Life Quotes
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The tasks of paleontologists and classical historians and archaeologists are remarkably similar - to excavate, decipher and bring to life the tantalizing remnants of a time we will never see.
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When you follow God's will for your life, you can see how yesterday's events prepared you for today's challenges and tomorrow's opportunities.
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I think everything in life comes in threes: heartbreak and all that. You've got to do the full round in order to learn.
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To be in contact with scientists, to become in a small way a scientist myself if possible, perhaps to cast new light on physical phenomena, to be able to uncover what is real and definitive, was my life's great dream.
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My life is fair game for anybody. I spent an unhappy, penniless childhood in Brooklyn. I had to slug my way up in a town called Hollywood where people love to trample you to death. I don't relax because I don't know how. I don't want to know how. Life is too short to relax.
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A piece of material has a life. You must never upset it if you want the material to speak.
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Southern women see no point in the hard way. Life is hard enough. So we add a little sugar to the sour. Which is not to suggest Southern women are disingenuous cream puffs. Quite the opposite. When you are born into a history as loaded as the South’s, when you carry in your bones the incontrovertible knowledge of man’s violence and limitations, daring to stay sweet is about the most radical thing you can do.
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I'm living life as best I can - but I'm not exempt from failure and making bad choices.
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'Grace' is basically a death prayer. Not something of sorrow, but of just casting away any fear of death. No relief will come - you really just have to stew in your life until it's time to go. But sometimes, somebody else's faith in you can do wonders.
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What is ugly about life is that it so often only provides uneasy half solutions that are so seldom pure and tragic ones.
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When it comes to your creative life and what it's going to take, you will do a disservice to everybody if you just dabble.
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It is often said that everything happens for a reason, but you must embrace the perspective that it's never a reason that is predetermined or out of your control. It is always your responsibility to choose the most empowering reasons for the occurrences of your life.
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The decision to use a pen name was nothing more than a desire to compartmentalise my life. However, I had not thought about an appropriate pseudonym, and since there's an abundance of anagrams in the novel, the idea struck me: why not use an anagram of my name? Hence, Shawn Haigins.
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Even though I'm from the Midwest, the majority of my life has been spent on the coasts where being gay wasn't really much of a conversation.
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It's very difficult to hand someone your whole life story to play, and you've never really met that person.
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I did learn a lot from 'Project Runway,' things I could incorporate into my own life.
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The only remedy against the malady of life is life itself. The bane is its own antidote.
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I never intended to become a data head. I could never have predicted it would play such an important role in my life. Yet here we are: My Institute on Gender in Media has sponsored the largest amount of research ever done on gender depictions in media, covering a 20-year-plus span.
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I can survive setbacks, I've survived a lot of setbacks in my life. I don't see them as anything other than the natural ebb and flow of life and politics.
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When moonlight touches you, it’s time for a woman to sit back and think, really think, about her life.
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If you want to live a big, spacious, abundant life like Jesus, especially when life gets difficult, then make the daily decision to believe God at his Word.
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A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
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My entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you have on a field. The sense of brotherhood, the esprit de corps, the focus - there being no past or future, just the ball. As trite as it sounds, I was happiest playing ball.
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Music is a very integral part of my life because I was born into a musical family, and it's not just a passion... it's everything for me.
