Yann Martel Quotes
The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.Yann Martel
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My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.
Hans Christian Andersen -
The other deals with my life and my livelihood and my family and all that I stand for.
Rafael Palmeiro -
'Big Bang' is unbelievable; I'm blessed, but it's not the only thing in my life.
Kaley Cuoco -
Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims that never get tested, while their students derange themselves with weird ideas, empty rituals, and other affectations.
Sam Harris -
Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.
Fran Lebowitz -
No government, no organisation, no citizen can afford to be less than vigilant in combating bigotry, intolerance and hatred. And frankly, our way of life depends on that vigilance.
Barry O'Farrell
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You must learn to take life less seriously and to laugh.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -
I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
Candice Bergen -
The fact is, everything we want or yearn for is won through other people. No man on an island is happy; he is merely existing. The joyous life is the one filled with rich relationships.
Vernon Howard -
I grew up in Oregon so I grew up around reservations, so I've always kind of had this knowledge. Not a tremendous amount of knowledge, but an outsider's knowledge of what reservation life was like.
Katee Sackhoff -
But you know the thing that I thing oftentimes gets ignored and neglected is there was 10 or 12 years of life before I met Amy and before she met me, where you know, whatever happened was probably going to happen some day.
Vince Gill -
The original 'Star Wars' that I was a part of really was the beginning of my working life.
Harrison Ford
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I think magazines and interviews make celebrities into this bigger-than-life thing, but I've gotten bullied over trying different things with my makeup.
Kat Graham -
The 'Dog's Purpose' premise has gotten me so many emails and comments from people who say that their dog is so much like one they had when they were young or years before, that it seems like the truth. The idea that you would come across an old friend later in life.
W. Bruce Cameron -
Life's there to make the most of, and that's what I do.
Patrick Rafter -
My life has been very lucky, but I made some of that luck.
Dan Jenkins -
Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.
Harold Pinter -
Having a child makes you realize the importance of life - narcissism goes out the window. Heaven on earth is looking at my little boy. The minute he was born, I knew if I never did anything other than being a mom, I'd be fine.
Jenny McCarthy
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The buzz you get when you're playing a song and everyone is screaming and dancing and what have you and singing along is incredible.
Aaron Johnson -
People think you have this exciting and romantic life, because you project this exciting, romantic life on screen. But in reality you're just doing the same thing as everyone else - you know, sitting around watching TV with your gut hanging out, playing with your kid, or even sitting on the toilet. You know what's weird? Even I'm not that interested in my personal life any more.
Ben Affleck -
The sensation of never feeling good enough or pretty enough will always be there. It's a constant dialogue, and you just learn to be more powerful than that other voice. When you hear it come up, you shut it down.
Shirley Ann Manson Angelfish -
The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.
Yann Martel