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"My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine."
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"Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles."
Henry Drummond
"Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles."
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"If I've learned one thing in life, it's: Stand for something or you'll fall for anything."
Bonnie Hunt
"If I've learned one thing in life, it's: Stand for something or you'll fall for anything."
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"Sensitive people feel so deeply they often have to retreat from the world, in order to dig beneath the layers of pain to find their faith and courage."
Shannon L. Alder
"Sensitive people feel so deeply they often have to retreat from the world, in order to dig beneath the layers of pain to find their faith and courage."
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"An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life."
Ouida
"An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life."
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"My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for."
Jane Rule
"My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for."
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"When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory."
A. C. Benson
"When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory."
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"She's 32, and she has three children. She loves to be pregnant but she doesn't want anymore children in her life. So she decided to help another couple. And she's just been amazing."
Cheryl Tiegs
"She's 32, and she has three children. She loves to be pregnant but she doesn't want anymore children in her life. So she decided to help another couple. And she's just been amazing."
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"A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed for the good of humanity - or even patented for himself - must feel the pinch of poverty very acutely."
James Payn
"A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed for the good of humanity - or even patented for himself - must feel the pinch of poverty very acutely."
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"I always believed in God and Christ, but I was in rebellion - trying to make my relationship with God fit into my life instead of making my life fit in with him. I was stubborn."
Scott Stapp
"I always believed in God and Christ, but I was in rebellion - trying to make my relationship with God fit into my life instead of making my life fit in with him. I was stubborn."
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"On man when he came into life the Father conferred the seeds of all kinds and the germs of every way of life."
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
"On man when he came into life the Father conferred the seeds of all kinds and the germs of every way of life."
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"The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life."
Thomas Hobbes
"The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life."
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"We always may be what we might have been."
Adelaide Anne Procter
"We always may be what we might have been."
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"Life is too full of distractions nowadays. When I was a kid we had a little Emerson radio and that was it. We were more dedicated. We didn't have a choice."
Stan Getz
"Life is too full of distractions nowadays. When I was a kid we had a little Emerson radio and that was it. We were more dedicated. We didn't have a choice."
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"Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life."
Robin Hayes
"Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life."
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"Yes, but I think if you look at it with a sort of gay sensibility and want everything to be positive about gay life, it could be interpreted as antigay."
John Schlesinger
"Yes, but I think if you look at it with a sort of gay sensibility and want everything to be positive about gay life, it could be interpreted as antigay."
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"Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows."
Harriet Ann Jacobs
"Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows."
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"Crime is one of the leads of the show. If there's ever anything that deals with a character's personal life, you don't have to worry about it getting too crazy. People don't have to worry about character arcs. Each episode is a self-contained unit."
Christopher Meloni
"Crime is one of the leads of the show. If there's ever anything that deals with a character's personal life, you don't have to worry about it getting too crazy. People don't have to worry about character arcs. Each episode is a self-contained unit."
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"I've spent my life hearing people trying to apologize for music."
Mike Figgis
"I've spent my life hearing people trying to apologize for music."
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"Life is a series of commas, not periods."
Matthew McConaughey
"Life is a series of commas, not periods."
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"I've been very physical my whole life. I went out hiking and camping for days in the Australian forest, and when I trained at drama school for three years, we did a whole lot on stage-fighting techniques. And I was a dancer from 5 to 18, so I have a memory for choreography."
Yvonne Strahovski
"I've been very physical my whole life. I went out hiking and camping for days in the Australian forest, and when I trained at drama school for three years, we did a whole lot on stage-fighting techniques. And I was a dancer from 5 to 18, so I have a memory for choreography."
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"Sarah is very strong. She's really intelligent and she's very physically capable. I like to put that into my own life as well."
Yvonne Strahovski
"Sarah is very strong. She's really intelligent and she's very physically capable. I like to put that into my own life as well."
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"There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it."
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
"There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it."
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"I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan."
Jacques Derrida
"I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan."
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"I made up my mind several years ago that I had worked very hard to get to where I am in life and that I was only going to do things that are fun and exciting."
Andy Williams
"I made up my mind several years ago that I had worked very hard to get to where I am in life and that I was only going to do things that are fun and exciting."
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"Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life."
Camille Paglia
"Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life."
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"Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?"
Aldous Huxley
"Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?"
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"I met an American woman and got married so I had to get a job."
Walter Wager
"I met an American woman and got married so I had to get a job."
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"The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next."
Ursula K. Le Guin
"The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next."
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"The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up."
John C. Maxwell
"The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up."
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"I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again."
Mary A. Ward
"I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again."
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"But naturalists are now beginning to look beyond this, and to see that there must be some other principle regulating the infinitely varied forms of animal life."
Alfred Russel Wallace
"But naturalists are now beginning to look beyond this, and to see that there must be some other principle regulating the infinitely varied forms of animal life."
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"There is no private domain of a person's life that is not political, and there is no political issue that is not ultimately personal."
Charlotte Bunch
"There is no private domain of a person's life that is not political, and there is no political issue that is not ultimately personal."
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"Being a former dancer, classical dancer, it informed me as a human being just in terms of the grace I guess. Ballet is a very graceful form of art. You also become very aware of your body and your mind and your body is working in conjunction. That kind of helps you in acting as well. It's not only using your mind, it's like making your mind communicate this character into your body so that you can bring it to life and physicalize it."
Zoe Saldana
"Being a former dancer, classical dancer, it informed me as a human being just in terms of the grace I guess. Ballet is a very graceful form of art. You also become very aware of your body and your mind and your body is working in conjunction. That kind of helps you in acting as well. It's not only using your mind, it's like making your mind communicate this character into your body so that you can bring it to life and physicalize it."
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"There's people that figure if they hang out with you, all of a sudden they're going to be successes. I've had two or three stalkers in my life."
Dustin Diamond
"There's people that figure if they hang out with you, all of a sudden they're going to be successes. I've had two or three stalkers in my life."
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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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"Some folks think I painted Lincoln from life, but I haven't been around that long. Not quite."
Norman Rockwell
"Some folks think I painted Lincoln from life, but I haven't been around that long. Not quite."
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"As far as my journal, I want to share tour life with my fans."
Natalie Gulbis
"As far as my journal, I want to share tour life with my fans."
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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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"This movie will actually increase the sex life of parents everywhere because they can put this on, with the 45 minutes of extras and they've got almost two hours to do whatever they've got to do while the kids watch the movie."
Dana Carvey
"This movie will actually increase the sex life of parents everywhere because they can put this on, with the 45 minutes of extras and they've got almost two hours to do whatever they've got to do while the kids watch the movie."
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"Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life."
John Betjeman
"Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life."
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"Ah, I hope to live to 87 and drink from the the goblet of life to the dregs."
Theo Van Gogh
"Ah, I hope to live to 87 and drink from the the goblet of life to the dregs."
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"You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?"
W. Clement Stone
"You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?"
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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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"Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it."
Diane Sawyer
"Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it."
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"Focus on making choices to lead your life that aligns with your core values in the most purposeful way possible."
Roy T. Bennett
"Focus on making choices to lead your life that aligns with your core values in the most purposeful way possible."
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"The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance."
Isaac Bashevis Singer
"The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance."
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"A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day."
Maggie Gyllenhaal
"A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day."
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