Clifford Odets Quotes
...life is lonely, life is empty. Love isn't everything. A dear true friend is more than love-the serge outlasts the silk.
Clifford Odets
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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
Victor Hugo
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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
Edmund Hillary
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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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Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Yanis Varoufakis
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There's more to life than cheek bones.
Kate Winslet
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Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement.
Otto Weininger
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
D. H. Lawrence
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What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.
Barbara De Angelis
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When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.
Laura Linney
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Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.
Gale Sayers
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Our work for human dignity is often lonely, and almost always an uphill climb. At times, our efforts are misunderstood, and we are mistaken for the enemy. There has been a clear erosion of respect for U.N. blue and our impartiality.
Ban Ki-moon
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All my life, people have asked me what I was so mad about. 'Why you so mad?' And I was never mad. I'm not mad, I just look mad.
M. C. Gainey
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I think people have turned terrorists into these larger-than-life devils and so are unable to write about them in the obvious way, which is as human, petty, bumbling.
Karan Mahajan
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Conservation is not merely a thing to be enshrined in outdoor museums, but a way of living on land.
Aldo Leopold
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And this is something I must accept - even if, like acid on metal, it is slowly corroding me inside.
Tabitha Suzuma
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
D. H. Lawrence
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Over all crowds there seems to float a vague distress, an atmosphere of pervasive melancholy, as if any large gathering of people creates an aura of terror and pity.
Emile Zola
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...life is lonely, life is empty. Love isn't everything. A dear true friend is more than love-the serge outlasts the silk.
Clifford Odets
