father that way-my father just adored my mother and let her do whatever she wanted. John's like that. He's a very rare man, a very good man, and I've had a good life with him. I'm proud to be walking in the wake of Johnny's fame."
June Carter Cash
"He's just like my father that way-my father just adored my mother and let her do whatever she wanted. John's like that. He's a very rare man, a very good man, and I've had a good life with him. I'm proud to be walking in the wake of Johnny's fame."
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"I spent my whole life figuring out how to get out of work. I would say I was intelligent, but intelligent in a very surreptitious, invisible way."
Bruce Davison
"I spent my whole life figuring out how to get out of work. I would say I was intelligent, but intelligent in a very surreptitious, invisible way."
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"My life really began when I married my husband."
Nancy Reagan
"My life really began when I married my husband."
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"For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is now a constituent player in the global transformation of human culture."
William Irwin Thompson
"For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is now a constituent player in the global transformation of human culture."
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"Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter."
Charles Lindbergh
"Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter."
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"Nobody in real life ever takes me seriously."
Jane Haddam
"Nobody in real life ever takes me seriously."
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"Surrender to life itself and you'll just be rewarded with so many things. And I've been rewarded so many times, in so many mysterious ways. So I have no reason to be disappointed with anything."
Jason Mraz
"Surrender to life itself and you'll just be rewarded with so many things. And I've been rewarded so many times, in so many mysterious ways. So I have no reason to be disappointed with anything."
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"Well I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in prison, it became a sort of a new challenge to write another novel, to write a new novel."
Jeffrey Archer
"Well I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in prison, it became a sort of a new challenge to write another novel, to write a new novel."
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"UNICEF has made the most rewarding thing that I have ever done in my life."
Nana Mouskouri
"UNICEF has made the most rewarding thing that I have ever done in my life."
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"There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar and I suddenly realised that it wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life."
Andy Summers
"There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar and I suddenly realised that it wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life."
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"There are two births: the one when light, First strikes the new awakened sense; The other when two souls unite, And we must count our life from thence, When you loved me and I loved you, Then both of us were born anew."
William Cartwright
"There are two births: the one when light, First strikes the new awakened sense; The other when two souls unite, And we must count our life from thence, When you loved me and I loved you, Then both of us were born anew."
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"No life is so hard that you cannot make it easier by the way you take it."
Ellen Glasgow
"No life is so hard that you cannot make it easier by the way you take it."
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"Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts."
Nikki Giovanni
"Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts."
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"Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life."
David Hockney
"Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life."
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"A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all."
Clive James
"A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all."
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"Because our choices are largely based on survival. But if life is eternal, life is not a question."
Neale Donald Walsch
"Because our choices are largely based on survival. But if life is eternal, life is not a question."
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"The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness."
John Cheever
"The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness."
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"Just kidding, I've been very athletic all my life."
Kiana Tom
"Just kidding, I've been very athletic all my life."
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"The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters."
Mary Astell
"The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters."
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"It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art."
Margaret Oliphant
"It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art."
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"I've lived next door to people all my life. I don't know how cute they think I am."
Sandra Bullock
"I've lived next door to people all my life. I don't know how cute they think I am."
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"Life is very short... but I would like to live four times and if I could, I would set out to do no other things than I am seeking now to do."
William Merritt Chase
"Life is very short... but I would like to live four times and if I could, I would set out to do no other things than I am seeking now to do."
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"It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy."
Thomas Huxley
"It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy."
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"You will live your life secure in that you are no longer manipulated by what other people want you to do and be, but are directed by your own inner desires."
H. Stanley Judd
"You will live your life secure in that you are no longer manipulated by what other people want you to do and be, but are directed by your own inner desires."
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