Life Quotes
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If you see me in the street - look away, 'cause I don't want to ever catch you looking at me, Mr Clean.'Cause I hate you and your wife, and if I get the chance I'll fuck up your life.
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All my life I have been acutely aware of a contradiction in the very nature of my existence. For forty-five years I struggled to resolve this dilemma by writing plays and novels. The more I wrote, the more I realized mere words were not enough. So I found another form of expression.
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A lot of women seem to think the way to ingratiate themselves is to put down other women or backstab. That's the quickest way to be eliminated from my life - try that with me, and you're out.
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Then in my heart a fear Cried out, 'A life - why, beautiful, why dead!' It was a mite that held itself most dear, So small I could have drowned it with a tear.
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I've got a vibe going on with a lot of what I've been doing, and to completely change it based off of me having a child might be a little confusing. I'm sure as my life goes forward, and she starts growing up, there will be a lot more things to include in my music. But, at this point, I'm just sticking to what I do.
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Many people who gain recognition and fame shape their lives by overcoming seemingly insurmountable obstacles, only to be catapulted into new social realities over which they have less control and manage badly. Indeed, the annals of the famous and infamous are strewn with individuals who were both architects and victims of their life courses.
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Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.
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One of the sweetest things in life: a letter from a friend.
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Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves.
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Prayer is to the Christian what breath is to life, yet no duty of the Christian is so neglected.
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When life is too much, roll with it, baby.
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You hear about Broadway your whole life, and I learned what it meant to work on Broadway in 'The Phantom of the Opera.'
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I just love the idea that people disappear into the story for a while. You grab a book, and you want to get back to it, and your life becomes a bit of an interruption. I would love readers to feel like that.
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We all have regrets, but the thing is to learn from life.
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I promised myself a long time ago that I would lead an interesting life.
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I find life a mix of humor and pathos, and all my books reflect that to one degree or another.
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I want to create a body of work that is entertaining and speaks to people for a long time. Longer than my life span.
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If you set out to do something and you give it your all and it doesn't work out, be willing to modify your goal slightly. Have the ability to look in another direction. A small shift could guide you to the real purposes of your life.
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It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.
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I majored in Chinese. I was never really good at Chinese but I really, really benefited from having been exposed to Asian philosophy early in my life.
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I enjoy my life.
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We are cyborgs already. If you learn to read, it causes permanent changes to the structure of your brain for your entire life.
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All life on Earth is subject to the rumbles and rockings of the parent stucture which has no control over the disastrous effects of its stresses and strains on whatever thrives on its surface. The ambitions and dreams of men are irrelevant to this planetary giant which pursues its own way in its own manner. Man is its child, tenant and still, to this date, its captive.
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What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.
