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"If I'm going away for longer than a week I take a suitcase and check it in but I'm good at packing light and quick - years of modelling, travelling and living out of a suitcase has trained me well."
Lisa Snowdon
"If I'm going away for longer than a week I take a suitcase and check it in but I'm good at packing light and quick - years of modelling, travelling and living out of a suitcase has trained me well."
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"There is strong shadow where there is much light."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"There is strong shadow where there is much light."
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"Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman."
Louis D. Brandeis
"Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman."
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"The speed of light sucks."
John Carmack
"The speed of light sucks."
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"I always wanted to get married with just candles! I think candlelight is the most beautiful light there is and there's something very spiritual about it."
Nicole Kidman
"I always wanted to get married with just candles! I think candlelight is the most beautiful light there is and there's something very spiritual about it."
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"And if you dont believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light."
Chris Cornell
"And if you dont believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light."
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"When walking through the "valley of shadows," remember, a shadow is cast by a Light."
Austin O'Malley
"When walking through the "valley of shadows," remember, a shadow is cast by a Light."
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"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in."
Leonard Cohen
"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in."
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"By lighting another's candle you brighten your own."
Matshona Dhliwayo
"By lighting another's candle you brighten your own."
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"I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light."
Ian Hart
"I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light."
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"Soon afterwards I studied the inversion of sugar in the light of these considerations and immediately found that this classical reaction, too, was determined quantitatively by the same property of the acids, as was of course to be expected from the previous results."
Wilhelm Ostwald
"Soon afterwards I studied the inversion of sugar in the light of these considerations and immediately found that this classical reaction, too, was determined quantitatively by the same property of the acids, as was of course to be expected from the previous results."
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"I'm just looking for that moment to drop my Jedi knickers and pull out my real light saber."
Ewan McGregor
"I'm just looking for that moment to drop my Jedi knickers and pull out my real light saber."
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"It is very possible that the majority of a nation can choose darkness! Such fool nations learn the beauty of light through the unbearable and inconceivable pains!"
Mehmet Murat ildan
"It is very possible that the majority of a nation can choose darkness! Such fool nations learn the beauty of light through the unbearable and inconceivable pains!"
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"An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?"
Rene Descartes
"An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?"
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"Don't fight the darkness, bring in the light."
Osho
"Don't fight the darkness, bring in the light."
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"The task is to investigate speech sounds in relation to the meanings with which they are invested, i.e., sounds viewed as signifiers, and above all to throw light on the structure of the relation between sounds and meaning."
Roman Jakobson
"The task is to investigate speech sounds in relation to the meanings with which they are invested, i.e., sounds viewed as signifiers, and above all to throw light on the structure of the relation between sounds and meaning."
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"I had not yet gotten into the world of light. But I felt as one who, standing outside, could knock against the wall and hear an answering knock from within."
Simon Newcomb
"I had not yet gotten into the world of light. But I felt as one who, standing outside, could knock against the wall and hear an answering knock from within."
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"Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself."
Pythagoras
"Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself."
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"Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow."
Toru Takemitsu
"Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow."
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"Ava Gardner was the most beautiful woman in the world, and it's wonderful that she didn't cut up her face. She addressed aging by picking up her chin and receiving the light in a better way. And she looked like a woman. She never tried to look like a girl."
Sharon Stone
"Ava Gardner was the most beautiful woman in the world, and it's wonderful that she didn't cut up her face. She addressed aging by picking up her chin and receiving the light in a better way. And she looked like a woman. She never tried to look like a girl."
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"Be as bright as the sun then spread your light all over the world."
Debasish Mridha
"Be as bright as the sun then spread your light all over the world."
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"Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in."
Alan Alda
"Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in."
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"We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us."
Melinda Gates
"We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us."
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"I left Guiding Light so many times, they ran out of champagne."
Michael Zaslow
"I left Guiding Light so many times, they ran out of champagne."
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"So the thing that's beautiful about the Rolleiflex is that I open the camera up from the top and put my face in and that the camera's all about composition and all about light."
