Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay Quotes

Be wise in the use of time. The question in life is not "how much time do we have?" The question is "what shall we do with it?"

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• For nearly two years, I was flying above the planet with my camera. I knew straight away that this was something important to do, just at this moment, a portrait of the planet for the millennium year. I worked in 80 countries, fighting for money all the time.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
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  • Money

• I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.

  

  Gary Lucas
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• Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory.

  

  Zhang Yimou
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  • Deep

• Lanai at one time grew 98% of the world's pineapples. But the world's pineapples are now grown in two places, Costa Rica and Panama, because no one wants to spend $45 for a pineapple from the United States.

  

  Larry Ellison
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• Above and beyond drawing my creations, I try to incorporate some kind of message. I try not to end as merely a question but try to provide a conclusion within the work.

  

  Natsuki Takaya
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• I was lucky enough to have an older brother who shared the splatter flicks with me, and I had parents who were cool and involved enough in my life to allow me to see them. I think my folks appreciated that I looked at these movies as a creative outlet... almost like magic shows, if you will.

  

  Adam Green
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• I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.

  

  Caio Fonseca
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  • Painting
  • Magic

• I think as a child you know when it's time for your parents to split. You realise they love each other, but they're not in love with each other. And I think as a child it's much better for your parents to split than for them to stay and have dysfunction within the family.

  

  Abbie Cornish
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• I'm really kind of boring - I'd rather go to bed early and get up early because I really value my time off, my time away from work.

  

  Mandy Moore
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• I was very, very thrown by the fact that I had to make some big changes in my life in order to be myself, but under this kind of movie-star banner.

  

  Kate Winslet
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• Another Black Label motto. That's what I think life is. It's just another bridge to cross. You ask no questions. Whatever work it is you gotta do, you gotta go over it, under it, through it, around it, to do it.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
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• It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about the pessimist. The word 'pessimist' was not in our vocabulary at that time. It's a modern 'invention' which I believe we should 'dis-invent.'

  

  Zig Ziglar
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• I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.

  

  Manuel Puig
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• I am so blessed that all I've done in my professional life, since I was 17-18, is play music and somehow make a dollar here and there.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
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• 'Almost everything interesting in the human experience is the result of an individual experiencing, experimenting, explaining, and sharing,' said my young friend. 'A hive mind would be the ancient television broadcasts, or life at the height of the datasphere...consensual idiocy.'

  

  Dan Simmons
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  • Experience

• A dim consciousness of infinite mystery and grandeur lies beneath all the commonplace of life. There is an awfulness and a majesty around us, in all our little worldliness.

  

  Albert Pike
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• First of all, as a man the most important thing you have in your life now is your child that you're carrying. That's it. Everything else comes second; personally, for me, other than your relationship with God and your wife.

  

  Allan Houston
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• When I saw 'Talk to Her' for the first time, I was crying out loud because I couldn't imagine that I was doing that film.

  

  Javier Camara
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• There's so much more to people than their differences.

  

  Barbie Ferreira
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• Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather, take possession of what is my birthright, my inheritance.

  

  Ella Maillart
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• Doing a movie of one of the Raksura books would involve a lot of CGI, but I have thought about who I'd like to play the characters. Some of them I just can't pin down to a specific actor, and I keep revising my mental list.

  

  Martha Wells
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• They have this social justification for every nasty thing they do!

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
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• I understand that government should live within its means, value the money it holds in trust from you the taxpayer, avoid waste and, above all else, observe the first maxim of good government: namely, do no avoidable harm.

  

  Tony Abbott
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• Be wise in the use of time. The question in life is not "how much time do we have?" The question is "what shall we do with it?"

  

  Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay
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