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Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.
– Susanna Moodie
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Age shouldn't affect you. It's just like the size of your shoes - they don't determine how you live your life! You're either marvellous or you're boring, regardless of your age.
– Steven Morrissey
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Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore.
– Elizabeth Wurtzel
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Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
– Steve Jobs
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After reading Eminem's autobiography, which I did because I'm so interested in him as an artist, I respect him a lot. Even though he seems angry and mad, he's had to fight so many demons in his life.
– Taryn Manning
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After its hothouse incubation in the seventies, appropriation breathed important new life into art. This life flowered spectacularly over the decades - even if it's now close to aesthetic kudzu.
– Jerry Saltz
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Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world.
– Julie Bishop
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Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it.
– Bruce Springsteen
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Adoption has been a part of my life and a part of my family, so it was how I wanted to start. It felt natural and right to me.
– Katherine Heigl
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Actually, I started to become an actress because I met someone who was just a friend and I found his life wonderful, I thought, Oh my god, you can travel, you're free, you can do what you want, you're the boss. And then I met an actor and I was in love with him.
– Lea Seydoux
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Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them?
– Cate Blanchett
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Actors who are lovers in real life are often incapable if playing the part of lovers to an audience. It is equally true that sympathy between actors who are not lovers may create a temporary emotion that is perfectly sincere.
– Ivor Novello
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Acting is something I love. It's a great craft that I have a lot of respect for. But I don't think it's any greater challenge than teaching 8-year-olds or any other career. In my life, I try not to make it more important than it is and I just hope that rubs off on the people around me.
– Hugh Jackman
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Acting is a life experience. I'm always learning things when I'm making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job.
– Kate Bosworth
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Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I'd abused.
– Luke Ford
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Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.
– Felicity Jones
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Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict.
– Kenneth L. Pike
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Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.
– Jessica Lange
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Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.
– Potter Stewart
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A year or so ago I went through all the people in my life and asked myself: does this person inspire me, genuinely love me and support me unconditionally? I wanted nothing but positive influences in my life.
– Mena Suvari
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A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
– Washington Irving
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A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.
– Wallis Simpson
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A witness, in the sense that I am using the word, is a man whose life and faith are so completely one that when the challenge comes to step out and testify for his faith, he does so, disregarding all risks, accepting all consequences.
– Whittaker Chambers
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A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it, she knows the meaning of true generosity, happiness is the reward for a life lived in harmony, with a courage and grace.
– Suze Orman
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A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life.
– Jim Samuels
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A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together, in both the dark and the light - in other words, through life - registering voters as we go, and keeping the faith.
– Anne Lamott
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A trait which differentiated New York from European cities was the incredible freedom and ease in which life, including sexual life, could be carried on, on many levels.
– Jerzy Kosinski
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A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.
– Ellen Glasgow
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A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
– George Santayana
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A shady business never yields a sunny life.
– B. C. Forbes
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A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.
– Hugh Sidey
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A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.
– Diane Keaton
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A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary painting from the collection, the bar has been set pretty low.
– Jerry Saltz
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A saboteur in the house of art and a comedienne in the house of art theory, Lawler has spent three decades documenting the secret life of art. Functioning as a kind of one-woman CSI unit, she has photographed pictures and objects in collectors' homes, in galleries, on the walls of auction houses, and off the walls, in museum storage.
– Jerry Saltz
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A romantic comedy has to be funny and make you think about life but the obstacle that has to be overcome is key.
– Jennifer Lopez
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A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.
– Robert Byrne
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A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day.
– Maggie Gyllenhaal
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A plant-based diet has actually simplified my life in so many ways. For breakfast, I try to get my first serving of fruits and nuts for fuel. I'm completely addicted to coconut water for the electrolytes and hydration.
– Michelle Forbes
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A person that much interested in science is going to neglect his social life somewhat, but not completely, because that isn't healthy either. So one has to work it out according to one's own inclinations, how one wants to proportion these things.
– Clyde Tombaugh
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A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.
– Charlie Byrd
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A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant.
– Hazrat Inayat Khan
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A permanent base on Mars would have a number of advantages beyond being a bonanza for planetary science and geology. If, as some evidence suggests, exotic micro-organisms have arisen independently of terrestrial life, studying them could revolutionise biology, medicine and biotechnology.
– Paul Davies
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A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.
– Kemal Ataturk
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A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.
– Joseph Conrad
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A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.
– Albert Schweitzer
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A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
– Henry David Thoreau
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A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.
– Stephen King
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A lot of people say I'd miss show business if I quit. I'd miss some of it. Now it's the only life I know.
– Loretta Lynn
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A lot has been written about Tony Perkins and myself and I figured, Let's get it straight. I had a relationship with Tony for two to three years, but those are only threads in the tapestry of my whole life.
– Tab Hunter
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A life which does not go into action is a failure.
– Arnold J. Toynbee
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A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.
– Mark Strand
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A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.
– Ann Bancroft
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A life coach does for the rest of your life what a personal trainer does for your health and fitness.
– Elaine MacDonald
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A life can get knocked into a new orbit by a car crash, a lottery win or just a bleary-eyed consultant giving bad news in a calm voice.
– David Mitchell
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A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.
– Henry A. Wallace
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A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.
– Jean Ingelow
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A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
– Bertrand Russell
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A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.
