Marguerite Young Quotes
Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism.
Quotes to Explore
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I can't just say one time of the year I'm going to do something different. I have to commit to a lifestyle behavioral change and just try to be a little bit better today than I was yesterday.
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The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.
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Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to.
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Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with.
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You have young men of color in many communities who are more likely to end up in jail or in the criminal justice system than they are in a good job or in college. And, you know, part of my job, that I can do, I think, without any potential conflicts, is to get at those root causes.
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Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that's worth it.
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I had grand visions of being in professional sports. But when reality set in, I went, 'Oh, OK. I'll just move to Hollywood and be an actor.' I didn't want to look back on my life and wonder, 'What if I had done this? Or I had done that?'
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There's a fine line between playing through things and sitting out. I was always on the side of, 'I'm going to play through it.' It's probably good at times, bad at times, but for an athlete to always try to be there and play through things, from a teammate's perspective, it speaks volumes. Now that I look back, mentally it makes you tougher.
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I'm not a supermodel. I make the best of what I've got.
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Medicine may be the lens through which I see the world, but since I think of medicine as 'life +', a place where life is exaggerated and seen at its most vital and poignant, I'll be writing about life more than I will be writing about medicine.
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Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.
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Commissions add up, taxes are a big drag, margin ain't cheap. A good accountant costs money as well. The math on this one is obvious, yet investors often fail to recognize it: Keep your costs low and your turnover lower, and you will win in the end.
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I think of L.A. as truly the melting pot. It's basically a mini-country unto itself.
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Slowly, ideas lead to ideology, lead to policies that lead to actions.
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Vitaque mancipio, nulli datur, omnibus usu.
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What else will you have? Nice banana and bacon sandwich?
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The Smashing Pumpkins was never meant to be a small band. It was going to either be a big band, or a no band.
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First the masters died, now their music is dying, because people only want to listen to pop, rock, and punk.
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The essence of life is to care. The beauty of life is to give.
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Small creatures die because larger creatures are hungry. How superior to this human confusion of greed and creed, blood and fire.
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Good education means learning to read, write and most importantly learn how to learn so that you can be whatever you want to be when you grow up.
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The painting never changes once I've started to paint it. I work things out before-hand in the sketches.
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I keep on 5 to 10 pounds above my jeans weight, as the ultimate no-filler-needed refresher, and buy a size up on jeans.
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Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism.
