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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Unlike the time sink of binge-watching a TV series, podcasts actually made me more efficient. Practically every dull activity - folding laundry, applying makeup - became tolerable when I did it while listening to a country singer describing his hardscrabble childhood, or a novelist defending her open marriage.
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The relations between rhetoric and ethics are disturbing: the ease with which language can be twisted is worrisome, and the fact that our minds accept these perverse games so docilely is no less cause for concern.
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At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.
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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting everyone else to give it up.
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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.
