Umberto Saba Quotes
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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As you make your way along life's tumultuous highways, it's important to note that you should always carry a map, have plenty of fuel in the tank, and take frequent rest stops.
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I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
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Enhanced interrogation is not to be considered lightly, but the use of enhanced interrogation techniques does not require moral people to abandon their beliefs. Rather, it is precisely during these difficult times that one's beliefs about life, justice and mercy become indispensible.
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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.
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The marriage state was designed to complete the sum of human happiness in this life. It sometimes proves otherwise, but this is owing to the parties themselves, who either rush into it without due consideration or fail in point of discretion in their conduct towards each other afterwards.
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Big will always be a part of my life. But I'm still on this Earth, so I have to live my life for now and the future.
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I personally think you can have a really rich and full life with no abs. Abs are for wimps.
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I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.
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It's hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don't always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.
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If I don't write, I hate myself. Simple as that. My life is out of balance.
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Dad's funeral was standing room only; most in attendance were strangers to me. At the back, a lone Marine stood silently, then left. People told me he'd saved their life or helped them in their darkest hour.
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A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it.
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Most of us don't confront pure anything. What our life does involve is a whole lot of 60/40 and 70/30.
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My perception of life is not to ask Francois Hollande, who isn't the father of my children, to support me financially.
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In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.
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Genius borrows nobly. When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies: 'Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life'.
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All his life he had lived by the law. Often his job had been to stop acts of revenge....And now revenge was all that life had left for him.
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There is enough sadness in life without having fellows like Gussie Fink-Nottle going about in sea boots.
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Everybody has their own approach. I don't adhere to any one philosophy. I learn a lot from life and people - watching and other people watching.
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I love a lot of the '70s singers: Pam Grier from the 'Foxy Brown' movie, Diana Ross, Tina Turner. They've always been able to embrace their hair, and they've never been afraid to take risks and go all out and make it thick and fun and a statement at the same time.
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In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it.
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Certainly, I've never wanted to live on past achievements.
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This was life: a sourly sip.
