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"I would say a lot of the emotion in what I do is a sort of a thankfulness for those energies being around, because there's been points in my life when they weren't around, and it's a real sort of miserable existence."
John Frusciante
"I would say a lot of the emotion in what I do is a sort of a thankfulness for those energies being around, because there's been points in my life when they weren't around, and it's a real sort of miserable existence."
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"There is no sound more annoying than the chatter of a child, and none more sad than the silence they leave when they are gone."
Mark Lawrence
"There is no sound more annoying than the chatter of a child, and none more sad than the silence they leave when they are gone."
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"The mountain music... is compelling music in its own right, harking back to a time when music was a part of everyday life and not something performed by celebrities."
Ethan Coen
"The mountain music... is compelling music in its own right, harking back to a time when music was a part of everyday life and not something performed by celebrities."
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"There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it."
Walter Savage Landor
"There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it."
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"There are endings. There are beginnings. Sometimes they coincide, with the ending of one thing marking the beginning of another. But sometimes there is simply a long space after an ending, a time when it seems everything else has ended and nothing else can ever begin."
Robin Hobb
"There are endings. There are beginnings. Sometimes they coincide, with the ending of one thing marking the beginning of another. But sometimes there is simply a long space after an ending, a time when it seems everything else has ended and nothing else can ever begin."
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"Abraham Lincoln because he was a man filled with great compassion who believed that all men are created free and equal, and was not afraid to stand on that platform. The way Lincoln lived his life has served me well in mine."
Sidney Sheldon
"Abraham Lincoln because he was a man filled with great compassion who believed that all men are created free and equal, and was not afraid to stand on that platform. The way Lincoln lived his life has served me well in mine."
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"Anybody who's ever gone through a hard time - any outsider's perception, no matter how much information they're given, they have no idea what the person's life is like."
Amy Grant
"Anybody who's ever gone through a hard time - any outsider's perception, no matter how much information they're given, they have no idea what the person's life is like."
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"When I was pregnant, I felt filled with life, and I felt really happy. I ate well, and I slept well. I felt much more useful than I'd ever felt before."
Suzanne Vega
"When I was pregnant, I felt filled with life, and I felt really happy. I ate well, and I slept well. I felt much more useful than I'd ever felt before."
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"You rush a miracle worker, you get lousy miracles!"
Jim Butcher
"You rush a miracle worker, you get lousy miracles!"
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"It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life."
Adam Clarke
"It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life."
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"There are three things we cry about in life, things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent."
Doug Coupland
"There are three things we cry about in life, things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent."
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"The only still center of my life is Macbeth. To go back to doing this bloody, crazed, insane mass-murderer is a huge relief after trying to get my cell phone replaced."
Patrick Stewart
"The only still center of my life is Macbeth. To go back to doing this bloody, crazed, insane mass-murderer is a huge relief after trying to get my cell phone replaced."
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"My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men."
Sandra Cisneros
"My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men."
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"Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui."
Emile M. Cioran
"Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui."
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"Our house was littered with books- in the kitchen, under the beds, stuck between the couch pillows--far too many for her the ever finish. I suppose I thought if my grandmother kept up her interests, she wouldn't die; she'd have to stay around to finish the books she was so fond of. "I've got to get to the bottom of this one," she'd say, as if a book were no different from a pond or a lake. I thought she'd go on reading forever but it didn't work out that way."
Alice Hoffman
"Our house was littered with books- in the kitchen, under the beds, stuck between the couch pillows--far too many for her the ever finish. I suppose I thought if my grandmother kept up her interests, she wouldn't die; she'd have to stay around to finish the books she was so fond of. "I've got to get to the bottom of this one," she'd say, as if a book were no different from a pond or a lake. I thought she'd go on reading forever but it didn't work out that way."
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"Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us."
Alan Cohen
"Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us."
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"To have a public life, you still have the right to a private life."
Catherine Deneuve
"To have a public life, you still have the right to a private life."
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"Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise."
Phillips Brooks
"Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise."
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"The new spirituality will also base itself on a third very large spiritual understanding, which is that life is eternal. Most religious people claim to believe that, but very few people actually live as if that were true."
Neale Donald Walsch
"The new spirituality will also base itself on a third very large spiritual understanding, which is that life is eternal. Most religious people claim to believe that, but very few people actually live as if that were true."
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"Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself."
Walter Anderson
"Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself."
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"But, of course, she didn't mean that she was going to retire from public life and only when the Queen removed her HRH some years later did she actually drop a hundred charities and just kept five."
Anthony Holden
"But, of course, she didn't mean that she was going to retire from public life and only when the Queen removed her HRH some years later did she actually drop a hundred charities and just kept five."
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"Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you."
Wayne Dyer
"Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you."
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"When I recall my own path of life I cannot but speak of the violence, hatred and lies. A lesson drawn from such experiences, however, was that we can effectively oppose violence only if we ourselves do not resort to it."
