Joshua J. Marine Quotes
Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
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Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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I was always a real athletic kid. Then when I got older, I just figured it was part of life to keep training.
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I knew the moment it happened, it was a miracle. I could have been kissing her when she threw up. It would have scarred me for life. I may never have recovered.
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When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, inner life in which freedom lives. In which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
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I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.
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Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling.
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Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
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The only thing I'd ever wanted in my life was to be a major-league ballplayer, but I had to admit to myself that I wasn't good enough. It broke my heart.
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Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.
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I'm a big believer in living life as an extended working vacation.
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I like to try all kinds of styles so it always challenges me and forces me to try to look different.
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Until Eleanor Roosevelt, there was only one or two First Ladies in all of American history who made an impact, who people could even have recognized or identified. And it's really only been since Jackie Kennedy that there's been this idea that the family life of the president is such a central thing.
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Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
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Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball.
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'Thrones' would be the perfect platform to send a progressive message because right now, our politicians aren't telling us any truths. It's hard to find a good, meaningful message, so I think it's up to storytellers, television shows, and films to have an impact on the world conversation. Is that not what film and television is for?
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I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once. I am happy being here and all the things that are a risk I normally avoid.
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There aren't many things that are universally cool, and it's cool not to litter. I'd never do it.
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Fifty thousand people in Mexico have been murdered. Puerto Penasco, 60 miles south of our border, just had five people and a police officer killed. That is like part of Arizona, and it is spilling over into our state.
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People who are insecure about themselves will avoid social comparisons that are potentially threatening to their self-esteem.
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Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
