George du Maurier Quotes
Life ain't all beer and skittles, and more's the pity; but what's the odds, so long as you're happy?
Quotes to Explore
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Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
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His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.
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Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
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When I'm recording my album, I want to be acting, or when I'm on set, I want to be making music. I guess we'll see how it turns out and which one overpowers the other... but I couldn't really see my life without them, both of them.
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My mom's whole life had been my gymnastics. We struggled to connect when I stopped.
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Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.
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My hardest thing was to let go, to be happy for everybody and just to enjoy. And go back to being what you were before you became an artist, and that was just a fan.
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If I could never work again and I could just listen to music and walk, I'd be very, very happy.
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I want to talk about jobs and health care and pension security and what we're going to do to stop the brain drain in Ohio and make it possible for our young people to stay here and build a life in Ohio rather than in Pennsylvania or West Virginia or God knows where.
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Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
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I will never forget my beautiful days with you in Shanklin, they are certainly the most pleasant ones of my life. Look, I have tears in my eyes just to think about it. I am furious to be here, it is the end of happiness for a whole year.
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My father's music gives hope to people and also inspires them to break the bonds of injustice and to be positive in life. I've seen that everywhere I go, especially in poor countries and poor neighborhoods.
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Here in California, it's living the life, going to school, playing sports and hanging out with my friends. But, when I'm in North Carolina, its all work, work, work.
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I don't deny my life-style is occasionally pretty wild.
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If you want to love your life more, you can begin by living and loving more of it - by zestfully living and loving every teeny-tiny, gorgeously-detailed minutiae moment!
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Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.
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My parents taught me about the importance of qualities like kindness, respect, and honesty, and I realize how central values like these have been to me throughout my life.
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He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.
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The whole concept of this band is to present the ugly truth about society – warts and all, and let the chips fall where they may.
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Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in producing an atomic bomb, I would not have lifted a finger.
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Living apart is hardly possible if people have children together. It can also be more expensive to maintain two homes. But then, it's expensive to break up when you live in one property.
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I didn't have to win, and winning wasn't important to me. Being world champion wasn't important to me. What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it.
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A pitcher's arm goes, and they're done.
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Life ain't all beer and skittles, and more's the pity; but what's the odds, so long as you're happy?
