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"I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives."
Paul Simon
"I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives."
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"I've spent my whole life with people underestimating me."
Donna Shalala
"I've spent my whole life with people underestimating me."
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"Some people will try to condemn you to the prison of their bullshit. They tell you they want a soulmate, but they're actually creating a cellmate."
Steve Maraboli
"Some people will try to condemn you to the prison of their bullshit. They tell you they want a soulmate, but they're actually creating a cellmate."
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"Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me."
Billie Joe Armstrong
"Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me."
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"You've got to be the best person you can be in your life."
Jeff Gordon
"You've got to be the best person you can be in your life."
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"Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?"
Aulus Persius Flaccus
"Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?"
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"People should always have something which they prefer to life."
Johann G. Seume
"People should always have something which they prefer to life."
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"Death comes in endless forms. Of the body. Of the soul. Of the heart. - Catriona Mercant, philosopher and warrior. (circa 1419)"
Nalini Singh
"Death comes in endless forms. Of the body. Of the soul. Of the heart. - Catriona Mercant, philosopher and warrior. (circa 1419)"
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"I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life."
Imogen Cunningham
"I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life."
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"We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life's lived before it gets to the parlor door."
Djuna Barnes
"We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life's lived before it gets to the parlor door."
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"I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975. I remember the precise moment, crouching behind a crumbling mud wall, peeking into the alley near the frozen creek. That was a long time ago, but it's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out. Looking back now, I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years."
Khaled Hosseini
"I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975. I remember the precise moment, crouching behind a crumbling mud wall, peeking into the alley near the frozen creek. That was a long time ago, but it's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out. Looking back now, I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years."
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"The same characters that keep reappearing, bigger than life, find their own integrity in doing what they do the way they do it, even if it causes their own deaths."
Robert Aldrich
"The same characters that keep reappearing, bigger than life, find their own integrity in doing what they do the way they do it, even if it causes their own deaths."
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"The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate."
Oprah Winfrey
"The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate."
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"It's very easy to be cynical about the hall of fame. But on the other hand, it's really a beautiful thing for someone like me. I dedicated my entire life to this music."
Tom Petty
"It's very easy to be cynical about the hall of fame. But on the other hand, it's really a beautiful thing for someone like me. I dedicated my entire life to this music."
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"Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things."
Lawrence Clark Powell
"Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things."
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"While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?"
Julia Ward Howe
"While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?"
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"I try to maintain the perspective that life is meant to be laughed at."
Nicholas Brendon
"I try to maintain the perspective that life is meant to be laughed at."
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"If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life."
Abraham Maslow
"If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life."
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"I was just tired of losing... Life was passing me by."
Serena Williams
"I was just tired of losing... Life was passing me by."
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"A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning."
Lillian Gish
"A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning."
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"Life has been good to me. It's not like I missed an awful lot. I had a pretty good lick here. Every moment gets a little more important."
Michael Landon
"Life has been good to me. It's not like I missed an awful lot. I had a pretty good lick here. Every moment gets a little more important."
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"It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us."
James Russell Lowell
"It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us."
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"We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end."
Blaise Pascal
"We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end."
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"For the life of me, I don't understand what honest motive there is in putting this in front of this body to philosophically debate marriage on a constitutional amendment that is not going to happen, and which is enormously divisive in all of our communities."
Dianne Feinstein
"For the life of me, I don't understand what honest motive there is in putting this in front of this body to philosophically debate marriage on a constitutional amendment that is not going to happen, and which is enormously divisive in all of our communities."
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"Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them."
Peter Ustinov
"Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them."
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"If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical laws, then these essential laws will be of most fertile significance in investigating facts of the conscious life of human and brute animals."
Edmund Husserl
"If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical laws, then these essential laws will be of most fertile significance in investigating facts of the conscious life of human and brute animals."
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"Advertising is the life of trade."
Calvin Coolidge
"Advertising is the life of trade."
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"Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable and impersonal time schedule."
Georg Simmel
"Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable and impersonal time schedule."
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"The response to 'The Greatest Generation' and the books that followed has been one of the most satisfying experiences of my life."
Tom Brokaw
"The response to 'The Greatest Generation' and the books that followed has been one of the most satisfying experiences of my life."
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"You see people who have been very heavy in their life who have taken that body, trimmed it down, firmed it up through discipline, exercise and being able to say no. Eating properly, that all comes into it."
