Bernard Berenson Quotes
Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.
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I was always a real athletic kid. Then when I got older, I just figured it was part of life to keep training.
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Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.
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Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.
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The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.
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The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
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Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.
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Discomfort levels in our societies are rising, or so it would seem. In theory, we invoke diversity and tolerance. But in real life, we raise our hackles and withdraw into ourselves.
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Everybody always asks about Jimmy Fallon. I'm sorry to say that he's very nice and there's not much bad to say about him. I don't know if he sucks at videogames or not. I don't think he plays them, but he could have this whole secret life I don't know about.
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I told her it was a bigger than life musical, that all the actors were going to be about the same age, late twenties into thirties. It would be a style; a kind of surreal high school.
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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going to fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.
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You have to make time and tend to things that are important in your life so you can live the life of blessing God has promised you!
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My life is as an artist, not an entertainer. I don't consider myself an entertainer, but I can do that thing when I want to.
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There is no need to carry me to another prison. My life is already ebbing away. I suggest that you nail me to a cross and burn me alive. My flaming body will be a torch to light my people on their path to freedom.
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I have committed many sins in my life. But stealing money from the government, from the people, is not one of them.
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To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
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That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.
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What is my ruling faculty now to me? and of what nature am I now making it? and for what purpose am I now using it? is it void of understanding? is it loosed and rent asunder from social life? is it melted and mixed with the poor flesh so as to move together with it?
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What's interesting is, in the months leading up to this, I was probably at the lowest ebb in my life. I was feeling just teenage angst. I didn't know if I wanted to continue living - that kind of despair. I was praying to a God I didn't know was listening.
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I often think that eventually I'd love to do some papers... my correspondence if life calms down a bit, but I think I'd do history or English literature... I've had enough of journos.
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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.
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Missile: A self-contained device which delivers high explosives from the air, condemned because of its effects upon women, children, the aged, the sick, and other non-combatants, unless these happen to have resided in Saigon, Da Nang, Hué, etc. Cf. bombing.
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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.
