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"But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder."
Ritchie Blackmore
"But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder."
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"You don't say to a university professor who is immersed in a particular subject that they should get a life. They are encouraged to enjoy their subject and to pass it on."
Magnus Magnusson
"You don't say to a university professor who is immersed in a particular subject that they should get a life. They are encouraged to enjoy their subject and to pass it on."
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"However dark and profitless, however painful and weary, existence may have become, life is not done, and our Christian character is not won, so long as God has anything left for us to suffer, or anything left for us to do."
Frederick Robertson
"However dark and profitless, however painful and weary, existence may have become, life is not done, and our Christian character is not won, so long as God has anything left for us to suffer, or anything left for us to do."
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"Country Music is great music because it really comes from real life experiences. It is such a great haven for reality."
Bryan White
"Country Music is great music because it really comes from real life experiences. It is such a great haven for reality."
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"The government's position was that we have frigates that have got a useful life until 2006. There is no necessity for us to make final decisions until 2002."
Jenny Shipley
"The government's position was that we have frigates that have got a useful life until 2006. There is no necessity for us to make final decisions until 2002."
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"Well, I think that people are smart enough to understand the difference between a movie and real life."
Nick Cassavetes
"Well, I think that people are smart enough to understand the difference between a movie and real life."
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"Four years in the White House and two presidential campaigns is an awful long time. In politics, every year in the White House is like dog years, six years off your life."
George Stephanopoulos
"Four years in the White House and two presidential campaigns is an awful long time. In politics, every year in the White House is like dog years, six years off your life."
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"Some people in LA are addicted. They have to be here. My personal life is stronger than my professional life, in terms of priorities."
Debi Mazar
"Some people in LA are addicted. They have to be here. My personal life is stronger than my professional life, in terms of priorities."
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"Stem cell research must be carried out in an ethical manner in a way that respects the sanctity of human life."
John Boehner
"Stem cell research must be carried out in an ethical manner in a way that respects the sanctity of human life."
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"Life magazine ran a page featuring me and three other girls that was clearly the precursor of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues."
Esther Williams
"Life magazine ran a page featuring me and three other girls that was clearly the precursor of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues."
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"Even a blind man could see she is beautiful."
Ken Poirot
"Even a blind man could see she is beautiful."
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"I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road."
Pat Buckley
"I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road."
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"I would alter nothing of the journey made for it is in this road travelled that the sweetest of lessons are learnt."
Truth Devour
"I would alter nothing of the journey made for it is in this road travelled that the sweetest of lessons are learnt."
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"My kids are young and my life with them is really stimulating and really full and significant."
Jodie Foster
"My kids are young and my life with them is really stimulating and really full and significant."
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"When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as the savior, it changes your heart."
George W. Bush
"When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as the savior, it changes your heart."
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"I don't think we realise just how fast we go until you stop for a minute and realise just how loud and how hectic your life is, and how easily distracted you can get."
Meg Ryan
"I don't think we realise just how fast we go until you stop for a minute and realise just how loud and how hectic your life is, and how easily distracted you can get."
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"The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street."
Robert Doisneau
"The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street."
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"I've been in a hurry all my life. I've been in a hurry to succeed, and in a hurry to prove myself."
Henry Kravis
"I've been in a hurry all my life. I've been in a hurry to succeed, and in a hurry to prove myself."
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"Life was like that- there would always be something scratching at the door. And whatever was scratching would just scratch and scratch until you opened the door."
Benjamin Alire Saenz
"Life was like that- there would always be something scratching at the door. And whatever was scratching would just scratch and scratch until you opened the door."
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"Michelle Obama was asked when life begins. According to her it's when she and Barack take over the White House."
Evan Sayet
"Michelle Obama was asked when life begins. According to her it's when she and Barack take over the White House."
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"She'd never been one to think in terms of years, anyway. A person was what they were, and many a man at forty was sixty in his ways and many another was twenty and would never grow past it."
Louis L'Amour
"She'd never been one to think in terms of years, anyway. A person was what they were, and many a man at forty was sixty in his ways and many another was twenty and would never grow past it."
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"Being a mom's so empowering and incredible. I'm one of those people who believes that life brings things to you at a certain time for a certain reason, and if you just go with it, that's where the best moments come from."
Ashlee Simpson
"Being a mom's so empowering and incredible. I'm one of those people who believes that life brings things to you at a certain time for a certain reason, and if you just go with it, that's where the best moments come from."
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"Joan organizes our social life, and on weekends I follow her around."
Robert B. Parker
"Joan organizes our social life, and on weekends I follow her around."
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"Onstage I do all the stuff I'd never do in real life, like lashing out at people who make me mad or freaking out in a long bank lineup. Performing allows me to fulfill all the sicko fantasies I've ever had."
Colin Mochrie
"Onstage I do all the stuff I'd never do in real life, like lashing out at people who make me mad or freaking out in a long bank lineup. Performing allows me to fulfill all the sicko fantasies I've ever had."
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"Sex is the gateway to life."
Frank Harris
"Sex is the gateway to life."
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"I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress."
Harriet Ann Jacobs
"I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress."
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"Well, because music is my life and music is not work for me."
Gunther Schuller
"Well, because music is my life and music is not work for me."
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"A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it."
Minor White
"A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it."
