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"Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension."
Joshua L. Liebman
"Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension."
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"It's a miracle to be an actor and to know that you have a job to go to a year from now is a rare thing, so I think peace of mind and financial stability come with that. Hopefully I'm a little wiser and have a little more perspective in my life than I did then."
Debra Messing
"It's a miracle to be an actor and to know that you have a job to go to a year from now is a rare thing, so I think peace of mind and financial stability come with that. Hopefully I'm a little wiser and have a little more perspective in my life than I did then."
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"A lot has been written about Tony Perkins and myself and I figured, Let's get it straight. I had a relationship with Tony for two to three years, but those are only threads in the tapestry of my whole life."
Tab Hunter
"A lot has been written about Tony Perkins and myself and I figured, Let's get it straight. I had a relationship with Tony for two to three years, but those are only threads in the tapestry of my whole life."
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"They are part of lots of sessions that makeup a hazy part of my session life."
Jim Sullivan
"They are part of lots of sessions that makeup a hazy part of my session life."
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"I have lived most my life with chronic inflammation and constant pain with immediate diarrhea."
Mike McCready
"I have lived most my life with chronic inflammation and constant pain with immediate diarrhea."
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"If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles."
Doug Larson
"If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles."
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"Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it."
Lafcadio Hearn
"Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it."
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"Privatizing Social Security doesn't make sense, and it's out of step with the fundamental value of ensuring that after a life spent working hard and contributing to the greatness of our nation, every American should have a secure retirement."
Debbie Stabenow
"Privatizing Social Security doesn't make sense, and it's out of step with the fundamental value of ensuring that after a life spent working hard and contributing to the greatness of our nation, every American should have a secure retirement."
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"Don't let anything stand in the way of you claiming and manifesting the life that you choose rather than the life you have by default."
Joy Page
"Don't let anything stand in the way of you claiming and manifesting the life that you choose rather than the life you have by default."
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"There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from."
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
"There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from."
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"States should have the right to enact laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live."
George W. Bush
"States should have the right to enact laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live."
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"There are particular images that I like. Allegro is composed of a series of still life photographs that has been put to speed. There is so much care that has gone into the composition of the cinematography."
Helena Christensen
"There are particular images that I like. Allegro is composed of a series of still life photographs that has been put to speed. There is so much care that has gone into the composition of the cinematography."
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"At different times in my life I met God from a different point of view."
T-Bone Burnett
"At different times in my life I met God from a different point of view."
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"There's something magical about putting yourself into life. You've got to stand up and take responsibility for your own life and you cannot abandon that."
Bill Kurtis
"There's something magical about putting yourself into life. You've got to stand up and take responsibility for your own life and you cannot abandon that."
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"We sing these songs for the everyday occasions of life, and they are very close to the hearts of our people."
Kiri Te Kanawa
"We sing these songs for the everyday occasions of life, and they are very close to the hearts of our people."
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"After a subsequent interview at Brooklyn Poly, I was hired, and life as a fully independent researcher began."
Rudolph A. Marcus
"After a subsequent interview at Brooklyn Poly, I was hired, and life as a fully independent researcher began."
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"If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live."
Ron Paul
"If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live."
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"The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles."
Charles Horton Cooley
"The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles."
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"The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets."
Al McGuire
"The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets."
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"If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a way of enhancing life."
Robert Mondavi
"If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a way of enhancing life."
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"The real architect of a life is the hard and almost impossible circumstances one faces."
John Paul Warren
"The real architect of a life is the hard and almost impossible circumstances one faces."
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"It's taken me longer still to realize what a short span there is between those life experiences and the rest of your life. That's a job for the people who lived through it."
Jeremy Northam
"It's taken me longer still to realize what a short span there is between those life experiences and the rest of your life. That's a job for the people who lived through it."
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"To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, to be willing to risk your life for it, is the ultimate tragedy."
Leonardo DiCaprio
"To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, to be willing to risk your life for it, is the ultimate tragedy."
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"The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature."
Joseph Campbell
"The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature."
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"Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life."
Giacomo Casanova
"Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life."
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"I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning."
J. B. Priestley
"I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning."
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"I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it."
Ella Maillart
"I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it."
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"It hasn't been smooth or delightful every minute, there were lean years and rough years, but it's been exciting and good and I'm thrilled to be an actress and a singer and to have spent my life this way."
