Brett Gelman Quotes
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Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.
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There's a sense of being under siege in many Muslim communities. People just assume there are agents or informants in their mosque now. It's a fact of life.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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My life has been a whole series of accidents, some of them happy, some not.
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I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle.
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Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don't think could get up in the morning.
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Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball.
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I've stood my ground in life, alone, even against overwhelming forces with the might and money to crush me.
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You can drain the life and nuances and complexity out of things by homogenizing them to make everything harmoniously dull, flat, conflict-free, strife-free.
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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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Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it.
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One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
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I'm a part of your life. You might not know it, but I am.
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I have struggled with identity all my life. It's not like something that just happened last week.
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In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.
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Every video I'm in, every magazine cover, they stretch you; they make you perfect. It's not real life.
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The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
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Ancient, woman-centered words and beliefs never, like, fall off the planet. Having long done taken on a life of their own, they - like womankind - evolve, and survive. Chameleon style.
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I was under the assumption that the first job you get out of college is the job you have for the rest of your life. That's how my parents were; my parents have been teachers for as long as I've known 'em. I was worried that I'd gotten into something that I was going to hate.
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Thoughts shut up want air,And spoil, like bales unopen’d to the sun.
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I still get a few dirty looks over the racks in the supermarket, but nobody kicks me in the shins on Water Street. I've made sort of a point, apart from being a social dud, not to fraternize with the people I write about.
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A lot of local food is very tasty. I'm very happy to eat it. I just don't think it's the same thing as saving the world.
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It's hard to be the first. It's almost as if I'm subject to a different level of inspection.
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Loss is a part of life, unfortunately, and you've got to just deal with it.
