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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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"Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life."
Bette Davis
"Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life."
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"When I was growing up, my mother would take me to plays and museums, and we'd talk about life. Those times helped shape who I became."
Jill Scott
"When I was growing up, my mother would take me to plays and museums, and we'd talk about life. Those times helped shape who I became."
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"The Peace Corps is an outstanding organization that promotes peace through helping countless individuals who want to help build a better life for the community in which they serve."
Solomon Ortiz
"The Peace Corps is an outstanding organization that promotes peace through helping countless individuals who want to help build a better life for the community in which they serve."
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"Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you."
Helen Rowland
"Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you."
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"IT is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was, and is, before all a Law College - and should thus have been thrown into close touch with the legal element in life."
Edward Carpenter
"IT is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was, and is, before all a Law College - and should thus have been thrown into close touch with the legal element in life."
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"I'm someone who loves to enjoy life and tries to focus on real things and real friendships. That's why I live very simply. I'm a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl. I don't spend much time fixing myself up or trying to look cool. I live like a normal person and even though I'm in a very high-profile business, I really don't let it affect the way I live."
Cameron Diaz
"I'm someone who loves to enjoy life and tries to focus on real things and real friendships. That's why I live very simply. I'm a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl. I don't spend much time fixing myself up or trying to look cool. I live like a normal person and even though I'm in a very high-profile business, I really don't let it affect the way I live."
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"It's often said that life is strange. But compared to what?"
Steve Forbert
"It's often said that life is strange. But compared to what?"
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"My life's mission is to unmask the Jews."
Julius Streicher
"My life's mission is to unmask the Jews."
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"In quiet places, reason abounds."
Adlai E. Stevenson
"In quiet places, reason abounds."
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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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"Unfortunately this earth is not a fairy-land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh."
Martin Bormann
"Unfortunately this earth is not a fairy-land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh."
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"Marriage, at this point in my life? I'm not interested in it. Yet. Maybe later when I'm 35 or 40."
Amanda Seyfried
"Marriage, at this point in my life? I'm not interested in it. Yet. Maybe later when I'm 35 or 40."
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"Life is such a glorious trauma, is it not?"
J.R. Ward
"Life is such a glorious trauma, is it not?"
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"I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life."
Sammy Hagar
"I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life."
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"The first time I ever screamed at someone was in a scene, and I'd never screamed at someone in my life."
Neve Campbell
"The first time I ever screamed at someone was in a scene, and I'd never screamed at someone in my life."
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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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"Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday."
Wilma Rudolph
"Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday."
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"It was one of the great chances in my life to become a Dumont actor."
Leon Askin
"It was one of the great chances in my life to become a Dumont actor."
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"The statistics of life out there and the statistics of intelligent beings and advanced civilization is a certainty, the way I look at it. that It has not been accepted, because we've been in an anthropocentric era."
Story Musgrave
"The statistics of life out there and the statistics of intelligent beings and advanced civilization is a certainty, the way I look at it. that It has not been accepted, because we've been in an anthropocentric era."
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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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"I don't want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it's to show one emotion."
Pedro Almodovar
"I don't want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it's to show one emotion."
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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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"I think there are huge lessons there, for young people who are getting started in life, as well as other people. And that is, to take responsibility for your own life. Only you are responsible for the course you take from there."
Story Musgrave
"I think there are huge lessons there, for young people who are getting started in life, as well as other people. And that is, to take responsibility for your own life. Only you are responsible for the course you take from there."
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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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"At the end of the day, humans are social animals and we are at our best when we get to do things with others who appreciate and enjoy what we enjoy. It's what keeps us human."
Simon Sinek
"At the end of the day, humans are social animals and we are at our best when we get to do things with others who appreciate and enjoy what we enjoy. It's what keeps us human."
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"The people I worked with were bigger than life. Once you put them on the screen, they were huge."
Bruce Dern
"The people I worked with were bigger than life. Once you put them on the screen, they were huge."
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"For the first time in my life I feel important. I'd like to have five babies."
June Allyson
"For the first time in my life I feel important. I'd like to have five babies."
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"I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense."
Harold Kushner
"I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense."
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"I'm a heroine addict. I need to have sex with women who have saved someone's life."
Mitch Hedberg
"I'm a heroine addict. I need to have sex with women who have saved someone's life."
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"It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be."
Archibald MacLeish
"It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be."
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"I'm proud of what I achieved there, but a life built on memories is not much of a life."
Eric Cantona
"I'm proud of what I achieved there, but a life built on memories is not much of a life."
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"The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me."
Walter Scott
"The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me."
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"The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge."
Jeremy Taylor
"The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge."
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"I would be remiss if I left the impression that my life has been totally preoccupied with scholarly research."
Douglass North
"I would be remiss if I left the impression that my life has been totally preoccupied with scholarly research."
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"One must choose in life between boredom and suffering."
Madame de Stael
"One must choose in life between boredom and suffering."
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"When I was a child, I had posters of James Dean in my room. I was a big admirer of his work and was fascinated by him living on the edge. Looking back, my life was kind of the same."
Boris Becker
"When I was a child, I had posters of James Dean in my room. I was a big admirer of his work and was fascinated by him living on the edge. Looking back, my life was kind of the same."
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"If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state."
Cate Blanchett
"If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state."
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"I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I've never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex."
Erma Bombeck
"I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I've never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex."
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"The reflection upon my situation and that of this army produces many an uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few people know the predicament we are in."
George Washington
"The reflection upon my situation and that of this army produces many an uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few people know the predicament we are in."
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"When you're young you prefer the vulgar months, the fullness of the seasons. As you grow older you learn to like the in-between times, the months that can't make up their minds. Perhaps it's a way of admitting that things can't ever bear the same certainty again."
Julian Barnes
"When you're young you prefer the vulgar months, the fullness of the seasons. As you grow older you learn to like the in-between times, the months that can't make up their minds. Perhaps it's a way of admitting that things can't ever bear the same certainty again."
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"But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh."
Carol Burnett
"But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh."
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"Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road."
Dag Hammarskjold
"Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road."
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"To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains; but at life's outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind."
George Crabbe
"To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains; but at life's outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind."
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"My life is very crazy and busy, but I love it that way."
Hilary Duff
"My life is very crazy and busy, but I love it that way."
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"It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially."
Lauren Bacall
"It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially."
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"I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can."
Joe Namath
"I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can."
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"When I was in my early teens, I remember coming to the conclusion that your life never ends."
Herbie Hancock
"When I was in my early teens, I remember coming to the conclusion that your life never ends."
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