Jenny Zhang Quotes
As you get older, you realize you're only the protagonist in your own story and a blip in someone else's life.
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Life isn't perfect, of course, but we all know it's how you react to things that counts.
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I was always a real athletic kid. Then when I got older, I just figured it was part of life to keep training.
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I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.
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'The View' was so much fun. So much fun because the audience was 85-percent fans that wanted to be there celebrating 'One Life to Live' and the other 15 percent were crew members from 'One Life to Live'. It was just really, really wonderful and the clips were wonderful.
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The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
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I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.
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I've learned through experience that life is never that bad. The secret is just paying attention to how you feel and not letting anyone else dictate what in your heart you know is right.
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In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.
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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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With an undefended heart, we can fall in love with life over and over every day. We can become children of wonder, grateful to be walking on earth, grateful to belong with each other and to all of creation. We can find our true refuge in every moment, in every breath.
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I've always been singing all my life, but I started playing guitar when I was 19, and that was my final year in university, in law school. I think that happened when I started making a lot of friends who were in the independent music scene.
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I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion.
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Bitterness and unforgiveness block the flow of God's blessing in your life and actually hinder your prayers.
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It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
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You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.
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There is nothing more important in life than love.
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Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?
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It took me 10 years to realize that I don't know 'em, 10 years to realize that it's possible to learn them, then another 10 years to learn how to do things.
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My dad always made sense. My dad was only wrong when I didn't understand him. Had I listened to him, my life would have been so much easier.
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Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not a step backward. Rather, returning to a simpler way allows us to regain our dignity, puts us in touch with the land, and makes us value human contact again.
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At one point, I had over 800 employees, and I always paid all health care for my people - including a man who was my assistant who got HIV. I wound up paying his medical bills, which went into the hundreds of thousands. I'm not making myself out to be a saint. I did the right thing.
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Because I grew up in McAllen, we would watch Televisa a lot.
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As you get older, you realize you're only the protagonist in your own story and a blip in someone else's life.
