 There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew. Author: A. Bartlett Giamatti
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| As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow. Author: A. C. Benson
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| The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears. Author: A. C. Benson
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| When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory. Author: A. C. Benson
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| Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young. Author: A. E. Housman
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| No one's a virgin, life screws us all! Author: A. J. McLean
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| We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life. Author: A. J. Muste
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| There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting. Author: A. J. P. Taylor
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| I'm the interpreter. I'm the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained to sing and dance and laugh, and that's what I want to do. Author: Aaliyah
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| There are certain things I want to keep to me. I don't discuss my private life. Author: Aaliyah
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| There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself. Author: Aaliyah
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| Life is like an analogy. Author: Aaron Allston
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| The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business. Author: Aaron Burr
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| A film has its own life and takes its own time. Author: Aaron Eckhart
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| And I'm not so in love with making people mad that I want to live my life around it. Author: Aaron McGruder
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| I'm an actor in between jobs right now, so I kind of live the life of a 7-year old. Author: Aaron Yoo
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| Those seven years in the cloister were the key to my life. Author: Abbe Pierre
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| There are men and women still on the streets, and that's all they are saying Can you spare a quarter? I come from a crowd of people who were current on the outlook on life, who were social and knew where they were and had some input into how things seemed to be. Author: Abbey Lincoln
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| Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them. Author: Abbie Hoffman
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| Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person. Author: Abdul Kalam
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| We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them. Author: Abdul Kalam
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| I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence. Author: Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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| Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism. Author: Abe Fortas
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| I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe. Author: Abigail Adams
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| If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race. Author: Abraham Cahan
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| Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be. Author: Abraham Cahan
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| The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once. Author: Abraham Cahan
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| The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life. Author: Abraham Cahan
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| His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right. Author: Abraham Cowley
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| Life is an incurable disease. Author: Abraham Cowley
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| In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, 'That is mine!'. Author: Abraham Kuyper
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| All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind. Author: Abraham Lincoln
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| I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. Author: Abraham Lincoln
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| In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. Author: Abraham Lincoln
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| If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life. Author: Abraham Maslow
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| If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life. Author: Abraham Maslow
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| A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said. Author: Abraham Polonsky
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| Likewise the leader of any state has to do the same, he has to enforce Shariah firmly, for he will be held in account later in the afterlife if he fails. Author: Abu Bakar Bashir
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| Follow the way of life, which the Holy Prophet has shown you, for verily that is the right path. Author: Abu Bakr
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| Have an earnestness for death and you will have life. Author: Abu Bakr
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| Knowledge is the life of the mind. Author: Abu Bakr
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| Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is manifest. Author: Abu Bakr
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| I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities. Author: Ad Reinhardt
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| Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught? Author: Ada Cambridge
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| O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire? Author: Ada Cambridge
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| I have loved eight women in my life. I remember every woman's face. Author: Adam Ant
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| I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness. Author: Adam Ant
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| It's a lot of work and I also feel like I've done it. I miss comedy. And I also think that, from purely a logistical standpoint, that the day-to-day schedule on a comedy allows you to have a life, much more of a life, than on a drama. Author: Adam Arkin
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| It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life. Author: Adam Clarke
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| My life isn't necessarily more important than anyone else's: I'm just better in talking about it. Author: Adam Duritz
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| Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole. Author: Adam Duritz
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| They think my life is glamourous. It's not true. I obviously get to come in and do radio interviews. That's the glamour. But other than that, I eat and sleep and that's it. Eat, sleep and do shows. Author: Adam Garcia
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| I'm the first to admit I've had a sheltered life. I grew up in the country and went to a boarding school. It was all just part of the business - be nice to everyone and all that. Author: Adam Rickitt
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| Feels good to try, but playing a father, I'm getting a little older. I see now that I'm taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle. Author: Adam Sandler
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| I'm 31 now. I think I'm beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means. Author: Adam Sandler
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| It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you're living your life. I wouldn't compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it's about a man who doesn't appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that. Author: Adam Sandler
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| Remember kids, I have life insurance. Author: Adam Savage
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| We will not let terrorists change our way of life; we will not live in fear; and we will not undermine the civil liberties that characterize our Democracy. Author: Adam Schiff
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| In another situation, and in an active station in life, I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head. Author: Adam Weishaupt
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| Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery. Author: Adam Weishaupt
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| I do not ask, O Lord, that life may be a pleasant road. Author: Adelaide Anne Procter
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| Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys. It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life. Author: Adelaide Anne Procter
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| I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread. Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
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| It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts. Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
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| Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
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| Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. Author: Adlai Stevenson
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| With the supermarket as our temple and the singing commercial as our litany, are we likely to fire the world with an irresistible vision of America's exalted purpose and inspiring way of life? Author: Adlai Stevenson
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| Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient and taking orders is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's need to think. Author: Adolf Eichmann
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| By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise. Author: Adolf Hitler
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| Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise. Author: Adolf Hitler
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| We've managed to keep a spirit of fun, I guess, of urban satire and finding new and odd interesting angles to the ways of life to put on the stage. Author: Adolph Green
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| As you can appreciate over my lifetime I've developed a large vocabulary of sounds each requiring certain physical techniques often combined with a specific effect box. Author: Adrian Belew
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| Even though we work in the same field, we have an intense private life away from our professional lives. Author: Adrian Edmondson
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| I feel a little schizophrenic because my life is so totally different from here, obviously. And the French values are so different from American values. Author: Adrian Lyne
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| I'm a teenager, but I'm independent - I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone. Author: Adriana Lima
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| When I see myself on film it makes me smile, I mean making a good living doing what I enjoy is soo much fun. I just hope that everyone has the chance to enjoy life like I do. Author: Adrienne Barbeau
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| Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies. Author: Adrienne Gusoff
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| Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women. Author: Adrienne Rich
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| Life on the planet is born of woman. Author: Adrienne Rich
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| The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival. Author: Adrienne Rich
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| They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...? Author: Adrienne Rich
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| Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly. Author: Aeschylus
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| Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence. Author: Aeschylus
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| Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy. Author: Aeschylus
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| We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life in fair prosperity. Author: Aeschylus
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| What good is it to live a life that brings pains? Author: Aeschylus
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| Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length? Author: Aeschylus
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| Every day has been so short, every hour so fleeting, every minute so filled with the life I love that time for me has fled on too swift a wing. Author: Aga Khan III
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| One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late. Author: Agatha Christie
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| One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood. Author: Agatha Christie
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| The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years. Author: Agatha Christie
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| The ultimate umpire of all things in life is Fact. Author: Agnes C. Laut
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| No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently. Author: Agnes de Mille
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| Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone. Author: Agnes Macphail
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| Happiness is being on the beam with life - to feel the pull of life. Author: Agnes Martin
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| To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind. Author: Agnes Martin
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| When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection. Author: Agnes Martin
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| It's strange that the newspapers don't see a connection between their false revelations about my private life and my need for seclusion and security. Author: Agnetha Faltskog
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| When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it! Author: Agnetha Faltskog
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| The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people are gonna say about your life and your work. Author: Ahmad Jamal
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