Brian Morton Quotes
The thing is to let life assault you, make yourself as defenseless as you can. If it bruises you, don't protest. Love your fate.
Brian Morton
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Self-esteem is a powerful force within each of us... Self-esteem is the experience that we are appropriate to life and to the requirements of life.
Nathaniel Branden
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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
Florence Scovel Shinn
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It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning.
Dan Pallotta
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I like a quiet life.
Wendy Cope
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Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.
Orlando Bloom
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I think that anything that you do, any accomplishment that you make, you have to work for. And I've worked very hard in the last ten years of my life, definitely, and I can tell you that hard work pays off. It's not just a cliche.
Cameron Diaz
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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.
E. W. Howe
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These women were taking over these former manufacturing warehouses in SoHo and figuring out a way to be fashionable and viable without money. It's hard to imagine a life like that in Manhattan now - there's something romantic about it.
Rachel Kushner
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Of course, I should have done what doctors said and walked for miles every day and not eaten great amounts of butter. But then, life is life, and if we all did what they said we should do, it would be a different world.
Maeve Binchy
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Dictators are ludicrous characters, and, you know, in my career and in my life, I've always enjoyed sort of inhabiting these ludicrous, larger-than-life characters that somehow exist in the real world.
Sacha Baron Cohen
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I was a young kid from Long Island who wanted to do something large with her life, so I can relate to that.
Edie Falco
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I don't have a lot of men in my life. I'm married, but I have daughters. I'm surrounded by a lot of females in my world.
Gayle Forman
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For the first ten years after I got out of graduate school, I studied success. I read every book I could get my hands on and took every training I could find, and that allowed me to become an expert in this area. I learned how to create high self-esteem and success in my own life and in the lives of others.
Jack Canfield
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I started boxing because of my brother. And then I came to admire the all-time greats, like Roberto Duran and Muhammad Ali. I'd say I admired Ali more than any fighter in my life.
Canelo Alvarez
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As a nation, we need to do everything we can to make sure those who have served have the tools they need to succeed in civilian life.
Tammy Duckworth
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You can love someone like your son, even if he's not your biological son, and you can love someone like your father, even if he's not your biological father.
Oliver Hudson
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I'd really like to go back to New Japan because it feels like home, and I love that place so much.
T. J. Perkins
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As far as stand-ups go, I always loved Richard Pryor, Chris Rock, and Sinbad. Basically, I love black comedians because they're the funniest. I wish I were a black comedian, actually.
Adam DeVine
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Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink.
W. C. Fields
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Why does love, even such love as he claims to practise, need the spectacle of beauty to bring it to life? What, in the abstract, do shapely legs have to do with love, or for that matter with desire? Or is that just the nature of nature, about which one does not ask questions?
J. M. Coetzee
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To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
Yann Martel
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I worked as a telemarketer for an SAT-prep company. That was the worst of it, because I had to call people in post-Katrina New Orleans and offer them this very, very expensive SAT class. And I'm not even a good salesman.
Kate McKinnon
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The arc of the American story is long, it is bumpy and uncertain, but it always bends toward a more perfect union.
Jeh Johnson
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The thing is to let life assault you, make yourself as defenseless as you can. If it bruises you, don't protest. Love your fate.
Brian Morton
