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"When we are out there selling a new picture, when did it become part of the deal that you have to sell the family? To use the juicy part of your life to get attention? I'm not blaming the reporters. It's the system."
Jimmy Smits
"When we are out there selling a new picture, when did it become part of the deal that you have to sell the family? To use the juicy part of your life to get attention? I'm not blaming the reporters. It's the system."
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"Chasing the sensation. Whether it was drugs or sex or whatever. Those things had become my main focus in life."
Rick Allen
"Chasing the sensation. Whether it was drugs or sex or whatever. Those things had become my main focus in life."
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"I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments."
Julius Caesar
"I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments."
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"When I see myself on film it makes me smile, I mean making a good living doing what I enjoy is soo much fun. I just hope that everyone has the chance to enjoy life like I do."
Adrienne Barbeau
"When I see myself on film it makes me smile, I mean making a good living doing what I enjoy is soo much fun. I just hope that everyone has the chance to enjoy life like I do."
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"Then we got into a labyrinth, and, when we thought we were at the end,came out again at the beginning, having still to see as much as ever."
Plato
"Then we got into a labyrinth, and, when we thought we were at the end,came out again at the beginning, having still to see as much as ever."
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"I really live a simple life and don't need very much to feel good and happy. Don't get me wrong; I believe you should get what you earn. Sometimes you have to fight for it."
Kevin Eubanks
"I really live a simple life and don't need very much to feel good and happy. Don't get me wrong; I believe you should get what you earn. Sometimes you have to fight for it."
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"Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children."
Shirley Jackson
"Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children."
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"Four months is a lot of living with that little life in you-thinking about it, eating right for it, nurturing it and all of a sudden, it dies."
Christie Brinkley
"Four months is a lot of living with that little life in you-thinking about it, eating right for it, nurturing it and all of a sudden, it dies."
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"This was Shakespeare's form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all mankind doth now, will ever, that experience yield which his own genius only could acquire."
Mark Akenside
"This was Shakespeare's form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all mankind doth now, will ever, that experience yield which his own genius only could acquire."
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"The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint."
J. M. Coetzee
"The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint."
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"My life's actually been quite dull; it's not all that glamorous."
Elizabeth Wurtzel
"My life's actually been quite dull; it's not all that glamorous."
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"Because after my first year I had a lot of success, took everybody by storm, came back the next year thought it was easy and didn't have near the season I had the previous year. It was kind of a wake-up call. And so, life goes on."
Brett Favre
"Because after my first year I had a lot of success, took everybody by storm, came back the next year thought it was easy and didn't have near the season I had the previous year. It was kind of a wake-up call. And so, life goes on."
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"Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim."
William Feather
"Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim."
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"I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football."
John Cale
"I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football."
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"Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life."
Matthew McConaughey
"Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life."
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"Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth."
Franz Kafka
"Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth."
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"Yes, thanks to God... my life has a goal, much more important than my artistic activities, that is the struggle against Leukemia."
Jose Carreras
"Yes, thanks to God... my life has a goal, much more important than my artistic activities, that is the struggle against Leukemia."
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"Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling."
Wavy Gravy
"Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling."
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"We want to assert the very principle that truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life."
John Howard
"We want to assert the very principle that truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life."
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"It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that were a part of my early life, some who might be following the same paths might not make those same mistakes."
John Clayton
"It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that were a part of my early life, some who might be following the same paths might not make those same mistakes."
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"From the beginning, I imagined I would have a long work life."
Bruce Springsteen
"From the beginning, I imagined I would have a long work life."
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"And I just think that we're at a point in our economic life here in our state - and - and, candidly, across the country, where increased taxes is just the wrong way to go. The people of our state are not convinced that state government, county government, local government has done all they can with the money we already give them, rather than the money that we have before."
Chris Christie
"And I just think that we're at a point in our economic life here in our state - and - and, candidly, across the country, where increased taxes is just the wrong way to go. The people of our state are not convinced that state government, county government, local government has done all they can with the money we already give them, rather than the money that we have before."
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"Mr. Lincoln's elevation shows that in America every station in life may be honorable; that there is no barrier against the humblest; but that merit, wherever it exists, has the opportunity to be known."
Matthew Simpson
"Mr. Lincoln's elevation shows that in America every station in life may be honorable; that there is no barrier against the humblest; but that merit, wherever it exists, has the opportunity to be known."
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"Because I've lived in one room my entire life, working at the same table that you use to pay bills at and eat at. It's going to be nice to have actual space."
Augusten Burroughs
"Because I've lived in one room my entire life, working at the same table that you use to pay bills at and eat at. It's going to be nice to have actual space."
