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"What's the classical moment that every actor or actress deals with? A tragic thing. They get that blank, faraway look in their eyes. But in life, it's not that way."
Skeet Ulrich
"What's the classical moment that every actor or actress deals with? A tragic thing. They get that blank, faraway look in their eyes. But in life, it's not that way."
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"Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy."
Hamlin Garland
"Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy."
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"Those seven years in the cloister were the key to my life."
Abbe Pierre
"Those seven years in the cloister were the key to my life."
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"I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives."
Robert Caro
"I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives."
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"The wheel of life has many spokes yet so few people ever leave the hub."
Stanley Victor Paskavich
"The wheel of life has many spokes yet so few people ever leave the hub."
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"If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself."
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
"If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself."
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"The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before."
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"But life is tough and if you're creative, it's tougher."
Bobby Short
"But life is tough and if you're creative, it's tougher."
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"My six handbooks to Jewish life and lifecycle events mostly followed the trajectory of my adult Jewish life."
Anita Diament
"My six handbooks to Jewish life and lifecycle events mostly followed the trajectory of my adult Jewish life."
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"Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run and for most men this comes chiefly through their work."
Bertrand Russell
"Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run and for most men this comes chiefly through their work."
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"I've made a life and career as a professional musician."
Melissa Auf der Maur
"I've made a life and career as a professional musician."
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"My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness."
Woodrow Wilson
"My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness."
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"She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit."
Sri Aurobindo
"She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit."
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"Gratitude builds a bridge to abundance."
Roy T. Bennett
"Gratitude builds a bridge to abundance."
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"No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience."
Jonathan Swift
"No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience."
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"I would have given my own life if I could have undone the killing of white men by my people."
Chief Joseph
"I would have given my own life if I could have undone the killing of white men by my people."
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"Music is essentially useless, as is life."
George Santayana
"Music is essentially useless, as is life."
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"There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it."
Walter Savage Landor
"There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it."
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"Seeking refuge from a world in which huge and mysterious forces were let loose to destruction."
Diana Gabaldon
"Seeking refuge from a world in which huge and mysterious forces were let loose to destruction."
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"Abraham Lincoln because he was a man filled with great compassion who believed that all men are created free and equal, and was not afraid to stand on that platform. The way Lincoln lived his life has served me well in mine."
Sidney Sheldon
"Abraham Lincoln because he was a man filled with great compassion who believed that all men are created free and equal, and was not afraid to stand on that platform. The way Lincoln lived his life has served me well in mine."
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"Life is lived in common, but not in community."
Michael Harrington
"Life is lived in common, but not in community."
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"Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it."
Alice Walker
"Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it."
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"Don't go on American Idol, I think you'll spend the rest of your life living it down and I think it's getting kinda scary, isn't it?"
Joe Cocker
"Don't go on American Idol, I think you'll spend the rest of your life living it down and I think it's getting kinda scary, isn't it?"
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"To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator."
Maria Montessori
"To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator."
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"No man is a failure who is enjoying life."
William Feather
"No man is a failure who is enjoying life."
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"Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning."
Charles de Lint
"Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning."
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"And I'm not very coordinated, either. Only on ice skates, not in real life."
Julie Benz
"And I'm not very coordinated, either. Only on ice skates, not in real life."
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"Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another."
Ernest Hemingway
"Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another."
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"Above our life we love a steadfast friend."
Christopher Marlowe
"Above our life we love a steadfast friend."
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"Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui."
Emile M. Cioran
"Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui."
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"Every woman needs one man in her life who is strong and responsible. Given this security, she can proceed to do what she really wants to do-fall in love with men who are weak and irresponsible."
Richard J. Needham
"Every woman needs one man in her life who is strong and responsible. Given this security, she can proceed to do what she really wants to do-fall in love with men who are weak and irresponsible."
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"A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later, when you see the guy in an elevator and he is fat and smoking a cigar and saying long-time-no-see."
Phyllis Battelle
"A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later, when you see the guy in an elevator and he is fat and smoking a cigar and saying long-time-no-see."
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"Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows."
Pope Paul VI
"Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows."
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"Honestly, people have said everything under the sun. I just want to do my work, raise my kids, and hopefully find somebody who I can share my life with again."
Nicole Kidman
"Honestly, people have said everything under the sun. I just want to do my work, raise my kids, and hopefully find somebody who I can share my life with again."
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"Just remember, please, most of that stuff is in the past. It isn't the story I want to tell. At all.You needed to know it, but for the rest of this, I'm choosing my own story.Because if you can't do that, you might as well just give up."
Patrick Ness
"Just remember, please, most of that stuff is in the past. It isn't the story I want to tell. At all.You needed to know it, but for the rest of this, I'm choosing my own story.Because if you can't do that, you might as well just give up."
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"I've got to restructure all my personal life now in order to accommodate public service, which is fine."
Max Burns
"I've got to restructure all my personal life now in order to accommodate public service, which is fine."
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"If you have the opportunity to do amazing things in your life, I strongly encourage you to invite someone to join you."
Simon Sinek
"If you have the opportunity to do amazing things in your life, I strongly encourage you to invite someone to join you."
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"Strangest problems of life seem clearing, but clouds sweep between--Is my journey's end coming?"
Herman Melville
"Strangest problems of life seem clearing, but clouds sweep between--Is my journey's end coming?"
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"As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts so shall thy life be."
Emmet Fox
"As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts so shall thy life be."
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"For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives."
Amy Lowell
"For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives."
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"Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree."
Johann Arndt
"Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree."
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"We're not show-business people. We have a life."
Patti LuPone
"We're not show-business people. We have a life."
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"A lot of times when we work overseas we tend to put the experience of someone who lives overseas, a Chinese person or a Korean person or a Bosnian person, within the prism of an American life."
John Pomfret
"A lot of times when we work overseas we tend to put the experience of someone who lives overseas, a Chinese person or a Korean person or a Bosnian person, within the prism of an American life."
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"My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It's the only thing I find interesting."
Paul Simon
"My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It's the only thing I find interesting."
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"On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need."
Hunter S. Thompson
"On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need."
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"This record for the first time - feels like a record that really represents my whole entire life and instead of just a period of my life. And it is really kind of eye opening and it makes me feel really good to hear this record and hear all the years."
Vince Gill
"This record for the first time - feels like a record that really represents my whole entire life and instead of just a period of my life. And it is really kind of eye opening and it makes me feel really good to hear this record and hear all the years."
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"A real decision makes one humble, one knows that it is at the mercy of more things that can be named."
James Baldwin
"A real decision makes one humble, one knows that it is at the mercy of more things that can be named."
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"Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations."
Richard M. DeVos
"Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations."
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"My sport taught me what I could do with my talents, whether in the rink or in the rest of my life."
Peggy Fleming
"My sport taught me what I could do with my talents, whether in the rink or in the rest of my life."
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"Some things cannot be taught, they must be experienced. You never learn the most valuable lessons in life until you go through your own journey."
Roy T. Bennett
"Some things cannot be taught, they must be experienced. You never learn the most valuable lessons in life until you go through your own journey."
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