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My dad was depressed a lot of the time, and there were a lot of things in his life that he never resolved.
– Juliana Hatfield
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My dad was an absentee dad, so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughter's life, and she deserved two parents, which is part of the rationale behind us staying married for 30 years.
– Samuel L. Jackson
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My dad took me to all the best rock and punk shows when I was growing up and music has always been a part of my life. So I'm very interested in the music scene and I suppose that's why I've ended up going out with musicians. Dave Pirner is still one of my best friends.
– Winona Ryder
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My dad spent his whole life getting into fights for telling what he believed to be the truth. Basically it comes from my dad-and he's screaming right-wing, so there you are.
– Thom Yorke
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My dad is a bank president and my mom was an accountant and they didn't think that seeking the life of a freelance writer was very practical, you see. Of course, I was just as determined to do it.
– Kevin J. Anderson
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My dad came out of the Roosevelt era and the Depression. One person and one party made a difference in his life. That's what everybody forgot when they called my father and other people political bosses.
– Richard M. Daley
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My brand is a demography-breaker. It speaks to all homemakers and women from all walks of life and all across society.
– Sandra Lee
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My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy.
– Judy Collins
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My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as 'an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.'
– Kitty Kelley
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My biggest fear in life is to be average.
– M. Night Shyamalan
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My big philosophy is: Try and work with good people, because the process is your life. That's going to be really, really hard. I'm glad I learned the lesson, 'Failure is OK.'
– Dana Fox
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My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. He would tell us about Greenwich Village and show us the 'Village Voice' and describe his life, but it was all sort of subversive and below the radar.
– Gus Van Sant
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My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.
– Paul Cezanne
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My advice would be to write what is most personal and specific to your experience or your life. And your voice will emerge and because of its specificity, it will be universal.
– David Schwimmer
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Music, as many people have said, is the universal language. Of course points are made which make you think about things, but ultimately it makes you feel. And that's why people remember more songs that have meant something during their life than films. They start to define periods in your life, and that's kind of the beauty of it.
– Scott Weiland
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Music will always be a part of my life. I love music and I don't care how many units I sell.
– Alanis Morissette
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Music is the soundtrack to the crappy movie that is my life.
– Chris Rock
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Music is the emotional life of most people.
– Leonard Cohen
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Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
– Karl Lagerfeld
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Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through.
– Lenny Kravitz
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Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor.
– Ray Charles
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Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.
– A. J. McLean
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Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Music is a part of my life all the time - on the plane, before matches, driving out to the court.
– Maria Sharapova
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Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excites them. I like the concept that if you do what excites you, you will be rewarded generously, whatever form reward takes, which is not necessarily money.
– Brandon Boyd
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Music and songs are written at different periods of time, at different times in your life. They reflect the feelings you have and to be honest, I quite like having positive emotions.
– Scott Ian
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Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.
– Orlando Bloom
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Movies have takes. But plays are like life - you don't really get takes.
– Chris Rock
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Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life.
– Juliette Binoche
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Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's life.
– Quentin Tarantino
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Movies are different from real life.
– Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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Movie acting is a great job for your twenties: You travel all over, you have affairs with people, and you throw yourself into one part and then another. It gets more challenging as you get older, and it's not just having a daughter, it's wanting to have your own life and be yourself.
– Helen Hunt
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Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
– Wallace Stegner
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Most technological advances in our life now come from serendipitous discoveries. That is a contraction of rocket technology and computer technology and atomic clock technology.
– Serge Haroche
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Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.
– John le Carre
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Most of the people I know who work out seriously do so because they have such an amazing outlook on life. To be who I want to be, I'm going to work out to be more positive, more active. It's proactive.
– John Krasinski
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Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is.
– Isaac Mizrahi
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Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license.
– Christopher Plummer
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Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother.
– Anne Lamott
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Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad. Kids lead a very private life. And I was a typical child, I think. I was a liar.
– Maurice Sendak
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Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively hostile to Christianity and that regards the destruction of positive religion as absolutely necessary to the advance of modern culture.
– Christopher Dawson
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More and more surveys in the US are indicating a change in values taking place among consumers, who become more concerned about quality of life, food, health and the environment.
– David Korten
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More and more political analysts and weak-kneed politicians are advising the historically pro-life Republican Party to abandon its pro-life stance for political gain. My first response is that if you cannot trust a party on the value of defending human life, how can you trust it on issues like marginal tax rates?
– Gary Bauer
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Money makes your life easier. If you're lucky to have it, you're lucky.
– Al Pacino
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Money isn't a major motivating force in my life. Nor is my profession. There are other things that I care more about than being an actor.
– Kevin Costner
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Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
– Samuel Johnson
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Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn't just a new livelihood. It was a new life.
– Paul Ryan
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Modern science cannot explain why the laws of physics are exactly balanced for animal life to exist.
– Robert Lanza
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Millions of young Americans have graduated from college during the Obama presidency, ready to use their gifts and get moving in life. Half of them can't find the work they studied for, or any work at all. So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?
