Charles Macomb Flandrau Quotes

It is good to appreciate that life is now. Whatever it offers, little or much, life is now – this day – this hour.

Charles Macomb Flandrau

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• To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

  

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• India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It's the reverse of the West.

  

  Gary Wright
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• So, it's nice to know that you've inspired someone to do their life's work.

  

  Wanda Jackson
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• One of the nice things about writing is you can take essentially painful things in your life and turn them into something that might be useful, or at least entertaining, to somebody else.

  

  Patrick deWitt
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• The more you create authentic power, the more the characteristics of authentic power become yours, and the more meaning, purpose and joy enter your life.

  

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• I guess I lead a double life, and I must admit I'm happy with both.

  

  Yvonne De Carlo
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• One can make no better investment than the cultivation of a taste for the beautiful, for it will bring rainbow hues and enduring joys to the whole life. It will not only greatly increase one's capacity for happiness, but also one's efficiency.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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• Genius borrows nobly. When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies: 'Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life'.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life

• It doesn't matter whether I'm judged criminal. I have a great feeling of guilt - I have a feeling that I ran after Hitler like a wildfire without reason. If I can sacrifice my life to make something good, I'd gladly do it.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Life
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• It's a mere moment in a man's life between the All-Star Game and an old timer's game.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Life
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• And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Life
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• I think too much during my day-to-day life; I'm the guy who worries about everything.

  

  Brian Posehn
  • Life
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• The world belongs to no one. There are very few people who fit into the world. And part of the struggle of every human life is to somehow claim a place on the planet, but it's at the forefront of the experience of the wandering race. The wandering people.

  

  Deborah Eisenberg
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• You don't always have to get an expensive gym membership. The important thing is to keep moving and to make it fun and have variety - it's the spice of life.

  

  Christie Brinkley
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• Eight times a week, I got to be a gay man, a remarkable gay man, and every night, that felt as full, as true, as passionate, and as authentic as I ever felt in my life.

  

  Joel Grey
  • Life
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• I don't take it lightly that I brought a life into this world. They're waiting for you every day, these sweet little angels. You have to have time for them to interact on a daily basis.

  

  Kelly Cutrone
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• There was never a point in my life where I gave up. My marriage, as you know, fell apart.

  

  Deidre Hall
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• When I got the call about 'Arrival,' I was doubtful because the piece had had a life on cinema already, and we were getting to the point where the original context was sort of lost, and I didn't want that to happen. On the other hand, 'Arrival' itself is a political film because it's about unification and getting beyond boundaries.

  

  Max Richter
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• I was pretty confident that I'd be playing something, if James Gunn could convince Marvel Studios and Disney to cast me. He's involved with the casting too, but if he could convince them to go along with him and agree with getting me on the roster, then yeah, I would have voiced Groot. Not a problem. Groot is an awesome character.

  

  Michael Rooker
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  • Involved
  • Convince

• It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Me
  • Fashion
  • Woman

• When people are putting pressure on me I just completely ignore it.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • People
  • Me
  • Pressure

• A lot of wars are fought between black and whites daily in America. But if it's something I want to be with, the people who started it were black, I wouldn't not get in it.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • People
  • America
  • Wars

• It is good to appreciate that life is now. Whatever it offers, little or much, life is now – this day – this hour.

  

  Charles Macomb Flandrau
  • Life
  • Hours
  • Appreciate