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"I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any."
Jean Rhys
"I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any."
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"The average rap life is two or three albums. You're lucky to get to your second album in rap!"
Jay Z
"The average rap life is two or three albums. You're lucky to get to your second album in rap!"
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"Sensible motivation is always effective."
Rajen Jani
"Sensible motivation is always effective."
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"If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself."
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
"If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself."
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"I'm interested in people that don't always do the right thing, its much more akin to what I know about life."
Thomas Jane
"I'm interested in people that don't always do the right thing, its much more akin to what I know about life."
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"Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the second part condemned to being one."
S. E. Hinton
"Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the second part condemned to being one."
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"Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will."
Alistair Cooke
"Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will."
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"Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die."
Margaret J. Wheatley
"Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die."
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"When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself to life on the land before going up to Cambridge."
Patrick White
"When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself to life on the land before going up to Cambridge."
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"I've led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for at least one more generation."
Larry David
"I've led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for at least one more generation."
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"You just have to do your own thing, no matter what anyone says. It's your life."
Ethan Embry
"You just have to do your own thing, no matter what anyone says. It's your life."
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"I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn't excite me and didn't even remotely connect to the realities of my life."
R. A. Salvatore
"I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn't excite me and didn't even remotely connect to the realities of my life."
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"Believe in Your HeartBelieve in your heart that you're meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles."
Roy T. Bennett
"Believe in Your HeartBelieve in your heart that you're meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles."
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"My sport taught me what I could do with my talents, whether in the rink or in the rest of my life."
Peggy Fleming
"My sport taught me what I could do with my talents, whether in the rink or in the rest of my life."
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"I don't have anything to fix! I don't smoke, I don't drink, and I don't eat carbs. My life is just great now. Normal. Vanilla."
Jason Bateman
"I don't have anything to fix! I don't smoke, I don't drink, and I don't eat carbs. My life is just great now. Normal. Vanilla."
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"I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in; we have to do with sober, sad realities, with stubborn facts."
Ernestine Rose
"I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in; we have to do with sober, sad realities, with stubborn facts."
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"Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest."
Thomas de Quincey
"Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest."
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"Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is."
Max Muller
"Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is."
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"I had a breakthrough, I think my life just became calmer, I gave up drinking. My priorities changed as I had a young daughter. The group didn't want me to record for the Think Tank album... so I took it as a sign to leave."
Graham Coxon
"I had a breakthrough, I think my life just became calmer, I gave up drinking. My priorities changed as I had a young daughter. The group didn't want me to record for the Think Tank album... so I took it as a sign to leave."
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"Speaking as a Democrat, all my life battling for what I conceived to be Democracy, and what I conceived to be right, I am yet an American above Democracy."
Richard Parks Bland
"Speaking as a Democrat, all my life battling for what I conceived to be Democracy, and what I conceived to be right, I am yet an American above Democracy."
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"A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature."
Seneca
"A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature."
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"I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life."
Tupac Shakur
"I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life."
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"In the life of a singer, it's not all triumphs and happy memories; there are days you have to go out there when it's the last thing you feel like doing."
Mireille Mathieu
"In the life of a singer, it's not all triumphs and happy memories; there are days you have to go out there when it's the last thing you feel like doing."
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"Surely the whole point of writing your own life story is to be as honest as you possibly can, revealing everything about yourself that is most private and probably most interesting for that very reason."
Judith Krantz
"Surely the whole point of writing your own life story is to be as honest as you possibly can, revealing everything about yourself that is most private and probably most interesting for that very reason."
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"The rules of life are nothing that cannot be fixed."
Shannon A. Thompson
"The rules of life are nothing that cannot be fixed."
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"Hope is a strong encouragement."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"Hope is a strong encouragement."
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"Live your life fom your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people's souls."
Melody Beattie
"Live your life fom your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people's souls."
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"I'm currently unsupervised It frisks me out too but the possibilities are endless."
Darynda Jones
"I'm currently unsupervised It frisks me out too but the possibilities are endless."
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"Yet there be certain times in a young man's life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared away so that he passes at one step to the more sorrowful state of manhood."
Rudyard Kipling
"Yet there be certain times in a young man's life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared away so that he passes at one step to the more sorrowful state of manhood."
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"I was not willing to give up because I was born to like taking risks and that is my way of life."
Alain Robert
"I was not willing to give up because I was born to like taking risks and that is my way of life."
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"Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world."
Elie Wiesel
"Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world."
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"Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life."
Germaine Greer
"Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life."
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"Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory."
Tennessee Williams
"Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory."
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"Live life to the fullest, for the future is scarce."
Nick Carter
"Live life to the fullest, for the future is scarce."
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"I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance."
bell hooks
"I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance."
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"You've got to be a disciplined person if you want to succeed both in sport and in life."
Lynn Davies
"You've got to be a disciplined person if you want to succeed both in sport and in life."
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"My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short."
Armistead Maupin
"My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short."
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"I think it's your duty to overcome what you inherit in life."
Kelsey Grammer
"I think it's your duty to overcome what you inherit in life."
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"True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it was, and is, the sheer weight of numbers of those who failed of this that has made their influence on the modern life as pervasive and controlling as it is."
Ralph A. Cram
"True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it was, and is, the sheer weight of numbers of those who failed of this that has made their influence on the modern life as pervasive and controlling as it is."
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"In the early ages, I believe not much thought was given to what man is and what his real functions should be, and what is the real purpose of his life."
Morarji Desai
"In the early ages, I believe not much thought was given to what man is and what his real functions should be, and what is the real purpose of his life."
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"You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes."
Daniel Clowes
"You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes."
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"Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated."
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"As the first hard drops of rain fell, the Witch caught sight, not of the girl's face, but of the shoes. Her sister's shoes. They sparkled even in the darkening afternoon. They sparkled like yellow diamonds, and embers of blood, and thorny stars."
Gregory Maguire
"As the first hard drops of rain fell, the Witch caught sight, not of the girl's face, but of the shoes. Her sister's shoes. They sparkled even in the darkening afternoon. They sparkled like yellow diamonds, and embers of blood, and thorny stars."
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"You have to remember we're just performers, that we seldom have any kind of grasp on real life."
Tom Kenny
"You have to remember we're just performers, that we seldom have any kind of grasp on real life."
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"I just see myself as a human being that's concerned about life."
Charlie Haden
"I just see myself as a human being that's concerned about life."
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"I was blown away by being able to color. Then I started to draw... bringing a blank white canvas to life was fascinating."
James De La Vega
"I was blown away by being able to color. Then I started to draw... bringing a blank white canvas to life was fascinating."
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"To make a difference is just... I think... the purpose of what life is."
Anastacia
"To make a difference is just... I think... the purpose of what life is."
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"Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life."
Charles Stuart Calverley
"Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life."
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"There's something in the moment when you can make them laugh or cry and show and incredibly compassionate side of life. I find that a really exemplary way to live."
Gedde Watanabe
"There's something in the moment when you can make them laugh or cry and show and incredibly compassionate side of life. I find that a really exemplary way to live."
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"You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy."
Neil Simon
"You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy."
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