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"Self-belief is not self-centred. We can only fight effectively for others if we already believe in ourselves."
Carla H. Krueger
"Self-belief is not self-centred. We can only fight effectively for others if we already believe in ourselves."
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"I have always thought music as a way out of the ordinary mundane obligations of life."
Martha Reeves
"I have always thought music as a way out of the ordinary mundane obligations of life."
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"Alone, alone. I am alone " I ache. Yet for the first time, despite all the anguish and the reality problems, I'm here. I feel tranquil, whole, ADULT."
Susan Sontag
"Alone, alone. I am alone " I ache. Yet for the first time, despite all the anguish and the reality problems, I'm here. I feel tranquil, whole, ADULT."
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"I get half a million just to show up at parties. My life is, like, really, really fun."
Paris Hilton
"I get half a million just to show up at parties. My life is, like, really, really fun."
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"We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather."
Barbara Ehrenreich
"We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather."
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"We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead."
Sophocles
"We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead."
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"If you're afraid to live your life in a glass bubble, how can you do what we do in this industry?"
Jimmy Smits
"If you're afraid to live your life in a glass bubble, how can you do what we do in this industry?"
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"Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love."
Mel Brooks
"Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love."
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"Life is like riding a bicycle: you don't fall off unless you stop pedaling."
Claude Pepper
"Life is like riding a bicycle: you don't fall off unless you stop pedaling."
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"The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before."
Ron Silver
"The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before."
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"It's hard to know whether certain characters come to life or not, they either come to have their own life or they don't. I've written many things in which the characters just remain inert."
Neil Jordan
"It's hard to know whether certain characters come to life or not, they either come to have their own life or they don't. I've written many things in which the characters just remain inert."
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"It is difficult to undo our own damage, and to recall to our presence that which we have asked to leave. It is hard to desecrate a grove and change your mind. The very holy mountains are keeping mum. We doused the burning bush and cannot rekindle it; we are lighting matches in vain under every green tree."
Annie Dillard
"It is difficult to undo our own damage, and to recall to our presence that which we have asked to leave. It is hard to desecrate a grove and change your mind. The very holy mountains are keeping mum. We doused the burning bush and cannot rekindle it; we are lighting matches in vain under every green tree."
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"In the frame of a known phenomenon of life, a human could be defined as the only proven thinking creature."
Eraldo Banovac
"In the frame of a known phenomenon of life, a human could be defined as the only proven thinking creature."
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"I am, of course, aware that the ultimate solution is the ownership and control of the means of life by the whole of the people; but we are not at that stage of development as yet."
James Larkin
"I am, of course, aware that the ultimate solution is the ownership and control of the means of life by the whole of the people; but we are not at that stage of development as yet."
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"I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things."
Robert Plant
"I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things."
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"There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why."
William Barclay
"There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why."
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"You know, I've sung a lot of emotional songs in my life, but when you're writing it yourself, it's very difficult to decide what to reveal."
Diana Krall
"You know, I've sung a lot of emotional songs in my life, but when you're writing it yourself, it's very difficult to decide what to reveal."
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"In the beginning there was the word. The word was Jah. The word is in I, Jah is in I. I make what is good, better, and what is better, best. I follow this in every aspect of life."
Peter Tosh
"In the beginning there was the word. The word was Jah. The word is in I, Jah is in I. I make what is good, better, and what is better, best. I follow this in every aspect of life."
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"Sometimes you make choices in life, and sometimes choices make you."
Gayle Forman
"Sometimes you make choices in life, and sometimes choices make you."
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"After 13 years of life on the half shell in Hollywood, I have made a trip where I wasn't a tourist."
Edgar Bergen
"After 13 years of life on the half shell in Hollywood, I have made a trip where I wasn't a tourist."
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"A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory."
Whittaker Chambers
"A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory."
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"I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life."
Richard Attenborough
"I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life."
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"The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm."
Josh Billings
"The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm."
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"Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule."
Samuel Butler
"Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule."
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"Well, I'm at some kind of crossroads in my life and I don't know which way to take. It's not about money, I mean, because I'm established enough now as a writer to get a reasonable advance if I wanted to do fiction."
Helen Garner
"Well, I'm at some kind of crossroads in my life and I don't know which way to take. It's not about money, I mean, because I'm established enough now as a writer to get a reasonable advance if I wanted to do fiction."
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"A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares."
Elbert Hubbard
"A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares."
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"If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be."
