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"I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play me in my life story."
Patti Smith
"I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play me in my life story."
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"It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost."
Richard Bach
"It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost."
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"I think I can lead a pretty anonymous life, yeah."
Hugh Dancy
"I think I can lead a pretty anonymous life, yeah."
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"I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life."
Iris Chang
"I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life."
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"There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life; some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures."
Bryant McGill
"There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life; some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures."
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"It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner."
Vernon A. Walters
"It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner."
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"To me rites of passage through life, that's a wonderful, beautiful thing."
Lance Henriksen
"To me rites of passage through life, that's a wonderful, beautiful thing."
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"I have a lot of friends who get up most mornings and go to jobs they absolutely hate. I don't think that's what life is about and I'm so fortunate that I actually love what I do."
Jerry Herman
"I have a lot of friends who get up most mornings and go to jobs they absolutely hate. I don't think that's what life is about and I'm so fortunate that I actually love what I do."
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"Guard your heart in your spirit."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"Guard your heart in your spirit."
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"The Gong Show provided me with five years of the happiest times of my life, but that's that. And to be known as the guy who gave the world The Gong Show - listen, my Uncle George isn't known as anything. So I guess it isn't so bad in that context."
Chuck Barris
"The Gong Show provided me with five years of the happiest times of my life, but that's that. And to be known as the guy who gave the world The Gong Show - listen, my Uncle George isn't known as anything. So I guess it isn't so bad in that context."
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"Marriage, at this point in my life? I'm not interested in it. Yet. Maybe later when I'm 35 or 40."
Amanda Seyfried
"Marriage, at this point in my life? I'm not interested in it. Yet. Maybe later when I'm 35 or 40."
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"If it wasn't for pick-pockets I'd have no sex life at all."
Rodney Dangerfield
"If it wasn't for pick-pockets I'd have no sex life at all."
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"Life is such a glorious trauma, is it not?"
J.R. Ward
"Life is such a glorious trauma, is it not?"
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"Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be."
Grandma Moses
"Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be."
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"I tend to be a subscriber to the idea that you have everything you need by the time you're 12 years old to do interesting writing for most of the rest of your life - certainly by the time you're 18."
Bruce Springsteen
"I tend to be a subscriber to the idea that you have everything you need by the time you're 12 years old to do interesting writing for most of the rest of your life - certainly by the time you're 18."
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"I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name."
Emily Dickinson
"I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name."
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"The voice I have now, I got the first time I sang in a movement meeting, after I got out of jail... and I'd never heard it before in my life."
Bernice Johnson Reagon
"The voice I have now, I got the first time I sang in a movement meeting, after I got out of jail... and I'd never heard it before in my life."
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"I have had a lot of adversaries in my political life, but no enemies that I can remember."
Gerald R. Ford
"I have had a lot of adversaries in my political life, but no enemies that I can remember."
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"I would be willing, yes glad, to see a battle every day during my life."
George Armstrong Custer
"I would be willing, yes glad, to see a battle every day during my life."
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"The goal is to live a full, productive life even with all that ambiguity. No matter what hap- pens, whether the cancer never flares up again or whether you die, the important thing is that the days that you have had you will have lived."
Gilda Radner
"The goal is to live a full, productive life even with all that ambiguity. No matter what hap- pens, whether the cancer never flares up again or whether you die, the important thing is that the days that you have had you will have lived."
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"But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain."
Theodor Adorno
"But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain."
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"Take life slowly and deliberately, making sure to acknowledge the people who have helped you succeed along the way."
Ted Levine
"Take life slowly and deliberately, making sure to acknowledge the people who have helped you succeed along the way."
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"I've watched those shows my whole life - being on one is like a dream. It's hard to balance that dream with the fact that this is the Edie I've known my whole life."
Edie Falco
"I've watched those shows my whole life - being on one is like a dream. It's hard to balance that dream with the fact that this is the Edie I've known my whole life."
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"Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life."
Walter Kaufmann
"Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life."
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"The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process."
Mary McCarthy
"The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process."
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"There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it."
George Herbert
"There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it."
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"My parents gave me stability and a belief in myself and in all the possibilities life has to offer. I was told the only limitations I would ever face were those I placed upon myself."
Dionne Warwick
"My parents gave me stability and a belief in myself and in all the possibilities life has to offer. I was told the only limitations I would ever face were those I placed upon myself."
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"It's important to hold something back, though, because quite frankly my personal life is pretty dull and I don't want to bore people with it."
Matt Lucas
"It's important to hold something back, though, because quite frankly my personal life is pretty dull and I don't want to bore people with it."
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"There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important."
Franklin P. Adams
"There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important."
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"The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven."
Cyril Connolly
"The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven."
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"It's great when you find somebody you're compatible with, but I'm really into separate bedrooms. You live your life and I live mine."
Claudia Christian
"It's great when you find somebody you're compatible with, but I'm really into separate bedrooms. You live your life and I live mine."
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"So much of my life is spent just focused on driving race cars."
Jeff Gordon
"So much of my life is spent just focused on driving race cars."
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"The hardest job an actor can do is all this pretend, all this screaming and being scared for your life."
Kirsten Dunst
"The hardest job an actor can do is all this pretend, all this screaming and being scared for your life."
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"No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts."
Booker T. Washington
"No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts."
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"Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it."
Tom Lehrer
"Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it."
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"But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!"
Anna Neagle
"But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!"
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"It's the same as any role and I find that you can't lump characters together; because they all have different life experiences, different reasons for being the way they are."
Brenda Blethyn
"It's the same as any role and I find that you can't lump characters together; because they all have different life experiences, different reasons for being the way they are."
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"Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise."
Adolf Hitler
"Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise."
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"If the willingness is there, you can graciously fulfill your dream."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"If the willingness is there, you can graciously fulfill your dream."
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"I loved music, but I found myself at the point where I wanted to die. I didn't care about life."
Brian Welch
"I loved music, but I found myself at the point where I wanted to die. I didn't care about life."
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"What I used to play was rhythm guitar before I saw Jack Bruce. I said, That's what I want to do in life. He was definitely the main influence."
Geezer Butler
"What I used to play was rhythm guitar before I saw Jack Bruce. I said, That's what I want to do in life. He was definitely the main influence."
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"The purpose of my life is being a father to my kids and being a husband to my wife."
Terrence Howard
"The purpose of my life is being a father to my kids and being a husband to my wife."
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"The quality of my life has changed dramatically - not the events - but the way I handle them and my priorities and my sense of drama."
Ali MacGraw
"The quality of my life has changed dramatically - not the events - but the way I handle them and my priorities and my sense of drama."
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"At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth."
Leon Askin
"At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth."
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"Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do - every 24 frames of a second."
Darren Aronofsky
"Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do - every 24 frames of a second."
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"How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue."
Natalie Clifford Barney
"How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue."
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"Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic."
Hosea Ballou
"Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic."
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"Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits."
Charles J. Givens
"Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits."
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"I was born in Northern Ireland in 1951. I lived most of my life there until 1986 or 1987."
Paul Muldoon
"I was born in Northern Ireland in 1951. I lived most of my life there until 1986 or 1987."
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"There is good in everything; it's just how you choose to look at it. Everything that's worth it has a price. For me to be a model - I had to leave my family. Do you think I liked that? No! There are sacrifices. Life is meant to be a challenge, because challenges are what make you grow."
Gisele Bundchen
"There is good in everything; it's just how you choose to look at it. Everything that's worth it has a price. For me to be a model - I had to leave my family. Do you think I liked that? No! There are sacrifices. Life is meant to be a challenge, because challenges are what make you grow."
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