Erwin Chargaff Quotes
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I've been watching a lot of A&E's 'Intervention.' I know that's sort of depressing, but I love watching it.
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My whole life is about being Nicki Minaj now. It's a never-ending saga.
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There is a diabolical streak in me, a troublesome and inexplicable perversity.
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This life is for us to discover the divine within. And that's really the key to life in many ways for me. And the thing is, it's not for us to reason why everything is what it is... just do it.
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Keep your words. This pain is no life." "You only feel pain because you're alive, boy!" the keeper thundered. "This is the mystery of it. Life is lived on the ragged edge of the cliff. Fall off and you might die, but run from it and you are already dead!
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Life is great-I wouldn't know what I'd do without it.
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Life is good when you have a good sandwich.
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Life is not an orderly progression, self-contained like a musical scale or a quadratic equation... If one is to record one's life truthfully, one must aim at getting into the record of it something of the disorderly discontinuity which makes it so absurd, unpredictable, bearable.
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telling the truth about children's lives is radical.
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Life is like a box of terrible analogies...
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This is why we shouldn't be afraid. There are two possibilities: One is that there's more to life than the physical life, that our souls "will find an even higher place to dwell" when this life is over. If that's true, there's no reason to fear failure or death. The other possibility is that this life is all there is. And if that's true, then we have to really live it - we have to take it for everything it has and "die enormous" instead of "living dormant," as I said way back on "Can I Live." Either way, fear is a waste of time.
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[On her dogs:] I have four now. My friends tell me if I get any more they'll have to hold an intervention.
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Life is about making right things and going on.
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Life is not a burden, but we make it one when we refuse to accept things as they are.
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Life is a story. Why do we die? Because we live. Why do we live? Because our Maker opened His mouth and began to tell a story.
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Spring is worth the wait. Life is worth the death.
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The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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One life is an absurdly small allowance.
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I went through an experience that taught me that as soon as you think that you know how your life is going to be, something in the universe will make you realize that you really are not that in control of it.
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To lose one's life is no great matter; when the time comes I'll have the courage to lose mine. But what's intolerable is to see one's life being drained of meaning, to be told there's no reason for existing. A man can't live without some reason for living.
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Early love is exciting and exhilarating. It's light and bubbly. Anyone can love like that. But after three children, after a separation and a near-divorce, after you've hurt each other and forgiven each other, bored each other and surprised each other, after you've seen the worst and the best-- well, that sort of love is ineffable. It deserves its own word.
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Be humble, believe in yourself, and have the love of the world in your heart.
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Doing a scene is like opening a bottle. If it doesn't open one way, try another - perhaps even give it up for another bottle?
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Life is the continuing intervention of the inexplicable.
