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If you care to define the South as a poor, rural region with lousy race relations, that South survives only in geographical shreds and patches and most Southerners don't live there any more.

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• I care most about how people live their lives, what choices they make, and how they get the best from themselves.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
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• I live in Europe and care about democracy and sovereignty of nation states there.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
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• I'm not the sort of person who wants to live my life doing just one thing. I like to go around and do as many things as possible.

  

  Cameron Dallas
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• In certain parts of the world - where I'm at right now in New York, you're going to pay a whole lot more. In Los Angeles, your average starter home is a million dollars. So I need more money in Los Angeles to live like a normal person. If I live in another city, Iowa maybe, I wouldn't need as much.

  

  Karrine Steffans
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• I'm gonna live my life the correct way, and I'm gonna be a champion the kids look up to and hopefully aspire to be like.

  

  Daniel Cormier
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• What it is now is basically, I'll sit on my computer; I basically kind of play the computer as an instrument, I guess you could say. I guess I play the Mac. And how it works is, say - I have a program called 'Ableton Live.' And, you know, you'll open it up, and it's just blank. There's nothing there. And then you start.

  

  Flume
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• I have matured with the realization that I can live without a man!

  

  Lana Turner
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• I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
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• When we live the 21st-century good life, almost every aspect of it is predicated on not looking at the implications of what we're up to. Happiness at this point has a lot to do with not looking, so you don't feel complicit in some vast and awful enterprise.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
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• I was obsessed with Hollywood from the time I was a kid. I always knew I wanted to live in Los Angeles.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
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• The Hoosier way is quite simple - we work hard, and we live within our means.

  

  Dan Coats
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• Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment - a means to an end.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
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• There is never a typical week. I don't think I can live with a typical week.

  

  Zainab Salbi
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• I go to New York to see live shows, not movies.

  

  Gad Elmaleh
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• As a former writer for the 'National Lampoon,' I've probably contributed to the sea of sarcasm in which we live.

  

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• I love the action that I'm able to do. I grew up in Maine, outdoors and playing with the boys and shooting skeet. I have my girly side, too. But, I do like playing the strong female roles, especially now with something as simple as Twitter, where you've got young women following you.

  

  Rachel Nichols
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• The question of what it is to live an 'authentic life', that's a complicated one.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
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• A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• We live in a technical society.

  

  Nancy Roman
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• Live life and write about life. Of the making of many books there is indeed no end, but there are more than enough books about books.

  

  Will Self
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• Buck up, baby blowfish. Just puff up bigger than your sadness and scare it right off. That's the only way to live in the awful old ocean.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
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• Without a doubt, if I had it to do all over again, I would do whatever it takes to be a one-person studio. You need to learn how to write so you can control the material. If you own the material, you can do it all.

  

  James Woods
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• Jack: I can't understand it. On your show you always win.

  

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• If you care to define the South as a poor, rural region with lousy race relations, that South survives only in geographical shreds and patches and most Southerners don't live there any more.

  

  John Shelton Reed
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