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"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose."
Tennessee Williams
"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose."
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"She believed in getting as much use as possible from everything, and thought that as long as machinery, or anything else, could be cajoled into operation, it should be kept; to do otherwise, she thought, was wasteful."
Alexander McCall Smith
"She believed in getting as much use as possible from everything, and thought that as long as machinery, or anything else, could be cajoled into operation, it should be kept; to do otherwise, she thought, was wasteful."
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"Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice."
Samuel Alexander
"Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice."
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"We have spoken of beings so low in the scale that the individuals throughout their whole existence are not sufficiently specialized to be distinctively plant or animal: yet these are definite life in simpler shape."
Asa Gray
"We have spoken of beings so low in the scale that the individuals throughout their whole existence are not sufficiently specialized to be distinctively plant or animal: yet these are definite life in simpler shape."
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"What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all."
Arthur Miller
"What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all."
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"All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them."
Felix Frankfurter
"All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them."
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"So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die."
William Morris
"So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die."
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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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"It's not the most normal life in the world, but I screw up plenty of times to be a normal teenager."
Mila Kunis
"It's not the most normal life in the world, but I screw up plenty of times to be a normal teenager."
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"I can't wait to see The Grinch. It's so out of the world. Every time a movie like that comes out, I'm stoked. It's like real life."
Tina Yothers
"I can't wait to see The Grinch. It's so out of the world. Every time a movie like that comes out, I'm stoked. It's like real life."
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"A woman of many talents. And intelligent, too. He'd probably have to kill her soon."
Robin Hobb
"A woman of many talents. And intelligent, too. He'd probably have to kill her soon."
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"I believe people who practice their beliefs in daily life are activists."
Jasmine Guy
"I believe people who practice their beliefs in daily life are activists."
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"I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life."
Jodie Foster
"I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life."
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"It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life."
Chanakya
"It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life."
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"I really just followed my musical instincts every step of my life."
Boz Scaggs
"I really just followed my musical instincts every step of my life."
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"I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me."
Ingrid Bergman
"I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me."
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"The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them."
Jean Cocteau
"The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them."
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"Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author."
Arthur Miller
"Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author."
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"Sex, sexual dynamics and how we define our sexuality, is one of the major deals in everyone's life."
Molly Parker
"Sex, sexual dynamics and how we define our sexuality, is one of the major deals in everyone's life."
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"I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either."
Francesca Annis
"I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either."
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"My personal life is the same. At the end of the day, this is just a job. I love what I do, and it's a great job. But it's like my alter ego. There's Chris Brown the singer. And there's Christopher Brown, the down-home Tappahannock boy that plays video games and basketball and hangs out."
Chris Brown
"My personal life is the same. At the end of the day, this is just a job. I love what I do, and it's a great job. But it's like my alter ego. There's Chris Brown the singer. And there's Christopher Brown, the down-home Tappahannock boy that plays video games and basketball and hangs out."
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"My belief in God is responsible for what I am... How can I refuse to talk about something which is so much a prt of my life both as a man and as a actor?"
Robert Vaughn
"My belief in God is responsible for what I am... How can I refuse to talk about something which is so much a prt of my life both as a man and as a actor?"
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"A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it."
Mary A. Ward
"A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it."
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"I spent most of my life locked in my bedroom, miserable about my raging acne."
Moon Unit Zappa
"I spent most of my life locked in my bedroom, miserable about my raging acne."
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"I've had a lot of highs in my life and a lot of lows, some pivotal experiences, and in ways I feel like I've already lived a couple of lives."
Jim Coleman
"I've had a lot of highs in my life and a lot of lows, some pivotal experiences, and in ways I feel like I've already lived a couple of lives."
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"That's true, you don't want to let anybody down and here are millions of people who've been waiting for their favorite characters to be brought to life and you don't want to disappoint."
Rebecca Romijn
"That's true, you don't want to let anybody down and here are millions of people who've been waiting for their favorite characters to be brought to life and you don't want to disappoint."
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"The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle."
Alexis de Tocqueville
"The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle."
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"Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late in life."
Douglas Jerrold
"Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late in life."
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"But most importantly, we can all be donors. It does not matter how old you are, your race, where you live; all of us can give the gift of life."
Jay Inslee
"But most importantly, we can all be donors. It does not matter how old you are, your race, where you live; all of us can give the gift of life."
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"Authentic Christian living has its own order of priority in our lives: God first, others second, self third."
Billy Graham
"Authentic Christian living has its own order of priority in our lives: God first, others second, self third."
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"Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination."
Swami Sivananda
"Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination."
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"As a mom, I always feel I have to protect them. I talk about them because they are the most important things in my life but they are private people. I won't use them for my own press."
Jami Gertz
"As a mom, I always feel I have to protect them. I talk about them because they are the most important things in my life but they are private people. I won't use them for my own press."
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"My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident."
Hans Christian Andersen
"My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident."
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"All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it."
Ted Turner
"All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it."
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"The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much."
William Hazlitt
"The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much."
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"Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well."
Vivienne Westwood
"Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well."
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"Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!"
Andrew Carnegie
"Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!"
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"I'd always felt a man should marry later in life."
Frank Langella
"I'd always felt a man should marry later in life."
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"I've been a long time coming, and I'll be a long time gone. You've got your whole life to do something, and that's not very long."
Ani DiFranco
"I've been a long time coming, and I'll be a long time gone. You've got your whole life to do something, and that's not very long."
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"My life as a working theorist began three months after this preliminary study and background reading, when Oscar gently nudged me toward working on a particular problem."
Rudolph A. Marcus
"My life as a working theorist began three months after this preliminary study and background reading, when Oscar gently nudged me toward working on a particular problem."
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"I guess he wanted to see a little more sexual activity because in real life, in bed I think less is more and let the woman come to me. Frankly, I don't even need a woman there."
"I guess he wanted to see a little more sexual activity because in real life, in bed I think less is more and let the woman come to me. Frankly, I don't even need a woman there."
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"Absolutely committed to spending the rest of my life as a spokesman for the rights of European Americans."
David Duke
"Absolutely committed to spending the rest of my life as a spokesman for the rights of European Americans."
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"War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits her reproductivity and human life is no longer a thing to be wasted."
Margaret Sanger
"War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits her reproductivity and human life is no longer a thing to be wasted."
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"Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live."
Anais Nin
"Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live."
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"I've got over so much. Mum wouldn't want anything to come into my life that would make me fragile again."
Tracey Emin
"I've got over so much. Mum wouldn't want anything to come into my life that would make me fragile again."
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"The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes."
Soren Kierkegaard
"The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes."
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"Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath."
Mary Wollstonecraft
"Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath."
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"The difference being that in films, unlike in life, good does always win over evil in the end."
Ajay Devgan
"The difference being that in films, unlike in life, good does always win over evil in the end."
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"I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try."
Nikki Giovanni
"I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try."
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