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"I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case with pop songs. I see them as a body of work. Life should be breathed into them."
Sting
"I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case with pop songs. I see them as a body of work. Life should be breathed into them."
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"Although Salinger had long since cut me out of his life completely and made it plain that he had nothing but contempt for me, the thought of becoming the object of his wrath was more than I felt ready to take on."
Joyce Maynard
"Although Salinger had long since cut me out of his life completely and made it plain that he had nothing but contempt for me, the thought of becoming the object of his wrath was more than I felt ready to take on."
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"I'm pro-life. I'll do all I can to see every baby is created with a future and potential. The legislature should do all it can to protect human life."
Sarah Palin
"I'm pro-life. I'll do all I can to see every baby is created with a future and potential. The legislature should do all it can to protect human life."
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"Lifes like a painters palette, just when you've got everything worked out the colours change."
Benny Bellamacina
"Lifes like a painters palette, just when you've got everything worked out the colours change."
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"All my pupils are the creme de la creme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life."
Muriel Spark
"All my pupils are the creme de la creme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life."
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"He that commends me to mine own contentCommends me to the thing I cannot get.I to the world am like a drop of waterThat in the ocean seeks another drop,Who, falling there to find his fellow forth,Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself:So I, to find a mother and a brother,In quest of them, unhappy, lose myself."
William Shakespeare
"He that commends me to mine own contentCommends me to the thing I cannot get.I to the world am like a drop of waterThat in the ocean seeks another drop,Who, falling there to find his fellow forth,Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself:So I, to find a mother and a brother,In quest of them, unhappy, lose myself."
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"Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often."
Samuel Butler
"Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often."
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"Probably I'm boring, but I have a reason about it and I'm doing behind this, so take it, like it's a fake face."
Deyth Banger
"Probably I'm boring, but I have a reason about it and I'm doing behind this, so take it, like it's a fake face."
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"Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time."
Victor Hugo
"Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time."
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"Common sense is calculation applied to life."
Henri Frederic Amiel
"Common sense is calculation applied to life."
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"The magic of life hides in the dusty corners of chaos and you must sweep out the cobwebs of confusion before you reach the calm & euphorically moments; your soul believed, existed all along."
Nikki Rowe
"The magic of life hides in the dusty corners of chaos and you must sweep out the cobwebs of confusion before you reach the calm & euphorically moments; your soul believed, existed all along."
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"It is your responsibility to pull yourself up if you find yourself at the bottom, instead of waiting around and expecting others to come to your rescue. Moreover, most people already have their own burdens to carry."
Edmond Mbiaka
"It is your responsibility to pull yourself up if you find yourself at the bottom, instead of waiting around and expecting others to come to your rescue. Moreover, most people already have their own burdens to carry."
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"Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life."
Wilma Rudolph
"Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life."
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"Petronius says that 'Mundus vult decipi - The world wants to be deceived.' That is very true, otherwise there wouldn't exist any religion!"
Mehmet Murat ildan
"Petronius says that 'Mundus vult decipi - The world wants to be deceived.' That is very true, otherwise there wouldn't exist any religion!"
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"All my life I wanted to go to bed with an American, and now I had, and I'm beginning to see why people don't do it more often."
Nick Hornby
"All my life I wanted to go to bed with an American, and now I had, and I'm beginning to see why people don't do it more often."
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"Everything I have in life comes from Knots Landing."
Ted Shackelford
"Everything I have in life comes from Knots Landing."
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"Look for joy in your life; it's not always easy to find."
Charles Kuralt
"Look for joy in your life; it's not always easy to find."
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"I am probably the most selfish man you will ever meet in your life. No one gets the satisfaction or the joy that I get out of seeing kids realize there is hope."
Jerry Lewis
"I am probably the most selfish man you will ever meet in your life. No one gets the satisfaction or the joy that I get out of seeing kids realize there is hope."
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"He lives most life whoever breathes most air."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"He lives most life whoever breathes most air."
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"The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't."
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
"The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't."
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"I think doing something of your life is something that you've got deep inside, whether it's to, whether you want to be an astronaut or a, whether you want to do science, or whether you want to be a movie star, or whatever."
Philippe Perrin
"I think doing something of your life is something that you've got deep inside, whether it's to, whether you want to be an astronaut or a, whether you want to do science, or whether you want to be a movie star, or whatever."
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"Growth is the only evidence of life."
John Henry Newman
"Growth is the only evidence of life."
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"Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life."
