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"My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to just before the First World War and shortly after it. This music I've always known, and it is that music that's most important to me."
Elliott Carter
"My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to just before the First World War and shortly after it. This music I've always known, and it is that music that's most important to me."
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"Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place."
Mira Nair
"Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place."
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"I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it."
Grandma Moses
"I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it."
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"Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself."
"Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself."
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"It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly."
Emma Thompson
"It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly."
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"Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical."
Margaret Fuller
"Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical."
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"And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in the externals, in the journalistic facts of his life."
Mark Strand
"And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in the externals, in the journalistic facts of his life."
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"A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life."
Robert Byrne
"A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life."
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"I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life."
Ethel Waters
"I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life."
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"We want to assert the very principle that truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life."
John Howard
"We want to assert the very principle that truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life."
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"And I just think that we're at a point in our economic life here in our state - and - and, candidly, across the country, where increased taxes is just the wrong way to go. The people of our state are not convinced that state government, county government, local government has done all they can with the money we already give them, rather than the money that we have before."
Chris Christie
"And I just think that we're at a point in our economic life here in our state - and - and, candidly, across the country, where increased taxes is just the wrong way to go. The people of our state are not convinced that state government, county government, local government has done all they can with the money we already give them, rather than the money that we have before."
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"Everyone needs reminders that the fact of their being on this earth is important and that each life changes everything."
Marge Kennedy
"Everyone needs reminders that the fact of their being on this earth is important and that each life changes everything."
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"People say, 'You're still breast-feeding, that's so generous.' Generous, no! It gives me boobs and it takes my thighs away! It's sort of like natural liposuction. I'd carry on breast-feeding for the rest of my life if I could."
Helena Bonham Carter
"People say, 'You're still breast-feeding, that's so generous.' Generous, no! It gives me boobs and it takes my thighs away! It's sort of like natural liposuction. I'd carry on breast-feeding for the rest of my life if I could."
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"Life turned out much better than I thought. I knew after a little while that I could act."
Peter O'Toole
"Life turned out much better than I thought. I knew after a little while that I could act."
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"Whether it's in the right way or sometimes the wrong way, you learn about life and its lessons."
Amelie Mauresmo
"Whether it's in the right way or sometimes the wrong way, you learn about life and its lessons."
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"The thing about Duran... that gives you the ability to bring all that opportunity back into your life."
Andy Taylor
"The thing about Duran... that gives you the ability to bring all that opportunity back into your life."
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"Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life."
Jerzy Kosinski
"Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life."
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"When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may not understand life any better, but we will not resent life any longer."
William Barclay
"When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may not understand life any better, but we will not resent life any longer."
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"We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something."
Sandra Day O'Connor
"We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something."
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"There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves."
Samuel Richardson
"There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves."
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"I play piano and guitar. Acoustic guitar. I tried studying classical guitar when I was 16 but it got really hard. I could never play a lead to save my life."
Kip Winger
"I play piano and guitar. Acoustic guitar. I tried studying classical guitar when I was 16 but it got really hard. I could never play a lead to save my life."
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"You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself."
Peter Garrett
"You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself."
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"I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body."
Calvin Klein
"I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body."
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"I actually have more respect for people who are in the closet. You end up exposing so much of yourself because you have to talk about your sexual life. You shouldn't have to talk about it."
Randy Harrison
"I actually have more respect for people who are in the closet. You end up exposing so much of yourself because you have to talk about your sexual life. You shouldn't have to talk about it."
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"As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation."
Gloria Swanson
"As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation."
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"Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life."
Bette Davis
"Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life."
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"The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this."
Rafael Palmeiro
"The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this."
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"As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible."
Wallace Stevens
"As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible."
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"When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself."
Jacques Yves Cousteau
"When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself."
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"God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages."
William Ellery Channing
"God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages."
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"Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves."
Mark Haddon
"Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves."
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"The most important things in life aren't things."
Anthony J. D'Angelo
"The most important things in life aren't things."
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"The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple."
Freeman Dyson
"The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple."
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"I'm not called Jude Law, I have three names; I'm called 'Hunk Jude Law' or 'Heartthrob Jude Law'. In England anyway, that's my full name. That's the cheap language that's thrown around, that sums you up in one little bracket. It doesn't look at your life. But if one looks beyond, there is actually a little bit more."
Jude Law
"I'm not called Jude Law, I have three names; I'm called 'Hunk Jude Law' or 'Heartthrob Jude Law'. In England anyway, that's my full name. That's the cheap language that's thrown around, that sums you up in one little bracket. It doesn't look at your life. But if one looks beyond, there is actually a little bit more."
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"In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good."
Charles Caleb Colton
"In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good."
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"You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me."
Calvin Coolidge
"You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me."
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"Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming."
Emily Carr
"Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming."
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"The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions."
Barbara Deming
"The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions."
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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 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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"I told her it was a bigger than life musical, that all the actors were going to be about the same age, late twenties into thirties. It would be a style; a kind of surreal high school."
Randal Kleiser
"I told her it was a bigger than life musical, that all the actors were going to be about the same age, late twenties into thirties. It would be a style; a kind of surreal high school."
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"What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry."
Laurie Lee
"What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry."
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"Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life."
Arthur Rimbaud
"Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life."
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"Even from a very early age, I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous."
Nicole Kidman
"Even from a very early age, I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous."
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"Tennis has had a very positive impact on my life."
Gabriela Sabatini
"Tennis has had a very positive impact on my life."
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"How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles."
Richard Burton
"How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles."
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"The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character."
Alfred Jarry
"The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character."
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"I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here."
Robert Anton Wilson
"I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here."
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"Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making the past bear fruit for the present and future."
Lion Feuchtwanger
"Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making the past bear fruit for the present and future."
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"In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson."
Tom Bodett
"In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson."
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