Claire Tomalin Quotes
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I received my money from the treasury, I used to very early to go the clubs, but when the burden of looking after my children came upon me I tried to live a quite life, and save as much as I could.
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You aren't your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family... your anything. You're a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.
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Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way.
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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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If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.
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The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.
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I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore.
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My life has been a whole series of accidents, some of them happy, some not.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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Our present moment is a mystery that we are part of. Here and now is where all the wonder of life lies hidden. And make no mistake about it, to strive to live completely in the present is to strive for what already is the case.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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I love karaoke. I love maudlin country ballads. In another life, I'd be Loretta Lynn.
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I've been extremely fortunate in my life. So I actually believe that I'm the living embodiment of living the American dream.
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I'm hoping that the administration and other thought leaders will succeed eventually in bringing the country back to the older idea that the American dream is having a career, getting a job, and getting involved in it, and doing well. That was the core of the good life.
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Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.
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I'm a part of your life. You might not know it, but I am.
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I had my freedom, and I had my comfortable life, but I couldn't accept the fact that the politicians were making it increasingly difficult for my kids and millions of others to achieve their dreams as I had achieved mine. So, in 2012, I ran for president.
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I think it's when I won the Youth Olympics I thought, 'I can really get gold in London.'
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Coffee and cigarettes, that's one of my weaknesses.
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We are not denying that Turkey has a right to defend itself from extremists but some of its actions are not serving any democratic purpose in Turkey or in Iraq. This will not benefit the relations between the two countries.
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Learning history is easy; learning its lessons seems almost impossibly difficult.
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As a matter of fact, we put it down because we wanted to be jazz pickers.
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Throughout his life, Dickens cared passionately about orphans.
