Djuna Barnes Quotes
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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
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Obviously, exercise is an important part of my life, and I think taking care of yourself is an important part of every individual's health care.
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Surreal can be exciting and good, and it can be like living inside an alien landscape, and it can be completely interesting, or you can be alienated from your own life - inside your own life, it doesn't feel familiar any more.
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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
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Life is about timing.
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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
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I don't have stamina in exercise... but I have it in life.
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Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.
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When your life is as precious as all our lives are, then it needs to be kept precious and looked after and treated well. And that is not something we should be sharing with a wider audience.
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After I directed, when I went back to being an actor, I was like, 'God, this is the life!' Because you only have to concentrate on one thing.
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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Working out should be a key part of your life but not your whole life. When it is all a man could talk about, it becomes too much.
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Life is one long jubilee.
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I've had an amazing life, but I think I was born with a little bit of sadness in me. I've always been attracted to those things, whether it's sad movies, sad music... when you're sad, you feel everything in a greater way than you do when you're happy.
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What people ask for has nothing to do with the value of a property. You might see a listing for $300,000 and think you should make a $250,000 bid. But hyper-focus on what the house is worth. You should know what the house is worth by looking at comparable properties. Base your bid on that.
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You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.
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Either you face the challenges in life head on or back out. And I am not someone to back out from challenges.
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Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
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I have become cautious. There is no fixed formula. Today audience's sensibilities are sharp. You can't feed them rubbish. They want to watch good films. The script has to be appealling. Even if it is larger than life, it has to be realistic. Audiences have to identify with what you are showing.
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Everybody's life has some mythical quality. You struggle against obstacles, you fight to get to a higher level and there are great loves.
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Life is like photography. You need the negatives to develop.
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As cynical as I can be, there's always a part of me that believes in love and the fairy tale.
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You just do the best you can. It doesn't necessarily mean that you have to get worse the more you do it. It can get better, I think... aspects of it, anyway. I mean, I don't write as much as I used to. But I don't do a lot of things as much as I used to. So that's the natural order of things, too. You're more or less living in the present. You're just trying to get that next song, whatever it is. And not think too much about what happened on the last record, or the record you made 20 years ago, because those are over with. Those are done.
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Life is painful, nasty and short... in my case it has only been painful and nasty.
