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Life Quotes
"There are some souls, bright and precious, which, like gold and silver, may be subdued by the fiery trial, and yield to new moulds; but there are others, pure and solid as the diamond, which may be shivered to pieces, yet in every fragment retain their indelible characteristics."
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"We've observed that people who stall in their personal growth work often have counterproductive soft addictions that stand in their way of growth and having the life they say they want. It can be a simple thing, such as watching TV instead of finishing a project."
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"It was the highlight of my life being in the Mae West show, because I saw and did things I never had before."
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"Hannah, do you think that your mum and dad and Tate's mum and dad and my mum and dad and Webb and Tate are all together someplace?' she asks earnestly. I look at Hannah, waiting for the answer. And then she smiles. Webb once said that a Narnie smile was a revelation and, at this moment, I need a revelation. And I get one. 'I wonder,' Hannah says."
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"I like this life. I like it when it's hard, and I like it better when it's not, but I know you don't get the sweet part without the bitter."
Life,
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"I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go."
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"There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life... I think I must have been crying for some attention."
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"My goal is to make as many films as possible about different aspects of American life."
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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."
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"Shukhov ate his supper without bread--a double portion and bread on top of it would be too rich. So he'd save the bread. You get no thanks from your belly--it always forgets what you've just done for it and comes begging again the next day."
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"There are hurdles to overcome in sport and in life. Sport is a very valuable learning ground for how to live your life in the best possible way."
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"Whenever someone 'pretends' as perfect, never made a mistake, error, sin in his life, I know that he has never been in the field..."
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"Life might take you down different roads. But each of you gets to decide which one to take."
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"It's not going to fill in the potholes. It's not going to put a roof over people's heads. What it does is it helps to address really fundamental questions of who we are, where we came from, by which I mean we can learn how life came about."
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"Never put all the good people in one plane, ship, train ....."
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"Our torments also may in length of timeBecome our Elements."
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"Staring down the reality of war, far from home, asleep among strangers, that familiarity, those memories, those ties kept us going; gave us a reason to persevere; toughened us up."
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"And I did wonder - because it's now three years ago since I left prison - whether there would come a time when I would forget it, or it would be in the past as anything else might be - no, it's there every day of my life."
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"I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't."
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"I'm supposed to convince you, for two hours, that I'm somebody else. Now if you know everything about my life, if you think you've got me figured out and you think you know all my dark secrets, how am I ever going to convince you that I'm somebody else?"
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"There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life."
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"A large part of my life revolves around my dad. Sometimes, I even feel a strong sense of connection, something very tangible when I learn something new in the martial arts."
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"I majored in Chinese. I was never really good at Chinese but I really, really benefited from having been exposed to Asian philosophy early in my life."
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