Maurice Sendak Quotes
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Some days, I'll tell you that everything in life was meant to be and that there is an order to the universe. Other days, I'm convinced it's all a combination of luck and opportunity.
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More than once, I've wished my real life had a delete key.
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I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players, and that's what I tried to do.
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Since Madonna is positioned as always 'cooler than thou,' we all are primed for schadenfreude if something in her fabulous life goes amiss.
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I want to love life.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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I like to look for patterns in science and life. It's what I do.
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Although China is not so wealthy and powerful as the West, her people of whatever condition - rich or poor, high or low - all enjoy a perfect freedom and a happy life. Not so all the inhabitants of Western lands.
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You're trying to put yourself in that moment and trying to prepare yourself, to have a 'memory before the game. I don't know if you'd call it visualising or dreaming, but I've always done it, my whole life.
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I think I have a right to live my life the way I like.
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Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
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Well, I have a sister that I'm very close with, and that relationship is probably the most intense relationship of my life to date, probably of my life, period.
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Be who you are. It's easy to feel like you have to blend in, but it takes courage to live your life with conviction and embrace the person that you are.
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Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don't think could get up in the morning.
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Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
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I never got down with conveying a larger-than-life vibe.
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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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Having a child, particularly your first child, is such a life-changing moment. Nothing can really prepare you for that.
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There's a lot of music in my life, and I found it a very important part of my life.
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Virtually all ideologues, of any variety, are fearful and insecure, which is why they are drawn to ideologies that promise prefabricated answers for all circumstances.
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I like to look for patterns in science and life. It's what I do.
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I'm a huge Elizabeth Berg fan. Her novels are always charming, thoughtful, and filled with lively, three-dimensional characters.
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There must be more to life than having everything.
