Stephen Leacock (Stephen P. H. Butler Leacock) Quotes
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My dogs are spoilt for sure. They are pampered pooches. But I love them so much! I guess all dogs need to be washed, but maybe blueberry facials aren't essential. It's quite fun, though. You want to give your children everything; I don't have children, so I want my dogs to have a good life.
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I thought I knew everything when I came to Rome, but I soon found I had everything to learn.
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The worldview implied by literary fiction is complex and ambiguous, trying to be faithful to the complexity and ambiguity of life.
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According to my parents, I just started drumming when I was two. I traveled with them from five to seven on the road, playing percussion. Between 8 and 12, my dad sort of prepared me by teaching me every aspect of road life.
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Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
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I want simply to learn about the world and live freely.
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Choosing forgiveness opens the door of your heart and makes way for a miracle in your life.
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Either you face the challenges in life head on or back out. And I am not someone to back out from challenges.
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But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea that I could become a musician opened up some possibilities I didn't see otherwise.
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Before I even knew what that half of my family did, I was interested in performing. I remember being seven years old and up on a stage and loving it. I've always adored it. Not just acting, but the whole process of writing and directing movies, everything that has to do with that part of life. Maybe it's in my blood.
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I would never complain about my life, even though I really would like to have a mate.
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What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.
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You can do so much in ten minutes’ time. Ten minutes, once gone, are gone for good. Divide your life into 10-minute units and sacrifice as few of them as possible in meaningless activity.
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'Sometimes,' he said, 'I think life is just one long series of blown opportunities.'
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Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole.
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I had a lot of changes in my life since I turned 40. In fact, even since I turned 50. I became a vegetarian. I have never felt better in my life. I have more energy, I'm so much more alert. I lost 20 pounds, that's right! I really really recommend going vegetarian whatever time in your life. Peace begins on your plate. I'm Carol Leifer and I'm a vegan.
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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
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I also think stress is related to control. When you're in charge of your life, you tend to not care about losing control of things that don't really matter like traffic jams.
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I've never read a comic book in my life.
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When there is a psyche-disrupting event in your life, it can prevent you from getting the long blocks of sleep at night that are so important to healthy aging.
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Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.
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The Internet is full of choices, and nobody is going to make the choice to use a product that is hard to use or unattractive.
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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.