Sally Kellerman
"It hasn't been smooth or delightful every minute, there were lean years and rough years, but it's been exciting and good and I'm thrilled to be an actress and a singer and to have spent my life this way."
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"People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's."
Caroline B. Cooney
"People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's."
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"Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been."
Alan Alda
"Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been."
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"The most important thing for any con artist is never to think like a mark. Marks think they can get something for nothing. Marks think they can get what they don't deserve and could never deserve. Marks are stupid and pathetic and sad. Marks think they're going to go home one night and have the girl they've loved since they were a kid suddenly love them back. Marks forget that whenever something's too good to be true, that's because it's a con."
Holly Black
"The most important thing for any con artist is never to think like a mark. Marks think they can get something for nothing. Marks think they can get what they don't deserve and could never deserve. Marks are stupid and pathetic and sad. Marks think they're going to go home one night and have the girl they've loved since they were a kid suddenly love them back. Marks forget that whenever something's too good to be true, that's because it's a con."
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"Something that has so much power must have life. Instruments have life."
Laurie Anderson
"Something that has so much power must have life. Instruments have life."
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"Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt."
Haruki Murakami
"Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt."
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"Gang violence in America is not a sudden problem. It has been a part of urban life for years, offering an aggressive definition and identity to those seeking a place to belong in the chaos of large metropolitan areas."
Dave Reichert
"Gang violence in America is not a sudden problem. It has been a part of urban life for years, offering an aggressive definition and identity to those seeking a place to belong in the chaos of large metropolitan areas."
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"The only thing I can't do is hear. I can drive, I have a life with four kids, I work on TV, I do movies, so the deafness question, is it that they want to know because, what? Not sure."
Marlee Matlin
"The only thing I can't do is hear. I can drive, I have a life with four kids, I work on TV, I do movies, so the deafness question, is it that they want to know because, what? Not sure."
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"Well," he said. "I hope to God I never make forty -- I wouldn't know what to do with myself."
Hunter S. Thompson
"Well," he said. "I hope to God I never make forty -- I wouldn't know what to do with myself."
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"I have gotten to a point in my life where I don't want to have dinner with someone I don't like."
John Frankenheimer
"I have gotten to a point in my life where I don't want to have dinner with someone I don't like."
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"Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas."
H. L. Mencken
"Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas."
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"One of life's most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn't do our homework, that we are not prepared."
Merlin Olsen
"One of life's most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn't do our homework, that we are not prepared."
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"Let the world know what you live for...not what you fall for!"
John Paul Warren
"Let the world know what you live for...not what you fall for!"
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"I really wanted there to be something in my life that I enjoy just for the beauty of it."
Robert Caro
"I really wanted there to be something in my life that I enjoy just for the beauty of it."
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"When the show's not around any more, it's going to be hard not to have her in my life."
Gillian Anderson
"When the show's not around any more, it's going to be hard not to have her in my life."
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"Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too."
Will Smith
"Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too."
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"To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?"
Edith Wharton
"To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?"
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"I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life."
Laurence Sterne
"I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life."
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"To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past."
Jeanne Moreau
"To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past."
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"I'm sort of in for a penny, in for a pound with Star Trek, It's my life at this point. To deny it would just be foolish."
Jonathan Frakes
"I'm sort of in for a penny, in for a pound with Star Trek, It's my life at this point. To deny it would just be foolish."
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"Sasha snorted. "I have never in my extremely long life seen anyone take so long to answer a question. It's like you went into your brain and got lost. you need a bread crumb, buddy?" He made a noise like he was calling his pet. "Here Lassie, here. Come back girl."
Sherrilyn Kenyon
"Sasha snorted. "I have never in my extremely long life seen anyone take so long to answer a question. It's like you went into your brain and got lost. you need a bread crumb, buddy?" He made a noise like he was calling his pet. "Here Lassie, here. Come back girl."
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"Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new."
Emanuel Celler
"Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new."
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"Though why should we expect age to mellow us? If it isn't life's business to reward merit, why should it be life's business to give us warm, comfortable feelings towards its end? What possible evolutionary purpose could nostalgia serve?"
Julian Barnes
"Though why should we expect age to mellow us? If it isn't life's business to reward merit, why should it be life's business to give us warm, comfortable feelings towards its end? What possible evolutionary purpose could nostalgia serve?"
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