Mary Boykin Chesnut Quotes
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
Forest Whitaker
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
Sally Mann
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I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet.
Natasha Richardson
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Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
Olivia Colman
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While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.
Edmund Hillary
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Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.
Camilla Luddington
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
Ilya Ehrenburg
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Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
A. E. Housman
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
Ramana Maharshi
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During the second half of the twentieth century, I had the privilege of living through years of intensive erudition, and I realized that Canadians, located in the northernmost region of this hemisphere, were always respectful towards our country.
Fidel Castro
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Success can allow you to try for greatness, can give you an opportunity to take a chance on something. I'm very blessed to have the success that I've had, and that's given me so many opportunities to work on being great.
Orlando Bloom
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I sent 'Hell or High Water' to Peter Berg, asking if he'd like to be involved.
Taylor Sheridan
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When I became CEO, I just didn't think about my age too much. I'm sure many people did think that my age mattered, but I didn't. That was probably because of my age.
Jochen Zeitz
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The naturalists of our own time hold equal faith in the wonders of the sea, but seek therein rather for the links of nature's chain than for apparent exceptions.
Edward Forbes
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The small amount of people that control the discourse around painting - I thought that the whole museum world was just a bunch of phonies, and I didn't really want to have anything to do with it. I guess I did installations, in a funny way, because they couldn't be commodified.
Fred Tomaselli
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Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
Ernest Hemingway
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Bob Dylan enabled rock & roll to grow up and survive. He injected the power of language and ideas into the music.
Jimmy Iovine
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Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world.
Mary Boykin Chesnut