– Paul Ryan
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Mental illness is the last frontier. The gay thing is part of everyday life now on a show like 'Modern Family,' but mental illness is still full of stigma. Maybe it is time for that to change.
– Eric McCormack
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Mental agitations and eating cares are more injurious to health, and destructive of life, than is commonly imagined, and could their effects be collected, would make no inconsiderable figure in the bills of mortality.
– William Falconer
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Men don't even ask me out. I can't remember the last time I was asked out on a date, and I'm talking years here. I spend my life more and more alone.
– Anna Nicole Smith
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Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
– Ezra Pound
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Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of getting food on the table, making sure everybody's socks match, the soccer gear is ready. I admire idealists, but they're usually enabled by someone who holds the tether on their balloon, who pays the bills and sweeps up after them.
– Geraldine Brooks
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Men and women of every faith and good people with none at all sincerely strive to do right and lead a purpose-driven life.
– Mitt Romney
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Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.
– Andre Maurois
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Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life.
– Robin Hayes
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Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It's like the ultimate rest. It's better than the best sleep you've ever had. It's a quieting of the mind. It sharpens everything, especially your appreciation of your surroundings. It keeps life fresh.
– Hugh Jackman
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Meat is a big deal in my life. I do love breakfast food, but I don't think that's extraordinary. I'm a normal American. We love eggs and meat and potatoes and gravy.
– Nick Offerman
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Maybe you will be afraid and maybe you will fail, but the courage to take risks in any part of your life is, I feel, a very worthwhile way to live.
– Emile Hirsch
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May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.
– Ralph Thomas Walker
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Mary Tyler Moore was a working woman whose story lines were not always about dating and men. They were about work friendships and relationships, which is what I feel my adult life has mostly been about.
– Tina Fey
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Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know, and feel, that your life is but a dream.
– Donald G. Mitchell
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Marriage, at this point in my life? I'm not interested in it. Yet. Maybe later when I'm 35 or 40.
– Amanda Seyfried
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Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
– Robert Louis Stevenson
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Marriage is a lot of things - a source of love, security, the joy of children, but it's also an interpersonal battlefield, and it's not hard to see why: Take two disparate people, toss them together in often-confined quarters, add the stresses of money and kids - now lather, rinse, repeat for the rest of your natural life. What could go wrong?
– Jeffrey Kluger
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Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other's point of view?
– William Shatner
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Marriage encourages the men and women who together create life to unite in a bond for the protection of children.
– Jack Kingston
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Marriage equality changed life for people.
– Andrew Cuomo
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March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.
– Khalil Gibran
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Many of the mainstream agricultural scientists, especially at the agricultural schools, but at all of our major universities, are tied into all sorts of contractual relationships and consulting relationships with the life science companies.
– Jeremy Rifkin
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Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the warm big heart that dwells within such a rough exterior.
– Henry Ossawa Tanner
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Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don't know how to buy a house or a car or health insurance or life insurance. They do not know basic microeconomics.
– Jesse Jackson
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Many forms, sizes and colors, I think there are heroes in sports, in life... It would be cliche to say my dad, my granddad. I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes.
– George Eads
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Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house.
– Bruce Barton
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Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning and life at that price is not worth living.
– Gilbert Parker
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Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman who had gradually ceased to be a Marxist, and a culture that was becoming more Marxist by the day.
– Roland Joffe
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Making a film of a work you've played for six weeks gives you intimate knowledge of the character. By the time you go in front of the camera you've worked out the behavior and life of a character.
– Linda Lavin
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Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun and joy. Without this, you will burn out in mid-career and wonder where your life went.
– Jonathan Sacks
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Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think about food.
– Peace Pilgrim
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Maggie Smith is an amazing woman, and not as serious in real life.
– Allen Leech
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Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life let us swear eternal friendship.
– Sydney Smith
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Lyrically I like to use themes that make the listener use his or her imagination, and to give a little of the lessons I've learned in my own life.
– Ronnie James Dio
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Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
– Marquis de Sade
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Luckily, my husband is my business partner as well as my life partner, so I never had to do the heavy lifting alone, literally or figuratively.
– Josie Maran
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Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.
– Alfred Hitchcock
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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.
– Merle Shain
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Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
– Elbert Hubbard
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Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.
– Zane Grey
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Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
– Madame de Stael
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Love is the river of life in the world.
– Henry Ward Beecher
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Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.
– Thomas Merton
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Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
– Emily Dickinson
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Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one.
– Stendhal
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Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Losing my mom at such a young age had a profound effect on my life.
– Molly Shannon
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Losing my parents was the most crushing thing that ever happened to me. I lost my dad when I was 26, and it changed my life entirely.
– Harlan Coben
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Losing both parents at a young age gave me a sense that you can't really control life - so you'd better live it while it's here. I stopped believing in a storybook existence a long time ago. All you can do is push in a direction and see what comes of it.
– Jon Hamm
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Looking back 25 years later, what I may say is that the facts have been far better than the dreams. In the long course of cell life on this earth it remained, for our age for our generation, to receive the full ownership of our inheritance.
– Albert Claude
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Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message.
– Charles Vest
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