Arthur Lismer Quotes
Turning points in my life... the bush, the trails, lakes, waterfalls... moving camp from one wonderful lake to another... the companionship of a great individual, a wonder with canoe, axe and fish line.
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.
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'Fallen Too Far' was my first NYT bestseller. That changed my life.
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Child actors come off as work being their life and doing it 24/7, but I still have those days where it's totally, like, whatever: shopping, movies, adventures.
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When we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code, but a character.
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Having our fundamental assumptions about life challenged is never a comfortable thing.
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Basically, I love films where everything is great and life is good.
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The early years of my life were very, very traumatic. It was scary, because any child knew that death was sort of lurking around Europe as far as Jews were concerned.
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It's a little-appreciated fact that most of the animals in our ocean make light. I've spent most of my career studying this phenomenon called bioluminescence. I study it because I think understanding it is critical to understanding life in the ocean where most bioluminescence occurs.
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Asked to give advice to a 13-year-old girl about how to lead her life, I say find something you love to do. The goal shouldn't be accumulating money. It might be making changes in the world, or in your country.
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The increase in brain size and refinement of stone artifacts point to an unbroken advance in mental ability over the last two or three million years. ...No organ in the history of life has grown faster.
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I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After-life to spell: And by and by my Soul return'd to me, And answer'd 'I Myself am Heav'n and Hell:'
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Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
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For those who want ‘to change life', ‘to reinvent love,’ God is nothing but a hindrance.
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What has always attracted me in life is poetry. Any genre can have poetry. For me, poetry contains truth.
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Life is so fragile, so brief. And we seemingly work so hard at trying to ignore that.
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I've only paid lip service to a spiritual life.
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I just don't want to talk about my personal life. I feel like it's mine, I'm not trying to promote it. It's nice to have things that are your own, that you value enough that you don't have to use to sell a movie.
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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
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I know Bo Xilai well. But our relationship was based on our work; we didn't have a personal relationship.
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The only thing worse than a loser is someone who won't admit he played badly.
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In some cultures, when you give someone a gift, it's expected that they will pass it on. This seems like a peculiar practice in the West, but in many other societies, a gift has a spirit. If you try to possess the gift, you remove its spirit as a gift.
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I sort of play golf because a lot of my friends are into it, but I'm awful - my handicap is about six or seven thousand.
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Turning points in my life... the bush, the trails, lakes, waterfalls... moving camp from one wonderful lake to another... the companionship of a great individual, a wonder with canoe, axe and fish line.
