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"Perhaps the greatest challenge has been trying to keep my time to myself and my private life private in order to do my job. Everything that is most mine belongs to everyone now."
Sandra Cisneros
"Perhaps the greatest challenge has been trying to keep my time to myself and my private life private in order to do my job. Everything that is most mine belongs to everyone now."
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"Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us."
Boris Pasternak
"Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us."
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"When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in their company that we are really and truly alive."
William Barclay
"When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in their company that we are really and truly alive."
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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 had a very strong-willed mother, who I totally adored. She was always in control of her life."
Jan de Bont
"I had a very strong-willed mother, who I totally adored. She was always in control of her life."
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"Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it."
Viktor E. Frankl
"Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it."
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"Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences."
John Buchan
"Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences."
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"For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake."
Alfred Hitchcock
"For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake."
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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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"Most of my father's life consisted of traveling to almost every part of Europe."
Sigrid Undset
"Most of my father's life consisted of traveling to almost every part of Europe."
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"The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life."
Andre Maurois
"The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life."
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"There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land."
Harriet Martineau
"There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land."
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"Sometimes when you make a film you can go away for three months and then come back and live your life. But this struck a much deeper chord. I don't have the ability yet to speak about it in an objective."
Keanu Reeves
"Sometimes when you make a film you can go away for three months and then come back and live your life. But this struck a much deeper chord. I don't have the ability yet to speak about it in an objective."
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"There are only two sorts of people in life you can trust - good Christians and good Communists."
Joe Slovo
"There are only two sorts of people in life you can trust - good Christians and good Communists."
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"So don't think in reality I am a singer, I think I am a human being that has sung always all her life, and has learned a little to sing, and has found herself in the middle of a career."
Victoria de los Angeles
"So don't think in reality I am a singer, I think I am a human being that has sung always all her life, and has learned a little to sing, and has found herself in the middle of a career."
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"Beloved, till life can charm no more; And mourned, till Pity's self be dead."
William Collins
"Beloved, till life can charm no more; And mourned, till Pity's self be dead."
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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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"The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures."
Stewart Udall
"The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures."
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"I was going to be living there and I didn't want to sound like a foreigner all my life."
John Mahoney
"I was going to be living there and I didn't want to sound like a foreigner all my life."
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"I've literally, in my entire life I've had two guys come up to me and ask me out. Other than that I have had to go and try to like spend time with them, or sort of start the conversation, basically like spell it out in a Sharpie, like, you know?"
Jennifer Love Hewitt
"I've literally, in my entire life I've had two guys come up to me and ask me out. Other than that I have had to go and try to like spend time with them, or sort of start the conversation, basically like spell it out in a Sharpie, like, you know?"
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"I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me."
Lorna Luft
"I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me."
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"Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending."
Jim Henson
"Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending."
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"If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place."
Orison Swett Marden
"If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place."
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"Life should be great rather than long."
B. R. Ambedkar
"Life should be great rather than long."
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"There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting."
A. J. P. Taylor
"There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting."
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"In contrast, Christianity, while acknowledging the presence of suffering, declares that life can be infinitely worth living and opens the way to eternal life in fellowship with God Who so loved the world that He gave Himself in Christ."
Kenneth Scott Latourette
"In contrast, Christianity, while acknowledging the presence of suffering, declares that life can be infinitely worth living and opens the way to eternal life in fellowship with God Who so loved the world that He gave Himself in Christ."
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"Today is a most unusual day, because we have never lived it before; we will never live it again; it is the only day we have."
William Arthur Ward
"Today is a most unusual day, because we have never lived it before; we will never live it again; it is the only day we have."
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"A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."
Walter Bagehot
"A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."
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"It's amazing how coke encompasses everything in your life. Addicts cannot confront life because they only think of their next hit. I ruined life for my parents, my sister and all my friends."
Kirstie Alley
"It's amazing how coke encompasses everything in your life. Addicts cannot confront life because they only think of their next hit. I ruined life for my parents, my sister and all my friends."
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"Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than themselves; those we loved were merely happy shadows."
Georges Duhamel
"Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than themselves; those we loved were merely happy shadows."
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"Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain."
Nagarjuna
"Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain."
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"Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes."
Tom Cochrane
"Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes."
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"Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!"
Paul Gauguin
"Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!"
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"I feel in the depths of my soul that it is the highest, most sacred, and most irreversible part of my obligation to preserve the union of these states, although it may cost me my life."
Andrew Jackson
"I feel in the depths of my soul that it is the highest, most sacred, and most irreversible part of my obligation to preserve the union of these states, although it may cost me my life."
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"My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?"
Flip Wilson
"My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?"
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"Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life."
Mikhail Gorbachev
"Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life."
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"There are two kinds of cloning right now. One is therapeutic cloning which is for coming up with cures for life threatening, really, really awful diseases. Then there is reproductive cloning, which is to make a human being out of your DNA and a donor egg."
Mary Tyler Moore
"There are two kinds of cloning right now. One is therapeutic cloning which is for coming up with cures for life threatening, really, really awful diseases. Then there is reproductive cloning, which is to make a human being out of your DNA and a donor egg."
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"The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit."
Ansel Adams
"The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit."
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"When I came into the business, things changed a lot, and my life was in a real state of flux."
Rachael Leigh Cook
"When I came into the business, things changed a lot, and my life was in a real state of flux."
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"A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example."
Niccolo Machiavelli
"A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example."
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"The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute."
Rebecca H. Davis
"The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute."
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"My parents are older, and they lead a somewhat sheltered life. It was difficult to talk with them about things that were embarrassing to me, and that I had never spoken to them about."
Anita Hill
"My parents are older, and they lead a somewhat sheltered life. It was difficult to talk with them about things that were embarrassing to me, and that I had never spoken to them about."
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"If it wasn't for pick-pockets I'd have no sex life at all."
Rodney Dangerfield
"If it wasn't for pick-pockets I'd have no sex life at all."
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"I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene."
Christian Bale
"I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene."
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"You go through life in a series of peaks and valleys."
Gloria Grahame
"You go through life in a series of peaks and valleys."
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"For me, there is nothing worse than the knowledge that my life holds nothing for me but being a writer."
Jean Stafford
"For me, there is nothing worse than the knowledge that my life holds nothing for me but being a writer."
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"You have the right to kill me, but you don't have the right to judge me. That's life. There's nobility in that. There's focus. It's genuine. It's crystal and it's pure and it's available to everybody, so just shut your traps and put down your McDonalds, your vaccines, your Us Weekly, your TMZ and the rest of it."
Charlie Sheen
"You have the right to kill me, but you don't have the right to judge me. That's life. There's nobility in that. There's focus. It's genuine. It's crystal and it's pure and it's available to everybody, so just shut your traps and put down your McDonalds, your vaccines, your Us Weekly, your TMZ and the rest of it."
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"Life is best when you are in love."
Michael Moriarty
"Life is best when you are in love."
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"Even the most malignant gods would not continue to inflict life upon humanity, time without end."
Taylor Caldwell
"Even the most malignant gods would not continue to inflict life upon humanity, time without end."
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"What I used to play was rhythm guitar before I saw Jack Bruce. I said, That's what I want to do in life. He was definitely the main influence."
Geezer Butler
"What I used to play was rhythm guitar before I saw Jack Bruce. I said, That's what I want to do in life. He was definitely the main influence."
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