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"The reason I wanted to be an actor is that I don't want to play me for the rest of my life and make money out of that."
James D'arcy
"The reason I wanted to be an actor is that I don't want to play me for the rest of my life and make money out of that."
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"My entire life has been spent thinking about this game. That's pretty narrow... I don't view myself as a person who's well-versed in very many subjects. I'm not proud of that."
Bill Parcells
"My entire life has been spent thinking about this game. That's pretty narrow... I don't view myself as a person who's well-versed in very many subjects. I'm not proud of that."
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"I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there."
Herb Caen
"I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there."
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"All my life I been doin' what people tell me to do. Now, I'm telling them."
John Lee Hooker
"All my life I been doin' what people tell me to do. Now, I'm telling them."
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"If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age."
Freya Stark
"If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age."
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"But I have had to give up certain things in my life. One is shopping. Two is lunch with the girls. Three is cocktail parties, and four is studying my lines."
Joan Collins
"But I have had to give up certain things in my life. One is shopping. Two is lunch with the girls. Three is cocktail parties, and four is studying my lines."
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"Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes."
Barbara Boxer
"Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes."
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"I can achieve that by personally relating the words that I am saying to something I have known in my life."
Mandy Patinkin
"I can achieve that by personally relating the words that I am saying to something I have known in my life."
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"School is a foretaste of life."
Georg Brandes
"School is a foretaste of life."
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"The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society."
James Anthony Froude
"The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society."
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"I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die."
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
"I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die."
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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 can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics."
Albert Schweitzer
"I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics."
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"These sites have torn down the geographical divide that once prevented long distance social relationships from forming, allowing instant communication and connections to take place and a virtual second life to take hold for its users."
Mike Fitzpatrick
"These sites have torn down the geographical divide that once prevented long distance social relationships from forming, allowing instant communication and connections to take place and a virtual second life to take hold for its users."
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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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"I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people."
George Takei
"I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people."
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"We suddenly saw how people reacted in the event of massive social upheaval, and the way that the little problems in your life don't go away. You don't stop being frightened of spiders just because the world's blown up."
Simon Pegg
"We suddenly saw how people reacted in the event of massive social upheaval, and the way that the little problems in your life don't go away. You don't stop being frightened of spiders just because the world's blown up."
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"The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life."
H. P. Blavatsky
"The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life."
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"Timing in life is everything."
Leonard Maltin
"Timing in life is everything."
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"Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices."
Paul Tournier
"Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices."
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"The thing that sets Mars apart is that it is the one planet that is enough like Earth that you can imagine life possibly once having taken hold there."
Steven Squyres
"The thing that sets Mars apart is that it is the one planet that is enough like Earth that you can imagine life possibly once having taken hold there."
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"I want to lead the Victorian life, surrounded by exquisite clutter."
Freddie Mercury
"I want to lead the Victorian life, surrounded by exquisite clutter."
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"I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it."
Hank Aaron
"I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it."
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"Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury."
Johan Huizinga
"Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury."
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"As you get older you learn some balance and mediation in your life - that's where I am right now. I feel pretty comfortable about things."
Christian Slater
"As you get older you learn some balance and mediation in your life - that's where I am right now. I feel pretty comfortable about things."
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"And I think that the environment is one very strong way to counterbalance the chaotic nature of our life."
Minoru Yamasaki
"And I think that the environment is one very strong way to counterbalance the chaotic nature of our life."
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"Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again."
Sarah Ban Breathnach
"Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again."
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"I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to."
Madeleine Peyroux
"I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to."
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"If you don't have solid beliefs you cannot build a stable life. Beliefs are like the foundation of a building, and they are the foundation to build your life upon."
Alfred A. Montapert
"If you don't have solid beliefs you cannot build a stable life. Beliefs are like the foundation of a building, and they are the foundation to build your life upon."
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"I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness."
Vachel Lindsay
"I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness."
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"Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all."
Irwin Shaw
"Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all."
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"The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life."
Daniel J. Boorstin
"The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life."
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"Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers."
Learned Hand
"Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers."
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"But although life is not energy, any more than it is matter, yet it directs energy and thereby controls arrangements of matter."
Oliver Joseph Lodge
"But although life is not energy, any more than it is matter, yet it directs energy and thereby controls arrangements of matter."
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"My wife bought an extra life insurance policy on me."
Willie Aames
"My wife bought an extra life insurance policy on me."
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"Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still."
Dorothea Lange
"Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still."
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"Life's too short to be working with divas."
Richard O'Brien
"Life's too short to be working with divas."
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"I don't think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films."
Paul Auster
"I don't think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films."
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"Once upon a time we did not focus on a president's private life."
Tom Ford
"Once upon a time we did not focus on a president's private life."
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"I don't need a man in my life."
Enya
"I don't need a man in my life."
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"I put together the influences of my life in as clear a way as I possibly can, in the same way that Beethoven or Schoenberg or Bach put their influences together."
John Zorn
"I put together the influences of my life in as clear a way as I possibly can, in the same way that Beethoven or Schoenberg or Bach put their influences together."
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"I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them."
Boris Pasternak
"I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them."
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"I think space exploration is very important. I think there is very intelligent life on Mars. I believe that Martians are spying on us from the bottom of the ocean."
Annabella Sciorra
"I think space exploration is very important. I think there is very intelligent life on Mars. I believe that Martians are spying on us from the bottom of the ocean."
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"Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you."
Thomas Wolfe
"Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you."
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"Poetry is life distilled."
Gwendolyn Brooks
"Poetry is life distilled."
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"It dawned on me that acting was what I wanted to do with my life. Nothing had ever touched my heart like acting did."
Hugh Jackman
"It dawned on me that acting was what I wanted to do with my life. Nothing had ever touched my heart like acting did."
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"I have a very good life - I'm lucky enough not to be deprived."
Meryl Streep
"I have a very good life - I'm lucky enough not to be deprived."
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"That the variability of an organism to a certain extent is a constant and certain condition of life we admit, otherwise there would be no distinguishable individuals of a species."
Richard Owen
"That the variability of an organism to a certain extent is a constant and certain condition of life we admit, otherwise there would be no distinguishable individuals of a species."
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"Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind."
Giacomo Leopardi
"Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind."
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