Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.
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Obviously, exercise is an important part of my life, and I think taking care of yourself is an important part of every individual's health care.
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Since Madonna is positioned as always 'cooler than thou,' we all are primed for schadenfreude if something in her fabulous life goes amiss.
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It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.
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Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.
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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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I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.
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Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.
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The right of all of our citizens to enjoy fair and equal access to housing opportunities is guaranteed by our laws. The U.S. Department of Justice is committed to fiercely protecting those rights in order to ensure the quality of life all Americans deserve.
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You get to bring your own sound system when you play an arena, all the lights and visual stuff, which I think is really cool. There's something about those old arenas, where it feels larger than life.
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Rap culture is interesting and different and has purpose but it has a non-romantic view of life and of social feelings. There may be a void in that.
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My view is that when in doubt, society should err on the side of life.
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'Big Bang' is unbelievable; I'm blessed, but it's not the only thing in my life.
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I missed New York. Every break I had from the series, I'd fly back to the East Coast just to get back onstage.
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What I learned from boxing and what everyone can take in real life is to follow directions, follow order. Don't give nobody a hard time.
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The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave.
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I have spent my whole life trying to prove that women can get into politics. I'd now say to them, 'For God's sake don't do it - you'll get slaughtered.'
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A legacy for me is being a piece of the soundtrack of someone's life.
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I usually plan to read a book for a half-hour before bed, but then I end up staying awake until 3 A.M. to finish it. Fortunately, my dog doesn't mind when I keep the bedside lamp on.
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There is a cyclone fence between ourselves and the slaughter and behind it we hover in a calm protected world like netted fish, exactly like netted fish. It is either the beginning or the end of the world, and the choice is ourselves or nothing.
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It's not that I have resisted songwriting, it's just not something I felt I have had to do. I've just not woken up and thought, I must do this. But I have often heard music that I have instantly felt 'I have to sing that song'.
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Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.