Matthew Modine
"So the thing that's beautiful about the Rolleiflex is that I open the camera up from the top and put my face in and that the camera's all about composition and all about light."
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"When I came to New York and I opened the window of the thirty-fifth-floor apartment, there's light pollution and fog, and I couldn't see my star. So I drew it on my wrist with a pen, but it kept washing away. Then I went to a tattoo parlor on Second Avenue and had it done."
Gisele Bundchen
"When I came to New York and I opened the window of the thirty-fifth-floor apartment, there's light pollution and fog, and I couldn't see my star. So I drew it on my wrist with a pen, but it kept washing away. Then I went to a tattoo parlor on Second Avenue and had it done."
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"In like a dimwit, out like a light."
Walt Kelly
"In like a dimwit, out like a light."
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"I was more of a light opera singer, not really much of a lounge singer."
Melinda Clarke
"I was more of a light opera singer, not really much of a lounge singer."
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"Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light."
Damon Wayans
"Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light."
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"Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge."
Don Henley
"Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge."
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"The three years following the release of See The Light were a whirlwind."
Jeff Healey
"The three years following the release of See The Light were a whirlwind."
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"An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence."
Letitia Landon
"An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence."
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"The dark is light enough."
Christopher Fry
"The dark is light enough."
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"If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold."
Louis D. Brandeis
"If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold."
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"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass."
Anton Chekhov
"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass."
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"There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures."
James Thurber
"There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures."
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"I am convinced that it is the light and the way."
George C. Williams
"I am convinced that it is the light and the way."
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"I'll put candles all over the room, then light then, and get to it. I call it my 'vibe in a bag.'"
Jody Watley
"I'll put candles all over the room, then light then, and get to it. I call it my 'vibe in a bag.'"
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"They had to start shaving my chin when I was 12 years old because light started to pick it up."
Jackie Cooper
"They had to start shaving my chin when I was 12 years old because light started to pick it up."
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"However light-hearted you try to be about it, the loss of youth, and everything that goes with it, is quite a trauma."
Julian Clary
"However light-hearted you try to be about it, the loss of youth, and everything that goes with it, is quite a trauma."
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"Nobody's interested in sweetness and light."
Hedda Hopper
"Nobody's interested in sweetness and light."
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"You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in."
Arlo Guthrie
"You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in."
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"Our sexual lives are maintained by the shadow side and the light side, so the more we can understand and embrace enlightenment, the less need there is for chemical enhancement."
Kyan Douglas
"Our sexual lives are maintained by the shadow side and the light side, so the more we can understand and embrace enlightenment, the less need there is for chemical enhancement."
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"There's more to light than the opposite of dark."
Ric Ocasek
"There's more to light than the opposite of dark."
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"I sometimes use a lot of light greens and greys when I feel there is sadness in the painting."
Robert Ryan
"I sometimes use a lot of light greens and greys when I feel there is sadness in the painting."
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"When the late Bishop was appointed, about thirty-two years ago, to diffuse the light of the Gospel through this extensive portion of His Majesty's dominions, it was even a greater spiritual, than a natural wilderness."
John Strachan
"When the late Bishop was appointed, about thirty-two years ago, to diffuse the light of the Gospel through this extensive portion of His Majesty's dominions, it was even a greater spiritual, than a natural wilderness."
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"It's better to burn brightly for half as long than to be a dim lingering light."
Roland Gift
"It's better to burn brightly for half as long than to be a dim lingering light."
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"Be nobel. Be the light as if you are the source of life."
Debasish Mridha
"Be nobel. Be the light as if you are the source of life."
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"We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice."
Albert Pike
"We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice."
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"By the way, it was his simulations that helped out in Jurassic Park - without them, there would have been only a few dinosaurs. Based on his techniques, Industrial Light and Magic could make whole herds of dinosaurs race across the screen."
Marvin Minsky
"By the way, it was his simulations that helped out in Jurassic Park - without them, there would have been only a few dinosaurs. Based on his techniques, Industrial Light and Magic could make whole herds of dinosaurs race across the screen."
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