Brian Houston Quotes
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When in life do you get a black and white printout that says this is what you should do? It just doesn't happen.
Warren Littlefield -
It's not complicated to embrace life. You just have to make the choice.
Faith Hill -
Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness, and entertaining is a way to be both generous and creative. You're sharing your life with people. Of course, it's also an expression of your own need for approval and applause. Nothing wrong with that.
Ted Allen -
There came a moment in my life when I realized that I had stepped into another part of my life. I used to walk into a room full of people and think, do they like me? And one day I walk in and I thought, do I like them?
Victoria Principal -
With an undefended heart, we can fall in love with life over and over every day. We can become children of wonder, grateful to be walking on earth, grateful to belong with each other and to all of creation. We can find our true refuge in every moment, in every breath.
Tara Brach -
I'm a gay man who came out when I was 10 years old, and there's nothing in my life that I'm prouder of.
Sam Smith
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But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.
Harriet Ann Jacobs -
My life has been very lucky, but I made some of that luck.
Dan Jenkins -
Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.
Harold Pinter -
You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.
Karl Lagerfeld -
When I write, I don't allow the fear of consequences to interfere with the writing process. I have in the past paid for my commitment to the truth and the way I live my life. I am prepared to pay more if I have to.
Taslima Nasrin -
At the heart of every faith system is a bargain: on one side there is the comfort that comes from a narrative that suggests human life has cosmic significance, and on the other a duty to yield to moral commands that can, in the moment, seem rather inconvenient.
Gary Hamel
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I've always loved Victorian melodrama. And I've always liked larger-than-life theater, providing it's truthful and honest. I like what the theater can provide in energy and bombast - I enjoy it when it's large, and by that I don't mean in size, I mean in emotions. Shakespeare did that.
Harold Prince -
I was very happy being a secretary. I loved working for the government. I was very happy with my life.
Fawn Hall -
Everything in my life affects my writing. There are no separate parts of my life.
Patricia Reilly Giff -
Do not the brave know The greatness of their progeny? A country present will meet thee, And while it may possibly be yours, Three hundred thousand years save one, A short hour of the day of everlasting life.
Taliesin -
Advertisement is an absolute necessity of modern life, and if it can be made beautiful as well as obvious, so much the better for the makers of soap and the public who are likely to wash.
Aubrey Beardsley -
Fashion is a dream. It's difficult, and there are many aspects of fashion that are very difficult, but if you love it like I do, because I really have a passion, now, for fashion, it's not easy, but nothing is easy in life.
Carolina Herrera
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I've never seen the Osbournes, I've never seen Paris Hilton. I'd rather read than watch reality TV. I'd rather live life than watch somebody else living it.
Al Jourgensen 1000 Homo DJs -
The more you've lived, the more you've experienced, you emotionally know a lot more, especially if you haven't had a regular, straightforward kind of life.
Lesley Manville -
You're right on the money with that. We're all like detectives in life. There's something at the end of the trail that we're all looking for.
David Lynch The Platters -
I stopped asking myself questions like what the value of my stock was and started asking more fundamental questions of life and death.
Omar Amanat -
Man cannot degrade woman without himself falling into degradation; he cannot elevate her without at the same time elevating himself.
Alexander Walker -
There are times in life when you just have to commit to your mountain.
Brian Houston