Bess Streeter Aldrich Quotes
Humans are queer. A man, living and well, is ignored or criticized. Dying or dead, he is noticed and praised. Death sheds a temporary glamour over the poorest soul. It is as though in dying, he has accomplished something which life never gave him.
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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
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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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If I don't fight McGregor, I still have a good life.
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The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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I never worked in an office in my life.
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I think that there are a lot of elements and events that will make you scared in life and make you not want to sort of show your true self.
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My life is not that glamorous. I actually live a pretty simple life, really. I just work. I don't have time to do all these glamorous things. I just do my thing, just work.
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I think poetry always lives its life, and people come to it and people go away from it, 'people' in the sense of larger numbers of people. It's as though you begin to think that poetry is a resource, and that at certain times people seem to need it or want it or can find sustenance in it, and at other times they can't.
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I've been vegetarian for virtually all of my adult life, and I do adopt a very strict health regime.
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My primary passion is film-making. That's the aspect of my life that defines me, completes me, and completely grounds me. Everything else - from judging a reality TV show to hosting a talk show - is just a result of me being a film-maker. I am the happiest, satisfied and at peace when I am behind the camera.
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The most profound, tangible influence in my life has been my wife, Monique. I don't know that I would even be alive were it not for her, and I certainly would not be the person that I am today.
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The right to life is guaranteed to all Americans in the Declaration of Independence, and ensuring this is upheld is the Constitutional duty of all members of Congress.
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After reaching 50, I began to wonder what the root of life is.
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I don't feel any need to play the role of the clown. In my private life I take a break from humor.
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My life motto is 'Do my best, so that I can't blame myself for anything.'
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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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'Whatever situation you are facing, don’t let it overwhelm you. Stay focused because there is something far more important than that situation – your dream and your goals in life.'
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I remember being on a black-and-white set all day and then going out into daylight and being amazed by the colour.
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The current use of the National Guard is wrong... These are men who did not sign up to go occupy foreign nations.
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If you don't fill your days with love, you are wasting your life.
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The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.
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Laughter—one of the most precious of God’s gifts; the very salt, the very light, the very fresh air of life; the divine disinfectant, the heavenly purge. Could one ever be real friends with somebody one didn’t laugh with? Of course one couldn’t.
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Humans are queer. A man, living and well, is ignored or criticized. Dying or dead, he is noticed and praised. Death sheds a temporary glamour over the poorest soul. It is as though in dying, he has accomplished something which life never gave him.
