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"I don't read such boring things. Life is too short."
Gyorgy Ligeti
"I don't read such boring things. Life is too short."
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"I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I'm pig-headed."
Michael Caine
"I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I'm pig-headed."
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"Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know, and feel, that your life is but a dream."
Donald G. Mitchell
"Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know, and feel, that your life is but a dream."
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"I live a very low-key life."
Martin Yan
"I live a very low-key life."
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"I did, I'd say, at least about 80 percent of the rest of the driving, and I had the time of my life."
David Hasselhoff
"I did, I'd say, at least about 80 percent of the rest of the driving, and I had the time of my life."
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"I always thought the point was to have a bigger life, to meet more people. So I don't understand Hollywood."
Kathleen Turner
"I always thought the point was to have a bigger life, to meet more people. So I don't understand Hollywood."
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"The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions."
Alfred Adler
"The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions."
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"As you get older and ease your way into being a character actor you have to be comfortable with where you are in life and career, and I'm very comfortable with what I'm doing - working on projects I'm proud of."
George Clooney
"As you get older and ease your way into being a character actor you have to be comfortable with where you are in life and career, and I'm very comfortable with what I'm doing - working on projects I'm proud of."
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"Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life."
Charles M. Schulz
"Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life."
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"Don't you know that every perfect life would mean the end of art?"
Robert Musil
"Don't you know that every perfect life would mean the end of art?"
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"I think I'll work all my life. When you're having fun, why stop having fun?"
Helen Thomas
"I think I'll work all my life. When you're having fun, why stop having fun?"
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"Trees Lounge is based on my own life. Both my parents like the movie. My father, of course, thinks it's a masterpiece."
Steve Buscemi
"Trees Lounge is based on my own life. Both my parents like the movie. My father, of course, thinks it's a masterpiece."
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"Well, there are conjoined twins in real life and we can tell a story about them so long as they're not the brunt of the jokes. In this, they're the heroes of this story; we love these guys."
Bobby Farrelly
"Well, there are conjoined twins in real life and we can tell a story about them so long as they're not the brunt of the jokes. In this, they're the heroes of this story; we love these guys."
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"Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?"
Paul Cezanne
"Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?"
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"How do I feel about being a star now? Well I still try to live life and enjoy what I am doing."
Christian Slater
"How do I feel about being a star now? Well I still try to live life and enjoy what I am doing."
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"The powerful men in my life have always believed in me: my husband, my son."
Judy Collins
"The powerful men in my life have always believed in me: my husband, my son."
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"We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time."
Hugh Leonard
"We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time."
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"The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation."
Konstantin Stanislavisky
"The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation."
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"I believed in God my whole life."
Andy Dick
"I believed in God my whole life."
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"Nearly everything in life goes in threes and fours."
Ninette de Valois
"Nearly everything in life goes in threes and fours."
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"Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors."
Eugene O'Neill
"Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors."
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"Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses."
Rosalind Russell
"Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses."
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"Children are so creative and imaginative that they just bring you to life all over again."
Moira Kelly
"Children are so creative and imaginative that they just bring you to life all over again."
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"If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life."
Isaiah Thomas
"If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life."
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"I only want to do better work. That's the focus of my life."
Ajay Devgan
"I only want to do better work. That's the focus of my life."
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"You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need."
Vernon Howard
"You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need."
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"Well what I will tell you is for this movie, I got into probably the best shape of my life."
Tea Leoni
"Well what I will tell you is for this movie, I got into probably the best shape of my life."
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"Now I'm seen by more people in one episode than I was in 20 years of theatre and movies. It's gratifying to have an impact on 25 million people a night, but I can say goodbye to my lunch-pail life as a working actor. I'm scared I might be a celebrity."
William Petersen
"Now I'm seen by more people in one episode than I was in 20 years of theatre and movies. It's gratifying to have an impact on 25 million people a night, but I can say goodbye to my lunch-pail life as a working actor. I'm scared I might be a celebrity."
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"I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy."
Keanu Reeves
"I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy."
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"Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self."
B. R. Ambedkar
"Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self."
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"Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all."
Emile M. Cioran
"Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all."
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"In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts."
Peter McWilliams
"In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts."
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"We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughing and blushing, given to no other animal... in any given moment, by not exercising the option of suicide, we are choosing to live."
Peter McWilliams
"We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughing and blushing, given to no other animal... in any given moment, by not exercising the option of suicide, we are choosing to live."
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"As the President has indicated, my life has been a life of travel - for 60 years constantly moving over the wide world on journeys which first and last have taken me to 83 countries, and, what is more significant, to most of them again and again."
John Raleigh Mott
"As the President has indicated, my life has been a life of travel - for 60 years constantly moving over the wide world on journeys which first and last have taken me to 83 countries, and, what is more significant, to most of them again and again."
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"I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless."
Anne Stevenson
"I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless."
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"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome."
Booker T. Washington
"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome."
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"One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name."
Walter Scott
"One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name."
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"There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.'No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster."
Dalai Lama XIV
"There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.'No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster."
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"To become a classical ballerina, you have to move to New York when you're 12 or 11 and that becomes your life. I just wanted to be good in my company in Charleston and I wanted it to always be part of my life."
Jennifer Garner
"To become a classical ballerina, you have to move to New York when you're 12 or 11 and that becomes your life. I just wanted to be good in my company in Charleston and I wanted it to always be part of my life."
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"The web of life is a beautiful and meaningless dance. The web of life is a process with a moving goal. The web of life is a perfectly finished work of art right where I am sitting now."
Robert Anton Wilson
"The web of life is a beautiful and meaningless dance. The web of life is a process with a moving goal. The web of life is a perfectly finished work of art right where I am sitting now."
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"I was already set for life when I met her."
David Gest
"I was already set for life when I met her."
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"The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life."
Jonathan Franzen
"The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life."
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"Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that 'this too shall pass!'"
Eleanor Roosevelt
"Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that 'this too shall pass!'"
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"I came to Christ when I was thirty-eight. That transformed my life."
Jennifer O'Neill
"I came to Christ when I was thirty-eight. That transformed my life."
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"At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life."
Robert Caro
"At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life."
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"The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service."
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"I don't want to be dragging myself on stage, year in year out, until someone else tells me it is time to go. There are certain birthdays that make you revalue your life."
Tina Turner
"I don't want to be dragging myself on stage, year in year out, until someone else tells me it is time to go. There are certain birthdays that make you revalue your life."
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"It's a great time to be an actress at this point in my life."
Christine Baranski
"It's a great time to be an actress at this point in my life."
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"Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors."
Eugene O'Neill
"Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors."
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"The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it."
Pearl S. Buck
"The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it."
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