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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'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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Nobody really knows anybody completely, even if they've been married to 'em for 53 years, you know?
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I was at art school that had quite a celebrated film course as well. I tried for that film course when I was 18, but they said I was too young. I tried this audio and visual design course instead. Two years later, I reapplied for that higher course, but they said I was still too young and to try in five years.
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Strong credit markets give companies borrowing options to boost their stock prices while making bearish investors scramble to close out trades before losing any more money, both of which then push the stock market even higher and continue the self-reinforcing bullish cycle.
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Investing in [children] is not a national luxury or a national choice. It's a national necessity. If the foundation of your house is crumbling, you don't say you can't afford to fix it while you're building astronomically expensive fences to protect it from outside enemies. The issue is not are we going to pay - it's are we going to pay now, up front, or are we going to pay a whole lot more later on.
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Most men are like plants: they possess properties which chance discovers.
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The way I think we were living is an invention. The truth is nobody can own anything. That was an unheard-of concept among indigenous people. We invented that.
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Who but knows How it goes! Life's a last year's Nightingale, Love's a last year's rose.
