John Gay Quotes
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With myself, how to pass time becomes sometimes the question - unavoidably, though it strikes me as a thing unspeakably sad in a life so short as ours.
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You aren't your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family... your anything. You're a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.
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It takes heart to be in political life.
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My life, my family and my friends are back in the U.K., so ideally I would love the kind of career that is split between London and New York.
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If life is a checker game, someone else is moving the pieces. It isn't us. Don't be surprised by amazing coincidences. There are no accidents. Consider, as I learned to do, the incredible interconnectedness of all of life.
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I believe much of the pain of a breakup comes from having a life plan that you have fallen in love with. When it does not work out, you become angry that you now have to pursue a new life plan.
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I've had an amazing life, but I think I was born with a little bit of sadness in me. I've always been attracted to those things, whether it's sad movies, sad music... when you're sad, you feel everything in a greater way than you do when you're happy.
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Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
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You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.
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I believe that life is short, and there is too much time wasted bearing grudges, and I like to move on.
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When I sit and talk with a person, I'm not always paying attention. I'm looking at the person and saying, 'What is it about his or her life that appeals to me?'
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My personal ambition remains the same - to be creative, to be modern, to stay one step ahead, to enjoy life.
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Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you. When you occupy it, step into it consciously, you live it.
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'The Reader' is about a young man's experience of falling in love with somebody who, it turns out, made some choices that were unavoidable in her life that resulted in horrific crimes against humanity.
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Students today need experience to get a job, and they need a job to get experience. The Chegg Champion program provides students with a real-world working experience that actually offers financial rewards.
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My father's music gives hope to people and also inspires them to break the bonds of injustice and to be positive in life. I've seen that everywhere I go, especially in poor countries and poor neighborhoods.
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I don't deny my life-style is occasionally pretty wild.
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One woman came up to me at a lecture and observed that I was much fatter than on television; I think I look better onscreen than in real life. It's the lights.
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Competing in show jumping is a school of life. And it's one of the few Olympic sports where men and women are equal.
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If you take a few days to write an outline, you're just making up scenes that you think will work, that you think will be interesting. But as you write it, other ideas occur - better ideas that have to do with what you're writing.
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In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests.
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At my shows, I like everyone to have a good time... but, I like for us to be real because there's freedom in that.
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I think there's something important in going against the grain and perhaps finding value in things that aren't necessarily institutionally recognized.
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Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; and now I know it.
