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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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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It's always good to take something that's happened in your life and make something of it comedically.
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In life, we all struggle and strive to make progress. When will you know you've reached success? A billion dollars is a good sign, but there's a better one - humility.
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From the age of 11, I was cleaning floors, washing dishes, making sandwiches and being a cashier. Survival was the name of the game. Life was so hard that I had to struggle to keep up my standards. Under these conditions, I didn't think about science too much.
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The feeling of your baby taking nourishment from your body for the first time is amazing, and it remains the most touching moment of my life.
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Bin Laden studied economics and public administration before he turned to a life of jihad.
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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.
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I challenge the leaders of public education to stop issuing mandates from the state office and to focus on empowering schools and delivering resources to the school level.
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So, my advice to young scientists is, think critically about your work; probably don't blab unnecessarily.
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I love Chicago. It's one of the great cities. I'm crazy about the town. It reminds me of New York when it was at its best, the New York that used to be and is no more. I love the architecture, the old stuff and the new stuff.
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Loss is a part of life, unfortunately, and you've got to just deal with it.