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"I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say; I'll have used up all my characters, and then I'll be free to get on with my real life."
Anne Tyler
"I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say; I'll have used up all my characters, and then I'll be free to get on with my real life."
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"Don't ignore the past, but deal with it, on your own pace. Once you deal with it, you are free of it; and you are free to embrace your life and be a happy loving person because if you don't, the past will come back to haunt and keep coming back to haunt you."
Boris Kodjoe
"Don't ignore the past, but deal with it, on your own pace. Once you deal with it, you are free of it; and you are free to embrace your life and be a happy loving person because if you don't, the past will come back to haunt and keep coming back to haunt you."
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"When contrasted with the much longer time that life has been present, the course of Christianity thus far is but a brief moment."
Kenneth Scott Latourette
"When contrasted with the much longer time that life has been present, the course of Christianity thus far is but a brief moment."
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"For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying."
Doris Lessing
"For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying."
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"Well I travelled quite a lot in the east, and one of the things that impressed me greatly was the buddhist notion of the continuity of things, the wheel of life which is what we're talking about, the ever turning wheel."
Morris West
"Well I travelled quite a lot in the east, and one of the things that impressed me greatly was the buddhist notion of the continuity of things, the wheel of life which is what we're talking about, the ever turning wheel."
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"There's so much talk about the drug generation and songs about drugs. That's stupid. They aren't songs about drugs; they're about life."
Cass Elliot
"There's so much talk about the drug generation and songs about drugs. That's stupid. They aren't songs about drugs; they're about 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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"We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life."
Steve Jobs
"We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life."
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"Because sometimes there are problems bigger than this week's end of the world and sometimes you just have to find the extraordinary in your ordinary life."
Patrick Ness
"Because sometimes there are problems bigger than this week's end of the world and sometimes you just have to find the extraordinary in your ordinary life."
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"It makes me sad when I find sisters who aren't joyful. They might smile, but with just a smile they could be flight attendants!"
Pope Francis
"It makes me sad when I find sisters who aren't joyful. They might smile, but with just a smile they could be flight attendants!"
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"Sometimes I wish that there were a way to let people know that just because I live in a world without rules, and in a life that is lawless, doesn't mean that it doesn't hurt so bad the morning after."
Elizabeth Wurtzel
"Sometimes I wish that there were a way to let people know that just because I live in a world without rules, and in a life that is lawless, doesn't mean that it doesn't hurt so bad the morning after."
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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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"When we're young, everyone over the age of thirty looks middle-aged, everyone over fifty antique. And time, as it goes by, confirms that we weren't that wrong. Those little age differentials, so crucial and so gross when we are young erode. We end up all belonging to the same category, that of the non-young. I've never much minded this myself."
Julian Barnes
"When we're young, everyone over the age of thirty looks middle-aged, everyone over fifty antique. And time, as it goes by, confirms that we weren't that wrong. Those little age differentials, so crucial and so gross when we are young erode. We end up all belonging to the same category, that of the non-young. I've never much minded this myself."
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"I can't help but think that if she was going to kill herself, she might as well have done it earlier. Perhaps when I was a toddler. Or better yet, an infant. It certainly would have made my life easier. I asked my uncle Hugh (who is not really my uncle, but he is married to the stepsister of my current mother's brother's wife and he lives quite closeand he's a vicar) if I would be going to hell for such a thought. He said no, that frankly, it made a lot of sense to him. I do think I prefer his parish to my own."
Julia Quinn
"I can't help but think that if she was going to kill herself, she might as well have done it earlier. Perhaps when I was a toddler. Or better yet, an infant. It certainly would have made my life easier. I asked my uncle Hugh (who is not really my uncle, but he is married to the stepsister of my current mother's brother's wife and he lives quite closeand he's a vicar) if I would be going to hell for such a thought. He said no, that frankly, it made a lot of sense to him. I do think I prefer his parish to my own."
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"I don't get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life I would have an excuse. But right now there's no rehab for stupidity."
Chris Rock
"I don't get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life I would have an excuse. But right now there's no rehab for stupidity."
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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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"So, not only am I panicking over the weekend if I need to know my lines, but also if can I get the kids to the zoo. Can I even go to church? I was asking for certain things that would allow me to plan my life a little better."
Hunter Tylo
"So, not only am I panicking over the weekend if I need to know my lines, but also if can I get the kids to the zoo. Can I even go to church? I was asking for certain things that would allow me to plan my life a little better."
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"I think one's sexuality can be the center of life, and coming out and discovering your sexuality is something that really can define your existence."
Mia Kirshner
"I think one's sexuality can be the center of life, and coming out and discovering your sexuality is something that really can define your existence."
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"Madam Speaker, I have spent more than half my life as a member of the Resources Committee. In that time I have supported numerous wilderness designations. In fact, I cannot recall ever opposing a wilderness bill."
Nick Rahall
"Madam Speaker, I have spent more than half my life as a member of the Resources Committee. In that time I have supported numerous wilderness designations. In fact, I cannot recall ever opposing a wilderness bill."
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"The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism."
Arthur Miller
"The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism."
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"And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine years, you look very deeply at a situation, unlike in real life when we just kind of snap something out."
Sandra Cisneros
"And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine years, you look very deeply at a situation, unlike in real life when we just kind of snap something out."
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"My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?"
Fiona Apple
"My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?"
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