William Ellery Channing
"Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life."
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"So many people want to die when all they need is to start living."
Anonymous
"So many people want to die when all they need is to start living."
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"I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other."
Sean O'Casey
"I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other."
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"I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really."
Marilyn Monroe
"I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really."
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"The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact."
Julie Burchill
"The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact."
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"I knew it was going to be the most extraordinary thing in my life, but how powerful it is, you can never know until you have a baby."
Celine Dion
"I knew it was going to be the most extraordinary thing in my life, but how powerful it is, you can never know until you have a baby."
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"No single discovery from any of these fields denotes proof of evolution, but together they reveal that life evolved in a certain sequence by a particular process."
Michael Shermer
"No single discovery from any of these fields denotes proof of evolution, but together they reveal that life evolved in a certain sequence by a particular process."
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"The band was rejuvenated by that wonderful day. It breathed new life into us."
John Deacon
"The band was rejuvenated by that wonderful day. It breathed new life into us."
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"I didn't choose the fact that I was gay, but I did choose whether to live my life as a gay woman-that was the terrifying thing for me. Especially being a gay actress."
Portia de Rossi
"I didn't choose the fact that I was gay, but I did choose whether to live my life as a gay woman-that was the terrifying thing for me. Especially being a gay actress."
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"Academics often discount the value of top-rated sports programs in helping to develop a campus life and in contributing to the overall success of a college or university. Like it or not, the sports programs a college or university has are the front page of that university."
James E. Rogers
"Academics often discount the value of top-rated sports programs in helping to develop a campus life and in contributing to the overall success of a college or university. Like it or not, the sports programs a college or university has are the front page of that university."
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"Life itself is the proper binge."
Julia Child
"Life itself is the proper binge."
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"Embryonic stem cell research will prolong life, improve life and give hope for life to millions of people."
Jim Ramstad
"Embryonic stem cell research will prolong life, improve life and give hope for life to millions of people."
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"I wanted to make a movie, because the whole life of the movies appealed to me. You work hard for three or four months, then you don't work at all for a couple of months."
Gregory Hines
"I wanted to make a movie, because the whole life of the movies appealed to me. You work hard for three or four months, then you don't work at all for a couple of months."
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"I live a perfectly happy and comfortable life in Blair's Britain, but I can't work up much affection for the culture we've created for ourselves: it's too cynical, too knowing, too ironic, too empty of real value and meaning."
Jonathan Coe
"I live a perfectly happy and comfortable life in Blair's Britain, but I can't work up much affection for the culture we've created for ourselves: it's too cynical, too knowing, too ironic, too empty of real value and meaning."
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"My whole life was service to people and the Fatherland."
Wilhelm Frick
"My whole life was service to people and the Fatherland."
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"Governments must give to all those who have hit life's hurdles the chance to rebuild and have a future."
Pauline Hanson
"Governments must give to all those who have hit life's hurdles the chance to rebuild and have a future."
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"The pure air and dazzling snow belong to things beyond the reach of all personal feeling, almost beyond the reach of life. Yet such things are a part of our life, neither the least noble nor the most terrible."
Frederick Soddy
"The pure air and dazzling snow belong to things beyond the reach of all personal feeling, almost beyond the reach of life. Yet such things are a part of our life, neither the least noble nor the most terrible."
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"We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life."
Ella Maillart
"We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life."
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"Perspective is the most important thing to have in life."
Lauren Graham
"Perspective is the most important thing to have in life."
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"Many activities and team play participation will give you a training that will prove invaluable later on in life."
Walter Annenberg
"Many activities and team play participation will give you a training that will prove invaluable later on in life."
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"An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet."
James Dean
"An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet."
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"Well, I've been a fan of videogames all my life."
Michael Strahan
"Well, I've been a fan of videogames all my life."
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"There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for."
Saul Bellow
"There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for."
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"Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life."
Alec Guinness
"Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life."
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"May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters."
May Sarton
"May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters."
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"But I don't think that sculpture belongs in everyday life like a table does, or like a chair."
Anthony Caro
"But I don't think that sculpture belongs in everyday life like a table does, or like a chair."
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"The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal."
Aleister Crowley
"The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal."
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"These things have a life of there own and never existed when I was growing up certainly worrying when one would get made. It's kind of amazing how that one movie kept living through all these years."
Stockard Channing
"These things have a life of there own and never existed when I was growing up certainly worrying when one would get made. It's kind of amazing how that one movie kept living through all these years."
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