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"Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself."

"Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself."

Robert Foster Bennett, American Politician

Life, Control, Being, Choices

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"I have a lot of great memories, but I can't imagine anything more exciting than the life I have now."

"I have a lot of great memories, but I can't imagine anything more exciting than the life I have now."

Rob Lowe, American Actor

Life, Memories, Now

37

"One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder."

"One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder."

Ella Maillart, Swiss Writer

Life, Artist, Sense, Wonder

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"Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream."

"Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream."

Mary Wollstonecraft, British Writer

Life, Dream, Heart

37

"For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious."

"For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious."

Thomas Mann, German Writer

Life, Formula, Myth, Unconscious

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"I won't be skating for the rest of my life, that's for sure."

"I won't be skating for the rest of my life, that's for sure."

Elvis Stojko, Canadian Athlete

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"I lived a normal life for a number of years. I had kids. I lived up on a farm in Gloucestershire in rural England, and just kind of got back to reality again."

"I lived a normal life for a number of years. I had kids. I lived up on a farm in Gloucestershire in rural England, and just kind of got back to reality again."

Roger Andrew Taylor, English Musician

Life, England, Kids, Reality

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"Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way."

"Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way."

Beck, American Musician

Life, Time, Work, Writing

37

"Soap opera wouldn't be my first choice, but at this point in my life, I would consider a soap. It would allow me to act and still do other things with my life."

"Soap opera wouldn't be my first choice, but at this point in my life, I would consider a soap. It would allow me to act and still do other things with my life."

Joe Lando, American Actor

Life, Act, Choice, First

37

"Hollywood is very much an industry town. Your life becomes caught up in all of the parties and this list and that list. That's not something that I respond well to."

"Hollywood is very much an industry town. Your life becomes caught up in all of the parties and this list and that list. That's not something that I respond well to."

Don Johnson, American Actor

Life, Hollywood

37

"Love is the foundation from which your decisions about your life should be made."

"Love is the foundation from which your decisions about your life should be made."

Darren L. Johnson, American Author

Life, Love, Decisions

37

"The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of our controls."

"The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of our controls."

Gerald Jampolsky, American Psychologist

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"I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future."

"I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future."

Michael Phelps, American Athlete

Life, Future, Options

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"In another situation, and in an active station in life, I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head."

"In another situation, and in an active station in life, I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head."

Adam Weishaupt, German Clergyman

Life, Founding, Order

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"We're thinking about printing the lyrics with the next record so that people can find their own meaning in them. But then they would start having a life of their own, and I think the Portishead music should stay a whole in which the lyrics come second, actually."

"We're thinking about printing the lyrics with the next record so that people can find their own meaning in them. But then they would start having a life of their own, and I think the Portishead music should stay a whole in which the lyrics come second, actually."

Beth Gibbons, English Musician

Life, Music, People, Meaning

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"Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, their codes."

"Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, their codes."

Marilyn French, American Author

Life, Men, Women, Eyes

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"Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people."

"Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people."

Joe Frazier, American Athlete

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"The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world."

"The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world."

Leonard Bernstein, American Composer

Life, Artist, Feeling, Key

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"I also think stress is related to control. When you're in charge of your life, you tend to not care about losing control of things that don't really matter like traffic jams."

"I also think stress is related to control. When you're in charge of your life, you tend to not care about losing control of things that don't really matter like traffic jams."

Marilu Henner, American Actress

Life, Control, Care, Losing

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"Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then."

"Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Life, Fate, Path, Individuality, Choice

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"My life's experiences, I've always had, my uncle used to call it antenna. I know what's going to happen oftentimes before it happened when it's involving me."

"My life's experiences, I've always had, my uncle used to call it antenna. I know what's going to happen oftentimes before it happened when it's involving me."

Terrence Howard, American Actor

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"The only realistic view is that a human life arises gradually, which is not much help in making personal decisions or devising public policy."

"The only realistic view is that a human life arises gradually, which is not much help in making personal decisions or devising public policy."

George C. Williams, American Scientist

Life, Policy, Decisions, Help

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"At the next General Election, voters face a clear choice: deregulation and less interference in everyday life with the Conservatives, or yet more regulation and interference under Mr Blair."

"At the next General Election, voters face a clear choice: deregulation and less interference in everyday life with the Conservatives, or yet more regulation and interference under Mr Blair."

John Redwood, British Politician

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"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

Pablo Picasso, Spanish Artist

Life, Art, Soul

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"I imagine the life of an atheistic praying mantis to be rather torturous."

"I imagine the life of an atheistic praying mantis to be rather torturous."

Brian Celio, American Novelist

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"I guess the biggest thing is that I committed to a spiritual center before I do anything else. And I put some daily things in my life into practice and I maintain that, to make sure that I don't drop the ball."

"I guess the biggest thing is that I committed to a spiritual center before I do anything else. And I put some daily things in my life into practice and I maintain that, to make sure that I don't drop the ball."

Kathy Mattea, American Musician

Life, Practice, Spiritual

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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."

"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, British Scientist

Life, Beginning, Now

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"I don't know why I don't watch a lot of movies; I can barely keep up with the things my friends are in. There isn't enough time in life."