– Lillian Gish
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A globalized world is by now a familiar fact of life. Building walls or moats may sound appealing, but the future belongs to those who tend to their people and then boldly engage the rest of the world, near and far.
– Jon Meacham
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A game one of my sisters will play with me in my first year of being alive is called Good Baby, Bad Baby. This consists of being told I am a good baby until I smile and laugh, then being told I am a bad baby until I burst into tears. This training will stand me in good stead all through my life.
– Ali Smith
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A few years ago you couldn't go from TV to film. It was like a 'no no' but I believe when you find a plan and purpose that God has for your life, there's not anything man can do to you. Especially when your faith is not really standing in the wisdom of man, you're really standing in the wisdom of God.
– Derek Luke
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A father is a person who's around, participating in a child's life. He's a teacher who helps to guide and shape and mold that young person, someone for that young person to talk to, to share with, their ups and their downs, their fears and their concerns.
– Michael Nutter
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A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.
– Walter Bagehot
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A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men.
– Jessica Savitch
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A dose of humility goes a long way in life and in politics.
– Ron Fournier
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A belief in God is vitally important, not just in show business, but stability in life. You know, to recognize deity is the most important thing that you can do. I mean, it comes to the Ten Commandments. They weren't ten suggestions. They were Ten Commandments.
– Donny Osmond
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A basic rule of life for reporters is that you should spend your time talking with and learning about people who are not sending you press releases, rather than those who are.
– James Fallows
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A band is not a marriage. There are no oaths of allegiance. If you feel your life will be better served by splitting up the group, you've got to do it - but of course it does cause problems.
– Steve Winwood
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A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
– Carl Sandburg
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51st State was one that I loved doing because the character was so out there, and in a way I was sad to leave the character behind. I'm afraid I could never be that cool in real life!
– Emily Mortimer
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'The Purpose-Driven Life' is not just a mega-bestselling work of Christian faith it is the thing that every voter, secular or not, yearns for.
– Eric Liu
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'The Killing' has a really great combination of qualities: Even though it's very sad and deals with mourning and grief, it's still exciting. It's about real people and it doesn't shy from the painful points of life.
– Joel Kinnaman
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'Thank you power' is writing down the moments that are good in your life so that you can go back and reflect on them - so you've got this sort of repository of good stuff in your past.
– Deborah Norville
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'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
– William James
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'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being the difference between sanity and insanity the meaning of life and death what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.
– Michael Sheen
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'Eyes Wide Open' took shape from two real life events straight from my own past. One was the sad suicide of my young nephew, a troubled kid, who was found at the bottom of a landmark cliff in central California. The second was a chance encounter forty years ago with none other than, ahem, Charles Manson!
– Andrew Gross
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'Allen Gregory' came about because we wanted an animated show and we were just tossing around some ideas about me playing a 7-year-old. We thought that would be cool, because we couldn't do that in real life.
– Jonah Hill
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'A Bug's Life' is a really funny movie and the characters have such different personalities. The movie is happy and then gets really sad and I'm like, W'hoa, I'm feeling this way and this movie is about bugs!'
– Booboo Stewart
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Stop looking for a partner. Focus on your goals and rebuilding your life. The right person will eventually find their way to you.
– Robert Tew
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Sometimes you have to love people from a distance and give them the space and time to get their minds right before you let them back into your life.
– Robert Tew
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You will learn to make better decisions in life with experience and time.
– Robert Tew
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Life is short and unpredictable. Don't waste another minute on people, places and things that don't make you happy.
– Robert Tew
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Don’t live your life with anger and hate in your heart as you will only be hurting yourself more than the people you hate.
– Robert Tew
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If you don't value yourself, you're not going to draw valuable things into your life.
– Robert Tew
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Sometimes you need to be alone in order to reflect on life. Take time out to take care of yourself. You deserve it.
– Robert Tew
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It’s a lot harder to get someone out of your life than it is to let them in, so take your time!
– Robert Tew
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Create space in your life for people who deserve it.
– Robert Tew
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I’m sorry I changed… life forced me to grow.
– Robert Tew
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Stop fighting yourself and accept where you are in life. Let this time in your life motivate you to let go of all of the things that are holding you back.
– Robert Tew
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To be happy, you must let go of all the negative beliefs, emotions and people that are holding you back in life.
– Robert Tew
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Life will get much better when you stop caring about what everyone thinks, and start to actually live for yourself.
– Robert Tew
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Left-wing social policies sicken our behavior and corrupt our culture. People bend principles and sacrifice integrity to get as much as they can from the government. Giveaway programs encourage every imaginable sort of cheating and dishonesty. Wheeling and dealing in food stamps is a way of life. Lying and fraud are commonplace. Whenever you're dependent on the money, the end justifies the means.
– James Cook
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Liberals fostered the subsidies that have converted so many citizens to helplessness. They have made high taxes and big government a way of life. They have corrupted the politicians into believing that in order to be elected to office, they must dispense benefits.
– James Cook
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At times life becomes too busy for religious thoughts.
– James Cook
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The most practical information about life is sneered at by social planners.
– James Cook
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That which you worry about most in life is seldom bad, and that likely applies to dying.
– James Cook
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Nothing in life is guaranteed, including government guarantees.
– James Cook
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We have a moral obligation to be interesting, for our gospel is loaded with life-and-death interest for people.
– Halford E. Luccock
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