William Ernest Henley Quotes
Who but knows How it goes! Life's a last year's Nightingale, Love's a last year's rose.
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If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.
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Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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Not to sound bad, but some girls are dumb. It's because they spend so much of their life trying to have the right look. On the other hand, some girls are just really smart. There are girls you can have conversations with that are healthy conversations. You can argue real life issues and solve problems together. That is what makes a woman sexy.
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When in life do you get a black and white printout that says this is what you should do? It just doesn't happen.
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I'm not the sort of person who wants to live my life doing just one thing. I like to go around and do as many things as possible.
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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
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I've worked in television all my life, but really I've always wanted to work in the movies.
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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I've never been a person to share my private life, but I can help save lives.
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The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.
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You get to bring your own sound system when you play an arena, all the lights and visual stuff, which I think is really cool. There's something about those old arenas, where it feels larger than life.
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Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.
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As a child I experienced firsthand the severe effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially upon women and children. My parents taught me the importance of education and that it was a key to improving an individual's life.
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When you write and direct your own film, you basically know exactly what you want. Or you hope to. For the studio, it actually can make life a little easier, because if you have a bunch of questions, they only need to call one person.
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Some people have been listening to the Beatles their whole lives; I didn't discover them until I was 18 years old.
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Presumptuously, I speak for all Who fans when I say being a fan of the Who has incalculably enriched my life. What disturbs me about the Who is the way they smashed through every door of rock & roll, leaving rubble and not much else for the rest of us to lay claim to.
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'Fallen Too Far' was my first NYT bestseller. That changed my life.
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Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball.
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I learned to fall down early in life - I was, like, six - because I realized it was a way to make girls laugh.
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Let the living give thanks to our honored dead who have paid the ultimate sacrifice that the Constitution of the United States remains our guiding light.
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There should be pluralism - the concept of many religions, many truths. But we must also be careful not to become nihilistic.
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If through practice of insight you develop a sense of ease, then time has no relevance. If you're miserable, time does matter. It's so unbearable, so enormous you want to get out of it as soon as possible.
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Let our position be absolutely clear: An attempt by any outside force to gain control of the Persian Gulf region will be regarded as an assault on the vital interests of the United States of America, and such an assault will be repelled by any means necessary, including military force.
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Who but knows How it goes! Life's a last year's Nightingale, Love's a last year's rose.
