Bernard Berenson Quotes
From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.
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Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.
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Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.
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I think that God prepared me for Chris's death in some ways, because I've seen other people lose their spouses. I've known for a long time that life isn't fair.
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Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.
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I probably prefer comedy. Why? I'm not sure. I feel like the energy of a comedy is a better fit for me. I try to be a happy guy! It seems that most of my life has the energy more for a comedy than for drama. I'm grateful to do both, but I would have to lean towards the comedy side of acting.
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I think the first 10 years of my daughter's life were my mother's happiest, because she could finally have carefree time with a kid.
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I love love, and I love life. I love. I just love. It's just great. It's the most enduring element we have is love.
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If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.
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I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
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Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.
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I have obsessed about my weight in some sort of way all my life. I used to write in my journal what I weighed every day.
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There is something about safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows and feel as if you had drunk half a bottle of champagne - bubbling over with heartfelt gratitude for being alive.
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The tiny fish enjoy themselves in the sea. Quick little splinters of life, their little lives are fun to them in the sea.
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I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can … But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.
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There is no such thing as death; life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.
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My mother had no end of tragedy in her life. She would make herself get up and take a deep breath and go out and do laundry. Hang up sheets.
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I've got a great family, great career, great friends, and a lot of passions, which make my life interesting and fulfilling every day.
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My father grew up in a life of extreme privilege.
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Our very strength as lesbians lies in the fact that we are outside of patriarchy; our existence challenges its life.
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Tell your daughters and their daughters that if they want to be a firewoman, they can be a firewoman. If they want to be an astronaut, they can be an astronaut. If they want to run their own business or run for president, they can do whatever they put their mind to.
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Only once in Chopin's music is there a direct reference to Bach, and that is, appropriately, at the beginning of his only educational work, the two sets of Etudes, Op. 10 and 25, and the three Nouvelles Etudes for Moscheles. In the first Etude, Op. 10, in C major, we find a modernized version of the Prelude no. 1 of the Well-Tempered Keyboard...
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It raises several serious questions. For example, how can there possibly be more than one person as awesome as me?
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All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things.
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From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.
