William Ernest Henley Quotes
Life - life - let there be life! Better a thousand times the roaring hours When wave and wind, Like the Arch-Murderer in flight From the Avenger at his heel, Storm through the desolate fastnesses And wild waste places of the world!
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I would love it if people could look at chubby folks with all of our curves, bumps and ridges and just say 'She's beautiful' just like that. You don't have to get on a treadmill as long as your blood pressure is under control and you eat healthy, God bless.
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One of my strengths is connecting with the players.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.
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Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
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I have this board in my house that lists out all the things that I love about myself. It's a board of affirmations, and it serves me well.
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As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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What happens in the media is the cult of personality. The brands who have been forced to cut their staff have been forced to take on the brands of journalists.
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Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.
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If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
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I had so much fun doing Django, and I love westerns so much that after I taught myself how to make one, it's like, 'OK, now let me make another one now that I know what I'm doing.'
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My golf swing is probably the most horrendous you've ever seen. I look like I'm trying to attack the ball.
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The more sympathy you give, the less you need.
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Any business owner can tell you that if their company isn't performing profitably and up to standards, one of two things will happen: either you make changes to improve its efficiency, or a competitor will drive you out of business. Market forces have a way of cutting to the chase rather quickly.
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We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
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If you hold back in hurdles, you are going to fall over.
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It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.
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Rauner needs to tell Illinoisans what essential health benefits he intends to keep covering in Illinois.
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Yes, hardships come. But I see in my life and in the lives of others how often something that does not have to be held as a hardship is dealt with by the mind as though it is.
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When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.
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Life - life - let there be life! Better a thousand times the roaring hours When wave and wind, Like the Arch-Murderer in flight From the Avenger at his heel, Storm through the desolate fastnesses And wild waste places of the world!
