Wendy Cope Quotes
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A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.
Rachel Roy -
As a kid, I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today.
Daniel Craig -
When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
Patricia Kaas -
I think how Chicago plays a role in my life - it had such a role in my youth and the decisions that I made as a kid and formulated who I am as an artist early on.
Kaskade -
I want to love life.
Zoe Saldana -
Growing up, there were no families on TV that looked like mine.
Laura Harrier
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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
Langston Hughes -
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.
Wavy Gravy -
Eliza Factor's first novel, 'The Mercury Fountain,' explores what happens when a life driven by ideology confronts implacable truths of science and human nature. It also shows how leaders can inflict damage by neglecting the real needs of real people.
Floyd Skloot -
At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
I believe life is an 'experience ball.' You throw it at someone, it picks up their response... it grows. You play with that ball, learning what it teaches you.
Vijay Sethupathi -
Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.
Dalia Mogahed
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My view is that when in doubt, society should err on the side of life.
Mac Thornberry -
Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.
Victor Hugo -
I had wanted to place the Eye-in-the-Sea at an oasis on the bottom of the ocean, in some site rich with life that was likely to be patrolled by large predators. The first time I got to test the camera at such a place was in 2004, in the north end of the Gulf of Mexico, at an amazing location called the brine pool.
Edith Widder -
As a child I experienced firsthand the severe effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially upon women and children. My parents taught me the importance of education and that it was a key to improving an individual's life.
Naveen Jain -
I like to wear things that are daring but also not seem too avant-garde.
Usher -
I'd like 'Rookie' to be a helpful resource, but I never want it to be too prescriptive. Hopefully, it also makes the reader feel encouraged to think for herself.
Tavi Gevinson
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I've been a massive obsessive about jazz singers all my life.
Eddi Reader -
Lord Byron, who was writing the third canto of Childe Harold, was the only one among us who put his thoughts upon paper. These, as he brought them successively to us, clothed in all the light and harmony of poetry, seemed to stamp as divine the glories of heaven and earth, whose influences we partook with him.
Mary Shelley -
I wish that one of my children will be like the Australian guy from the Discovery Channel show. The crocodile hunter.
Shakira -
For most people, the major hurdle in grasping modern insights into the nature of the universe is that these developments are usually phrased using mathematics.
Brian Greene -
All of us alive are survivors, but how many of us transcend survival?
Joan Baez -
I like a quiet life.
Wendy Cope