John Gilpin Quotes
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I loved my life, but my choices were overloading and overwhelming me. Listening to inner feelings and fulfilling some of these urges when they come along is incredibly important.
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Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.
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Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.
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Succeeding in life is a difficult business - you need to work 16 hours a day, face failures along the way, remember that nobody owes you a thing, and take risks.
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Thinking should become your capital asset, whatever ups and downs you may come across in your life.
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I've been telling people I'm in the best shape of my life, I've been training unbelievably hard.
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I will say one thing: Mick Mars is one of the greatest songwriters I've ever met in my life and had the pleasure to work with.
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I'm at a point in my life where I have something solid now. I'm a peaceful person, and I want to be surrounded by peace no matter what I'm doing.
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Edith Wharton was a natural story-teller. As plots do in real life, hers flow directly from character. Her prose is so effortlessly elegant that you're rarely aware as they purl by that the sentences are so pretty. More concerned with what is put than how it is put, she also understood that you only say anything at all when you say it well.
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My whole life is punk.
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I've come to the conclusion that life is for the taking and just too short to dwell on the negative.
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The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.
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Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.
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I have the advantage of many perspectives as someone who has lived in different kinds of communities: as a woman, as someone who previously identified as a lesbian, as someone who is a person of color. I've had a lot of life, so that informs what I do.
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I think everybody in news understands that the audience that watches for more than an hour is not your target audience - because those people are on life support.
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I realised it was only me who was stopping myself from living my life.
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I'm a really nice guy when you meet me, and that surprises a lot of people. I'm not that eccentric in real life - and certainly not that disrespectful. In my own time, I like to just chill out with friends and not get in people's faces.
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When I was in my teen years and in my 20s and even 60s, it was okay to drop everything and disappear and become a road warrior for all those months. But after a while you get... y'know, one likes to have some home life.
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I like to read, walk, cook, and travel to cities. We live in the country, so we miss museums and the bustle of city life.
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Edinburgh is my adopted home. It's a place where I wanted to come and live, and I managed to arrange my life so it happened.
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I am absolutely not a feminist, I am against stupidity, and if it comes from males or females, it doesn't change anything. If it means that women and men, they are equal, then OK, certainly I am a feminist.
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What I look for these days is that I don't have long speeches, the characters gets to sit down a lot, I don't have to learn any foreign languages, and it doesn't shoot in Minneapolis in February. That's mainly what I look for.
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To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. For a man who claims to have knowledge, while actually knowing nothing, is less smarter than you, who claim to know nothing.
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I didn't want to spend my life behind a desk.
