James Whistler Quotes
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When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.
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As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.
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I read the Steve Jobs book, and that kind of changed everything. I've been, like, an Apple geek my whole life and have always seen him as a hero. But reading the book, and learning about how he built the company, and maintaining that corporate culture and all that, I think that influenced me a lot.
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I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.
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Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.
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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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Laughing and crying are very similar. They're an extreme response to life. You see it in children who start laughing hysterically.
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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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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Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
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Eliza Factor's first novel, 'The Mercury Fountain,' explores what happens when a life driven by ideology confronts implacable truths of science and human nature. It also shows how leaders can inflict damage by neglecting the real needs of real people.
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Know or listen to those who know.
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Remember, if you want to love your life and live it to the fullest, don't let the sun go down on your anger. If you don't have a solution to the issue, agree to disagree and focus on the importance of the relationship.
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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
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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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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.
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One of the great joys of life, now that you can afford a nice suit, is getting one for free. That's why I like to do press tours - I always say making movies is just an excuse to get free clothing.
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My passion is acting, and has always been. It's what brought me to this point of being able to diversify and do other things, and I hope it's something I'll continue to have a passion for.
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Situationism is a ludicrous proposition. It's ill-formed and it's perfectly French. That Gallic disposition towards common sense. L'Anarchie!
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The first Decline I did was out of sheer love and appreciation for the music. In 1977, it was more about bands, because punk was a new form of music. It was groundbreaking and political.
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An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.
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The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.