Cesare Pavese
"If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be."
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"Here I am I am tired I am tired of running of having to carry my life like it was a basket of eggs."
William Faulkner
"Here I am I am tired I am tired of running of having to carry my life like it was a basket of eggs."
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"Comics are really my life blood in a lot of respects."
Bill Sienkiewicz
"Comics are really my life blood in a lot of respects."
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"Drugs have played no significant factor in my life."
Dennis Brown
"Drugs have played no significant factor in my life."
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"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor."
Vince Lombardi
"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor."
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"But our waking life, and our growing years, were for the most part spent in the kitchen, and until we married, or ran away, it was the common room we shared."
Laurie Lee
"But our waking life, and our growing years, were for the most part spent in the kitchen, and until we married, or ran away, it was the common room we shared."
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"I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 96% how I react to it."
Scipio Africanus
"I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 96% how I react to it."
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"The most profound, tangible influence in my life has been my wife, Monique. I don't know that I would even be alive were it not for her, and I certainly would not be the person that I am today."
Edgar Winter
"The most profound, tangible influence in my life has been my wife, Monique. I don't know that I would even be alive were it not for her, and I certainly would not be the person that I am today."
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"In life there are perfect moments. You cannot plan them - the very act interferes with the laws of the universe - but you must be ready to recognise them when they come."
Chloe Thurlow
"In life there are perfect moments. You cannot plan them - the very act interferes with the laws of the universe - but you must be ready to recognise them when they come."
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"The person lives twice who lives the first life well."
Robert Herrick
"The person lives twice who lives the first life well."
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"My Cape women are generally true to type - big hearted, motherly women who love the sea. My other characters, with the exception of the Portuguese, who I occasionally mention as Cape dwellers, are obviously drawn from the city types one sees in everyday life."
Joseph C. Lincoln
"My Cape women are generally true to type - big hearted, motherly women who love the sea. My other characters, with the exception of the Portuguese, who I occasionally mention as Cape dwellers, are obviously drawn from the city types one sees in everyday life."
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"Life is a stranger's sojourn a night at an inn."
Marcus Aurelius
"Life is a stranger's sojourn a night at an inn."
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"Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another."
Ernest Hemingway
"Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another."
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"Above our life we love a steadfast friend."
Christopher Marlowe
"Above our life we love a steadfast friend."
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"I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I've known in my life. That's just the truth."
David Geffen
"I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I've known in my life. That's just the truth."
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"Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead."
Morihei Ueshiba
"Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead."
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"I have a nervous breakdown in the film and in one scene I get to stand at the top of the stairs waving an empty sherry bottle which is, of course, a typical scene from my daily life, so isn't much of a stretch."
Emma Thompson
"I have a nervous breakdown in the film and in one scene I get to stand at the top of the stairs waving an empty sherry bottle which is, of course, a typical scene from my daily life, so isn't much of a stretch."
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"I try to make my life about service, and hope that one day we can all 'see' a little better because God is with everyone and everywhere."
Russell Simmons
"I try to make my life about service, and hope that one day we can all 'see' a little better because God is with everyone and everywhere."
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"Daily life took as much as she had. The future was sunset; the past something to leave behind. And if it didn't stay behind, well, you might have to stomp it out."
Toni Morrison
"Daily life took as much as she had. The future was sunset; the past something to leave behind. And if it didn't stay behind, well, you might have to stomp it out."
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"Actors who are lovers in real life are often incapable if playing the part of lovers to an audience. It is equally true that sympathy between actors who are not lovers may create a temporary emotion that is perfectly sincere."
Ivor Novello
"Actors who are lovers in real life are often incapable if playing the part of lovers to an audience. It is equally true that sympathy between actors who are not lovers may create a temporary emotion that is perfectly sincere."
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"You promote your films; it's part of your job. You do the magazine covers and stuff, and then I try to live a really normal life. I definitely don't try to make it into any more craziness than it is."
Kate Bosworth
"You promote your films; it's part of your job. You do the magazine covers and stuff, and then I try to live a really normal life. I definitely don't try to make it into any more craziness than it is."
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"I never was ruined but twice - once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I gained one."
Voltaire
"I never was ruined but twice - once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I gained one."
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"This is the strangest life I've ever known."
Jim Morrison
"This is the strangest life I've ever known."
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"It makes it hard to get over a certain period of your life when you are constantly revisiting it every night."
Daniel Johns
"It makes it hard to get over a certain period of your life when you are constantly revisiting it every night."
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