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"The life expectancy of a team is about eight months. Then the next year, it's a whole new team."
Mike Krzyzewski
"The life expectancy of a team is about eight months. Then the next year, it's a whole new team."
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"Nearly all educational expenditure should be considered a capital outlay, whether it provides a future return in the form of enhanced taxable income or in terms of an enhanced quality of life."
William Vickrey
"Nearly all educational expenditure should be considered a capital outlay, whether it provides a future return in the form of enhanced taxable income or in terms of an enhanced quality of life."
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"The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life."
Erno Rubik
"The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life."
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"If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet."
Neil Simon
"If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet."
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"When it comes to life and love, why do we believe our worst reviews?"
Sarah Jessica Parker
"When it comes to life and love, why do we believe our worst reviews?"
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"Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light."
Franz Liszt
"Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light."
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"It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you're living your life. I wouldn't compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it's about a man who doesn't appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that."
Adam Sandler
"It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you're living your life. I wouldn't compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it's about a man who doesn't appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that."
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"If we get you in the early years of your life and we fill your head with all of the Catholic stories, then it's very hard for you to stop being Catholic. Catholics are Catholics because they like being Catholic."
Andrew Greeley
"If we get you in the early years of your life and we fill your head with all of the Catholic stories, then it's very hard for you to stop being Catholic. Catholics are Catholics because they like being Catholic."
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"I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened."
Fidel Castro
"I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened."
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"The little things that made up the fabric of the first six years of my life were suddenly ripped away, and I didn't have anyone around me who loved me. Not one single person."
Julie Christie
"The little things that made up the fabric of the first six years of my life were suddenly ripped away, and I didn't have anyone around me who loved me. Not one single person."
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"Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past."
Nikolai Gogol
"Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past."
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"I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings."
Wilhelm Steinitz
"I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings."
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"My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature."
Hans Hofmann
"My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature."
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"I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now."
Jeffrey Archer
"I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now."
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"Life is just more comfortable if you're honest and open about everything. I spent so many years being in the closet about one thing or another."
Antony Sher
"Life is just more comfortable if you're honest and open about everything. I spent so many years being in the closet about one thing or another."
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"Life is a struggle, but not a warfare."
John Burroughs
"Life is a struggle, but not a warfare."
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"If they ever do my life story, whoever plays me needs lots of hair color and high heels."
Charlize Theron
"If they ever do my life story, whoever plays me needs lots of hair color and high heels."
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"I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation."
Don DeLillo
"I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation."
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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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"The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose life will some day be written by a historian who can really give him his due."
Buffalo Bill
"The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose life will some day be written by a historian who can really give him his due."
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"Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life."
Lauren Bacall
"Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life."
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"But I'm trying to play into this role as much as possible and be a nicer person in real life."
Fisher Stevens
"But I'm trying to play into this role as much as possible and be a nicer person in real life."
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"There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation."
Eugene Ionesco
"There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation."
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"To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life."
Albert Finney
"To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life."
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"I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about."
Chuck Palahniuk
"I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about."
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"It's very easy for me to thank everyone for the incredible contribution they've made to my life."
David Geffen
"It's very easy for me to thank everyone for the incredible contribution they've made to my life."
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"Life is a state of consciousness."
Emmet Fox
"Life is a state of consciousness."
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"I didn't fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience - to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers."
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
"I didn't fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience - to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers."
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"My philosophy all my life has been the pursuit of excellence."
John Kluge
"My philosophy all my life has been the pursuit of excellence."
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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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"Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life."
Walter Scott
"Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life."
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"I should only have been as lucky as Valentino, in the movies - I didn't have to be a gigolo. In real life."
Cesar Romero
"I should only have been as lucky as Valentino, in the movies - I didn't have to be a gigolo. In real life."
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"I thought, I'm out in my life, that doesn't involve my public life."
Portia de Rossi
"I thought, I'm out in my life, that doesn't involve my public life."
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"Liberalism, on the other hand, regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situations, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability."
Morris Raphael Cohen
"Liberalism, on the other hand, regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situations, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability."
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"Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?"
Paul Simon
"Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?"
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"Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language."
Alfred North Whitehead
"Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language."
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"We need it to capture the energy of contemporary life."
John Eaton
"We need it to capture the energy of contemporary life."
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"Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose."
Joseph Brodsky
"Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose."
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"I felt the need to get back to painting and I thought the best way was to start drawing, so I enrolled in a life drawing class. I soon discovered that people made very interesting subjects and I am still surprised that I had never discovered it before."
Peter Wright
"I felt the need to get back to painting and I thought the best way was to start drawing, so I enrolled in a life drawing class. I soon discovered that people made very interesting subjects and I am still surprised that I had never discovered it before."
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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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"Not so the scientist. The very essence of his life is the service of truth."
Franz Boas
"Not so the scientist. The very essence of his life is the service of truth."
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"It's very important in life to know when to shut up. You should not be afraid of silence."
Alex Trebek
"It's very important in life to know when to shut up. You should not be afraid of silence."
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"I have a responsibility to nurture and shepherd my talent and when I'm living the parts of my life not related to that I feel I have the right to be left alone."
Ashley Judd
"I have a responsibility to nurture and shepherd my talent and when I'm living the parts of my life not related to that I feel I have the right to be left alone."
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"Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness."
Leon Trotsky
"Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness."
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"The worst thing you can do is to put your life aside for someone else."
Brian Austin Green
"The worst thing you can do is to put your life aside for someone else."
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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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"We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well."
Anton Chekhov
"We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well."
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"I think retirement's for old people. I'm still in the business, thank you. I have a young child of nine years old, and I want to live as long as I can to see him grow up. I'm enjoying my life and I want to stick around for as long as I can."
Harrison Ford
"I think retirement's for old people. I'm still in the business, thank you. I have a young child of nine years old, and I want to live as long as I can to see him grow up. I'm enjoying my life and I want to stick around for as long as I can."
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"The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is."
Ben Stein
"The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is."
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"You have only a short period of time in your life to make your mark, and I'm there now."
George Clooney
"You have only a short period of time in your life to make your mark, and I'm there now."
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