Lionel Shriver Quotes
Letting ourselves down in some fashion is such an integral part of daily life that the paucity of literature on the subject is baffling.
Lionel Shriver
Quotes to Explore
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Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
A. B. Yehoshua
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I'm involved in music and fashion a lot more than I used to be, so my style has definitely changed - for the better, of course. It's given me greater insight into what colours work, what looks good on camera, and what I feel comfortable in.
Olly Murs
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Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
P. T. Barnum
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There are very few fundamental shifts in global infrastructure that can happen in our life times. The financial infrastructure is one of them, and the Blockchain is changing the way we think about the transfer of value.
Adam Draper
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The planet will survive. Whether we get to be here and enjoy it, or enjoy life as we've known it, is what's questionable.
Ted Danson
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You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they're not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don't care about money, and that's not my problem.
Lady Gaga
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I didn't live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don't know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.
Lana Del Rey
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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.
Caitriona Balfe
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Fashion is not about clothes, it is about a look.
Carine Roitfeld
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The first time I ever recorded, which was into my boom-box, I was like, 'Wow, check that out.' It sounded great. The narcotic of it was so intense - it was pleasurable. I was like, 'You sound like a band.' Then I ended up spending the rest of my life trying to chase that initial high again.
Ian MacKaye
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Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesn't have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
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I just try to live a really simple, natural life, because obviously, life has an impact on your voice.
K. D. Lang
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I consider the world, this Earth, to be like a school, and our life the classrooms.
Oprah Winfrey
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My life has been a whole series of accidents, some of them happy, some not.
Randy Bachman
The Guess Who
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No matter what, you've got to always follow your passion in life and always keep learning.
Harold Hamm
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I like to look for patterns in science and life. It's what I do.
Patrick Soon-Shiong
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Everything I've been through, everything I'm about to go through in my career and my life, if my family wasn't with me and didn't support me, it would be really tough.
Karl Malone
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Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
Patrick Henry
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All Russia is our orchard.
Anton Chekhov
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For many, hair is just hair. It's something you grow, shape, adapt, adorn, and cut. But my hair has always been so much more than what's on my head. It's a marker of how free I felt in my body, how comfortable I was with myself, and how much agency I had to control my body and express myself with it.
Janet Mock
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They can always run stderr through uniq.
Larry Wall
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We used to get one room and we'd park the vehicle outside, everybody would all take showers and we'd steal towels because we knew we wasn't gonna have enough towels for all five of us to shower.
Buck Owens
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Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
Gautama Buddha
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Letting ourselves down in some fashion is such an integral part of daily life that the paucity of literature on the subject is baffling.
Lionel Shriver