"I don't know why I don't watch a lot of movies; I can barely keep up with the things my friends are in. There isn't enough time in life."

Meryl Streep, American Actress

Life, Time, Movies, Friends

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"Everything I've ever done in my life has been a fluke."

"Everything I've ever done in my life has been a fluke."

Willard Scott, American Entertainer

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"Your first obligation, I suppose, is to your God. Your second is to your family. And your third is to your community. And you ought to try to fulfill all of those in your life."

"Your first obligation, I suppose, is to your God. Your second is to your family. And your third is to your community. And you ought to try to fulfill all of those in your life."

Dick Murphy, American Politician

Life, Family, God, Community

37

"I think the themes in my songs are very similar from the first album to the newest one. It's all about the human condition and how we are all trying to learn to live with each other and survive love and life."

"I think the themes in my songs are very similar from the first album to the newest one. It's all about the human condition and how we are all trying to learn to live with each other and survive love and life."

Deana Carter, American Musician

Life, Love, First, Songs

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"I have walked away from friendships when I've realized that someone smiles to someone's face and talks about them the minute they walk out of a room. I have no room in my life for that kind of negative energy anymore."

"I have walked away from friendships when I've realized that someone smiles to someone's face and talks about them the minute they walk out of a room. I have no room in my life for that kind of negative energy anymore."

Sophia Bush, American Actress

Life, Negative, Energy, Smiles

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"Oddly enough, MS has made my life so much better than it was before. I now appreciate what I have and I am not running around like a rat in a maze."

"Oddly enough, MS has made my life so much better than it was before. I now appreciate what I have and I am not running around like a rat in a maze."

Teri Garr, American Actress

Life, Now, Running

37

"Any voices or fantasies, he lives with. Those are his everyday life things."

"Any voices or fantasies, he lives with. Those are his everyday life things."

Daniel Craig, English Actor

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"And in order to succeed in later life, you need creative skills because look at how fast the world is changing."

"And in order to succeed in later life, you need creative skills because look at how fast the world is changing."

Robert Sternberg, American Educator

Life, Order, Succeed, World

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"I'd like to do voiceovers my whole life. I get to kind of create a character and go in and play."

"I'd like to do voiceovers my whole life. I get to kind of create a character and go in and play."

Will Friedle, American Actor

Life, Character, Play

37

"I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I'm so depressed, or life is terrible."

"I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I'm so depressed, or life is terrible."

Tony Curtis, American Actor

Life, Depression, Friends, Saying

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"We're newspaper junkies; I can't imagine life without a newspaper."

"We're newspaper junkies; I can't imagine life without a newspaper."

Sally Quinn, American Journalist

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"I learned more about acting from George Stevens in a few months than I had in my entire life up until then."

"I learned more about acting from George Stevens in a few months than I had in my entire life up until then."

Alan Ladd, American Actor

Life, Acting, Months

37

"The only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping and showing off his shortcomings."

"The only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping and showing off his shortcomings."

David Niven, English Actor

Life, Man, Will

37

"Be yourself, fill your life with good people, and don't get a big head. It can all be gone tomorrow."

"Be yourself, fill your life with good people, and don't get a big head. It can all be gone tomorrow."

Molly Sims, American Model

Life, People, Tomorrow

37

"I chose to be Mrs. Johnny Cash in my life. I decided I'd allow him to be Moses and I'd be Moses' brother Aaron, picking his arms up and padding along behind him."

"I chose to be Mrs. Johnny Cash in my life. I decided I'd allow him to be Moses and I'd be Moses' brother Aaron, picking his arms up and padding along behind him."

June Carter Cash, American Musician

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"But we know that the very God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. And sometimes we're called upon to defend both life and liberty - God's blessings to Americans, and indeed, to all of His creation."

"But we know that the very God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. And sometimes we're called upon to defend both life and liberty - God's blessings to Americans, and indeed, to all of His creation."

Sonny Perdue, American Politician

Life, Time, God, Americans

37

"I've always been an animal lover. I've grown up with dogs my whole life. I think that is what helped me get the role on 'Lassie', I was comfortable around the dog, where many of the kids were afraid or intimidated by Lassie."

"I've always been an animal lover. I've grown up with dogs my whole life. I think that is what helped me get the role on 'Lassie', I was comfortable around the dog, where many of the kids were afraid or intimidated by Lassie."

Will Estes, American Actor

Life, Dogs, Kids

37

"The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer."

"The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer."

Bill Watterson, American Cartoonist

Life, Logic, Reality, Want

37

"I am a wanderer passionately in love with life."

"I am a wanderer passionately in love with life."

Aleksandr I. Kuprin, Russian Writer

37

"America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances."

"America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances."

Meryl Streep, American Actress

Life, Age, People, America

37

"One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full."

"One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full."

Muriel Spark, English Novelist

Life, Time, Girls, May

37

"Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict."

"Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict."

Kenneth L. Pike, American Sociologist

Life, Power, Science, God

37

"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!"

"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!"

Gail Sheehy, American Writer

Life, Melancholy

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