Mary Gordon Quotes
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.
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'Make You Miss Me' is an important song to me. Having it go No. 1 as the fifth single off of my first record is the cherry on top of a chapter in my life I'll never forget.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
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I can't give a decent toast to save my life.
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Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.
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Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.
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Just like gold, which has to weather very high temperatures to achieve the sheen and shine it finally gets, so also every person has to go through struggles in his life to achieve success.
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Coach Lue always amazed me. I'm like, 'How do you have this much joy coming out of life? You have money, but you don't drink; you don't smoke. All you do is hoop, and you live on a natural high.' But now I know.
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Big will always be a part of my life. But I'm still on this Earth, so I have to live my life for now and the future.
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Neither, I must say with all due respect, is it the power of teachers and students. Basically the true and real power is with working people of all colors, of all beliefs, of all national origins.
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I've been extremely fortunate in my life. So I actually believe that I'm the living embodiment of living the American dream.
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Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.
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Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
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There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
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London theatre is different: it is a commercial theatre that brings the whole of society into one place. And Shakespeare grasped, better than anyone else, what it means to engage the entire audience.
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I sleep and I unsleep. On the other side of me, beyond where I lie down, the silence of the house touches infinity. I hear time falling, drop by drop, and no falling drop is heard falling.
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This was the first time WND had found a major intellectual leader behind the push to integrate North America suggesting that a crisis of 9-11 proportions might be just what was needed to advance the process toward establishing a North American Union and the amero.
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I studied Shakespeare all through high school. Both of my parents teach English and history, so it has always been around my experience as a young man.
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My life is so much better than I thought it was going to be.