Lech Walesa
"When I recall my own path of life I cannot but speak of the violence, hatred and lies. A lesson drawn from such experiences, however, was that we can effectively oppose violence only if we ourselves do not resort to it."
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"He was warm, partly because he had on many layers, and partly because boys whoa re part wolf and part wind do not get cold."
Dave Eggers
"He was warm, partly because he had on many layers, and partly because boys whoa re part wolf and part wind do not get cold."
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"I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun."
Roland Barthes
"I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun."
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"Unwittingly, I have sailed through my entire life, so far, with neither direction nor destination.I had a vague instinct to reach dry land every once in a while for supplies, but never anything more than that."
Chris Murray
"Unwittingly, I have sailed through my entire life, so far, with neither direction nor destination.I had a vague instinct to reach dry land every once in a while for supplies, but never anything more than that."
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"A day came when all the rebel in me knew itself beaten, and then my whole nature bowed down in humble resignation in the dust. And then I saw... I saw that he was as incomparable in beauty as he was in terror. I was saved, I was rescued."
Rabindranath Tagore
"A day came when all the rebel in me knew itself beaten, and then my whole nature bowed down in humble resignation in the dust. And then I saw... I saw that he was as incomparable in beauty as he was in terror. I was saved, I was rescued."
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"So instead of beating myself up for being fat, I think it's a miracle that I laugh every day and walk through my life with pride, because our culture is unrelenting when it comes to large people."
Camryn Manheim
"So instead of beating myself up for being fat, I think it's a miracle that I laugh every day and walk through my life with pride, because our culture is unrelenting when it comes to large people."
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"Nothing is permanent. The only thing any of us have in common is the inevitable."
Colleen Hoover
"Nothing is permanent. The only thing any of us have in common is the inevitable."
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"I will always be the way I was a couple years ago before anything happened. And that's to my parents' credit, my amazing parents who have been around me my whole life and raised me right. I'm very happy with what has happened so far."
Kaley Cuoco
"I will always be the way I was a couple years ago before anything happened. And that's to my parents' credit, my amazing parents who have been around me my whole life and raised me right. I'm very happy with what has happened so far."
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"When I gave my life to the Lord, I thought I'd be a preacher."
Tim LaHaye
"When I gave my life to the Lord, I thought I'd be a preacher."
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"I think that by fearing death, you are actually fearing life because it is a part of life. People are born and people die."
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
"I think that by fearing death, you are actually fearing life because it is a part of life. People are born and people die."
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"When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own."
Jackson Pollock
"When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own."
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"I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions."
Taylor Caldwell
"I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions."
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"It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process."
Max Eastman
"It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process."
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"My life was on the line here and my career and everything I worked for, it was hanging by a thread."
Rafael Palmeiro
"My life was on the line here and my career and everything I worked for, it was hanging by a thread."
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"How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question."
Ted Danson
"How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question."
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"I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it."
Marlo Thomas
"I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it."
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"The difficulty of writing a good theatre play set in new reality was even greater given that the level of similitude to life that is allowed in a film would not work on the stage."
Andrzej Wajda
"The difficulty of writing a good theatre play set in new reality was even greater given that the level of similitude to life that is allowed in a film would not work on the stage."
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"Every interaction with another is an opportunity to serve."
Chris Matakas
"Every interaction with another is an opportunity to serve."
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"I have a great family, I live an amazing life."
John Oates
"I have a great family, I live an amazing life."
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"My whole life is geared to play guitar. I play what I want when I want and I hope the listener gets as much pleasure listening to the music as I get playing it."
Jim Sullivan
"My whole life is geared to play guitar. I play what I want when I want and I hope the listener gets as much pleasure listening to the music as I get playing it."
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"Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance."
William Ralph Inge
"Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance."
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"Your life is lived in a day, so focus on living one good day by successfully designing, creating and living that good day and duplicating it."
Mensah Oteh
"Your life is lived in a day, so focus on living one good day by successfully designing, creating and living that good day and duplicating it."
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"I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that."
Lauren Bacall
"I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that."
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"Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive."
Sidney Hook
"Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive."
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"I start to feel like I can't maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through. And I wish I knew what was wrong. Maybe something about how stupid my whole life is."
Elizabeth Wurtzel
"I start to feel like I can't maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through. And I wish I knew what was wrong. Maybe something about how stupid my whole life is."
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"I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds."
Joan Rivers
"I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds."
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"I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life."
Lalu Prasad Yadav
"I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life."
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"When I go to farms or little towns, I am always surprised at the discontent I find. And New York, too often, has looked across the sea toward Europe. And all of us who turn our eyes away from what we have are missing life."
Norman Rockwell
"When I go to farms or little towns, I am always surprised at the discontent I find. And New York, too often, has looked across the sea toward Europe. And all of us who turn our eyes away from what we have are missing life."
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