George Newbern Quotes
I keep all irons in the fire because, 'You never know.' It's because I have to, and otherwise, life gets boring.
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A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.
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Grief is a terrible, painful place. You can't grind away on grief in a solid way and say, 'I'm going to work on this until it's over' because it will be with you for the rest of your life, whatever you do. So, you deal with it and move on.
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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I did an improv that was one of the most exhilarating ten minutes of my entire life. I mean, when you're doing it, you forget yourself.
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I want to love life.
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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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I cried like a baby. When no one could see me or hear me. Not because I feared what cancer would do, but because I didn't want the disease. I wanted my life to be normal, which it could no longer be.
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We need to accept that consumption is not the end goal of our life and stop measuring our well-being simply on the basis of earnings. We need to explicitly take the quality of our work-related life into account in judging our well-being.
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The first thousand days of a baby's life are likely to determine the rest of her life - whether she grows up to be healthy or not, both physically and emotionally.
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I've been strong and determined all my life about many things I've wanted.
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My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.
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India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It's the reverse of the West.
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Though he was not a reader himself, my father understood that reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.
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There's nothing like the force and challenge of a new ballet to galvanize everyone involved in bringing it to life.
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I don't really think about having a retrospective on my high-school years. It's not something that, from a positive or a negative standpoint, is a driving force in my life.
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I have been touched by extreme violence, and I have been robbed of the life I always wanted by someone who chose to do evil.
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It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess.
Garry Kasparov -
If there is one thing I have learned on this incredible journey we call life, it is this: the sign of a truly successful individual is humility.
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I have no regrets. I wanted to raise the kids and be a present father. When I developed a movie, I was gone for a year. That didn't really work for me. That isn't fair to make these life-forms and then disappear.
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My mother taught us to sell food in the market so we could pay for school. I would get up at 4:30 A.M. and start selling bread and cheese before going to class. School cost $65. The average salary was $125 a year, and with 10 kids, how are you going to pay for that?
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As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.
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There was a very famous leader in Atlanta who thought that education was appropriate, but on the whole, the view was, 'If you're going to keep people down, you have to keep them ignorant. And so, nothing personal, but we just don't want to recognize the attributes that man of learning would bring. Quite threatening, those would be.'
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I keep all irons in the fire because, 'You never know.' It's because I have to, and otherwise, life gets boring.