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"Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life."
Max Beckmann
"Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life."
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"My personal life was fair game. And that's what hurt me."
Marla Maples
"My personal life was fair game. And that's what hurt me."
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"I can't comment on any outside perception. I'm happy to come out and talk about movies that I've worked on in a setting like this. Otherwise, I have my own life that I live which is very different and private."
Jennifer Connelly
"I can't comment on any outside perception. I'm happy to come out and talk about movies that I've worked on in a setting like this. Otherwise, I have my own life that I live which is very different and private."
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"Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul."
Rebecca West
"Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul."
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"To me rites of passage through life, that's a wonderful, beautiful thing."
Lance Henriksen
"To me rites of passage through life, that's a wonderful, beautiful thing."
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"I have a lot of friends who get up most mornings and go to jobs they absolutely hate. I don't think that's what life is about and I'm so fortunate that I actually love what I do."
Jerry Herman
"I have a lot of friends who get up most mornings and go to jobs they absolutely hate. I don't think that's what life is about and I'm so fortunate that I actually love what I do."
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"The RNA World referred to an hypothetical stage in the origin of life on Earth."
Sidney Altman
"The RNA World referred to an hypothetical stage in the origin of life on Earth."
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"Singing is my life. It has always been my life. It will always be my life."
Celia Cruz
"Singing is my life. It has always been my life. It will always be my life."
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"One of the problems that we have as American journalists is that we bring the American cultural baggage with us and we plop it down and it follows us around and that's just a fact of life."
John Pomfret
"One of the problems that we have as American journalists is that we bring the American cultural baggage with us and we plop it down and it follows us around and that's just a fact of life."
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"They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not."
Katherine Anne Porter
"They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not."
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"The Bible does not teach that sin is completely eradicated from the Christian in this life, but it does teach that sin shall no longer reign over you."
Billy Graham
"The Bible does not teach that sin is completely eradicated from the Christian in this life, but it does teach that sin shall no longer reign over you."
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"I have had a lot of adversaries in my political life, but no enemies that I can remember."
Gerald R. Ford
"I have had a lot of adversaries in my political life, but no enemies that I can remember."
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"When you're a father, you know exactly where your heart really is. There's no question of it, no doubt. That part of your life has no second guessing."
Fred Ward
"When you're a father, you know exactly where your heart really is. There's no question of it, no doubt. That part of your life has no second guessing."
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"It's all about creating a back story for the character and developing emotional responses that are true to life in relation to the character. It isn't necessary to live a tragic life to create from that place."
Corin Nemec
"It's all about creating a back story for the character and developing emotional responses that are true to life in relation to the character. It isn't necessary to live a tragic life to create from that place."
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"Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it."
Alexander Herzen
"Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it."
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"Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?"
Charles de Lint
"Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?"
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"No, I had a back injury early on in my life."
Merle Haggard
"No, I had a back injury early on in my life."
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"I've watched those shows my whole life - being on one is like a dream. It's hard to balance that dream with the fact that this is the Edie I've known my whole life."
Edie Falco
"I've watched those shows my whole life - being on one is like a dream. It's hard to balance that dream with the fact that this is the Edie I've known my whole life."
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"Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life."
Walter Kaufmann
"Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life."
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"So be encouraged and dedicate yourself to your dream and if your dream should come my way one day then we will dance upon the boards of life."
Ben Vereen
"So be encouraged and dedicate yourself to your dream and if your dream should come my way one day then we will dance upon the boards of life."
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"Compared with the thousands of years in which human life has been on this planet, Christianity is a recent development."
Kenneth Scott Latourette
"Compared with the thousands of years in which human life has been on this planet, Christianity is a recent development."
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"The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven."
Cyril Connolly
"The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven."
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"Livable neighborhoods with a vibrant street life will stimulate our economic life as well."
Gavin Newsom
"Livable neighborhoods with a vibrant street life will stimulate our economic life as well."
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"Don't get too caught up in making money or having a job, get excited about the fact that you can design your life."
Darren L. Johnson
"Don't get too caught up in making money or having a job, get excited about the fact that you can design your life."
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"I don't care who you love. If you love this country enough to risk your life for it, you shouldn't have to hide who you are."
Ron Wyden
"I don't care who you love. If you love this country enough to risk your life for it, you shouldn't have to hide who you are."
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"There is both joy and suffering on planet Earth because this beautiful world is a world of duality - a world of opposites. There is an opposite side to everything."
Rhonda Byrne
"There is both joy and suffering on planet Earth because this beautiful world is a world of duality - a world of opposites. There is an opposite side to everything."
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