Mike Ditka
"You see people who have been very heavy in their life who have taken that body, trimmed it down, firmed it up through discipline, exercise and being able to say no. Eating properly, that all comes into it."
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"Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life."
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"What matters here are the works - finally without them his life would be uninteresting. What matters, that is, are the astonishing things that he left behind. If we can get the life in relation to the works, then it can take off."
Stephen Greenblatt
"What matters here are the works - finally without them his life would be uninteresting. What matters, that is, are the astonishing things that he left behind. If we can get the life in relation to the works, then it can take off."
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"The greatest pleasure of life is love."
Euripides
"The greatest pleasure of life is love."
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"What they're not ready for is guys like you and I and Nails and all the other gnarly gnarlingtons in my life, that we are high priests, Vatican assassin warlocks. Boom. Print that, people. See where that goes."
Charlie Sheen
"What they're not ready for is guys like you and I and Nails and all the other gnarly gnarlingtons in my life, that we are high priests, Vatican assassin warlocks. Boom. Print that, people. See where that goes."
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"I would say to young physicians that the more you intentionally improve the lives of the people in the community you serve the better your life will be and the greater your value will be to the community."
Samuel Wilson
"I would say to young physicians that the more you intentionally improve the lives of the people in the community you serve the better your life will be and the greater your value will be to the community."
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"I just have a lot of respect for Terry and his family. He played without a mask, and his life was tragically ended. And it just means a lot to me to be up there with him and the other greats that have played that long."
Ed Belfour
"I just have a lot of respect for Terry and his family. He played without a mask, and his life was tragically ended. And it just means a lot to me to be up there with him and the other greats that have played that long."
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"If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life."
Abraham Maslow
"If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life."
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"I always assumed it owed more to the fact that he didn't like me."
Rick Yancey
"I always assumed it owed more to the fact that he didn't like me."
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"I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains."
William Shakespeare
"I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains."
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"In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?"
Jamie Foxx
"In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?"
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"For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh."
Georges Rouault
"For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh."
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"They're different kinds of challenges depending upon what phase of life I'm in."
Alanis Morissette
"They're different kinds of challenges depending upon what phase of life I'm in."
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"I wanted to look at them because I feel, internally, that I am an ordinary person who has had an extraordinary life."
Sidney Poitier
"I wanted to look at them because I feel, internally, that I am an ordinary person who has had an extraordinary life."
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"I'm not about to talk about what's romantic in my life - I figure if you talk about it once - then that's an open invitation for everyone to dig into your personal life even further."
James Van Der Beek
"I'm not about to talk about what's romantic in my life - I figure if you talk about it once - then that's an open invitation for everyone to dig into your personal life even further."
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"I am the most well-adjusted human being I know. I started out this investigation as a very happy man with a great career. I've got the life people dream about: I am rich, I am famous, I've got a fabulous marriage to an absolutely, spell-bindingly brilliant woman."
James Ellroy
"I am the most well-adjusted human being I know. I started out this investigation as a very happy man with a great career. I've got the life people dream about: I am rich, I am famous, I've got a fabulous marriage to an absolutely, spell-bindingly brilliant woman."
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"Those three chords were part of my life - G, F, Bb - yeh, it is, it is, and I can't help noticing it. But there have been other things nearly as close to it which people haven't noticed, other things we have done."
Ray Davies
"Those three chords were part of my life - G, F, Bb - yeh, it is, it is, and I can't help noticing it. But there have been other things nearly as close to it which people haven't noticed, other things we have done."
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"And now in my tenderness of remembering it all again, I think I am still there with him too. I am there with all the others, most of them gone but some who are still here, who gave me love and called forth love from me. When I number them over, I am surprised how many there are. And so I have to say that another of the golden threads is gratitude.I was grateful because I knew, even in my fear and grief, that my life had been filled with gifts."
Wendell Berry
"And now in my tenderness of remembering it all again, I think I am still there with him too. I am there with all the others, most of them gone but some who are still here, who gave me love and called forth love from me. When I number them over, I am surprised how many there are. And so I have to say that another of the golden threads is gratitude.I was grateful because I knew, even in my fear and grief, that my life had been filled with gifts."
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"Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life."
Alan Dundes
"Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life."
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"Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life."
Jean Paul
"Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life."
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"In the initial season of a show, you're figuring out your character and their life and their background and you're putting together all the chapters of the book."
Sophia Bush
"In the initial season of a show, you're figuring out your character and their life and their background and you're putting together all the chapters of the book."
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