Sidney Buchman (Sidney Robert Buchman) Quotes
I consider the philosophy of the Communist Party as not applicable to our American way of life.
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Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.
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The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.
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A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the sentence of your life.
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Not all of us are chameleons that can do every different thing. I hope I'm going to be typecast. I will play the girl next door for the rest of my life if I have to. I always kind of feel like I have that in my pocket when I go in a room.
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It's all in how you look at your life, because no one has a wonderful life. But you can make it what you want it to be.
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Back in 1968, when I was 30, my entire life blew up. I had a life plan, and it collapsed for no rational reason.
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I cry a lot when I feel empathy. I can feel heartbroken by life, and I cry quite easily, sometimes for no reason. It's healthy, I think.
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During my many years in international business and public life, I have had the good fortune of sitting down for lunch with people with whom I completely disagreed, in practice and principle: Soviet communists, heads of state from various unsavory regimes, benighted religious figures, corrupt business leaders.
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Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
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I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.
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Both music and acting are huge parts of my life - it's all about balance.
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But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore.
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We have the tools, but we have to learn how to use them. That is my political philosophy.
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Christians who have influence in political life must feel as individuals responsibility in front of their own faith. And the duty of encouraging laws that are not in contradiction with the Commandments comes within the mission of the Church.
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Too many people dwell on the past: the thing is to get on with life.
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There is no need to carry me to another prison. My life is already ebbing away. I suggest that you nail me to a cross and burn me alive. My flaming body will be a torch to light my people on their path to freedom.
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Asking science to explain life and vital matters is equivalent to asking a grammarian to explain poetry.
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Sending your child off to school for the first time in their life is terrifying.
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Most people try to avoid cliches. It's my ambition in life to try to get 'em right!
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How you conduct yourself along the path that is your life determines how your life unfolds.
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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
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By age 19, I was married to a high-profile, much older musician and was mother to a baby girl. Since then, I've been divorced, been a cheater, been cheated on, gotten happily remarried, and raised a couple of great kids.
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Calling a book 'young adult' is only important in that it can help get a book to the right reader. After that, it's a useless abstraction and should be discarded.
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I consider the philosophy of the Communist Party as not applicable to our American way of life.
