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Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.
– Bill Shankly
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Some people seem to understand this - that life and change take time - but I am not one of those people.
– Anne Lamott
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Some of the things I think I learned from that were very educational as far as just paying bills - the basics in dealing with a restaurant like that. It was just life - the education involved in running the organization, even on a small level.
– Todd English
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Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.
– Jean Anouilh
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Some men like a dull life - they like the routine of eating breakfast, going to work, coming home, petting the dog, watching TV, kissing the kids, and going to bed. Stay clear of it - it's often catching.
– Hedy Lamarr
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
– Uma Thurman
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So, it's cool that, yes, Hal Jordan is a superhero, but my character is a real-world hero in her own life.
– Blake Lively
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So while you're an athlete, and you have that platform, what you want to be able to do is make it work for you as much as possible, because there's going to be life after sports.
– Stedman Graham
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So there's no such thing as work-life balance. There's work, and there's life, and there's no balance.
– Sheryl Sandberg
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So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.
– Allen Tate
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So often, I read scripts and am like, 'This would never happen in real life. It's not trying to be funny. It's trying to be serious.'
– Shailene Woodley
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So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us.
– Tracy K. Smith
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So much of our lives are defined by habit or what the guy next to us is doing, never wondering and knowing who and what we support with our actions, from the detergent Mom always used, to my favorite dish I make... A lot of my life is unexamined habit.
– Kristin Bauer van Straten
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So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.
– Laurence Sterne
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So much of life is luck. One day you make a right turn and get hit by a car. Turn left and you meet the love of your life. I think I made the correct turn.
– Loretta Swit
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So much about religion has to do with rigid, sacrosanct preciousness. I don't live my life that way, and I don't feel that's what Baha'u'llah teaches.
– Rainn Wilson
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So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.
– David Herbert Lawrence
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So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
– Helen Keller
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So it was just funny to read a script that was just similar to what had been going on in my life.
– Piper Perabo
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So if you're a robot and you're living on this planet, you can do things that you can't do in real life - things that you wished you could do: like fly like have a car that flies like have furniture that is alive.
– William Joyce
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So if you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready, and that is how I run my life.
– Will Smith
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So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in.
– Sean Penn
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So if I have two pieces of cake, do I have twice as good an experience as the first piece of cake? One of the things I've found in life is that the first piece of cake is the best.
– David Frum
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So I've seen life as one long learning process. And if I see - you know, if I fly on somebody else's airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn't in - 21 years ago, then I'd think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on.
– Richard Branson
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So I'm more at home with my backpack, sleeping in a hotel room or on a bus or on an airplane, than I am necessarily on a bed. It's weird being here. It feels like I'm standing next to my real life.
– Henry Rollins
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So I won an Oscar. It's amazing. I've got that for the rest of my life for a performance I am proud of. It nearly killed me. I am really proud of the film. That's it, moving on.
– Kate Winslet
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So I developed very early a massive inferiority complex, and I've told the story often about how that inspired me later in life to get involved in other things, because I couldn't out-do my brothers in sports, and it's a very competitive relationship.
– George J. Mitchell
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So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb.
– Alastair Campbell
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Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
– Brooke Shields
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Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful.
– Rashida Jones
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Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life.
– Yoko Ono
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Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink.
– W. C. Fields
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Situational unawareness in the private marketplace or on the battlefield will cost you your livelihood or your life. In the Age of Obama, however, such willful ignorance is a job prerequisite. The less you know the better.
– Michelle Malkin
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Since traveling is such a big part of my life when I am working, I like to vacation relatively close to home. Florida is a great place for me to go and relax. It's so close, which is perfect because it's the minimal travel time.
– Hilary Rhoda
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Since Hiroshima and the Holocaust, science no longer holds its pristine place as the highest moral authority. Instead, that role is taken by human rights. It follows that any assault on Jewish life - on Jews or Judaism or the Jewish state - must be cast in the language of human rights.
– Jonathan Sacks
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Since God is the foundation of my life, anything that streams from that can only be positive.
– Ving Rhames
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Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.
– Edvard Munch
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Show business is my life. When I was a kid I sold insurance, but nobody laughed.
– Don Rickles
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Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
– Carl Jung
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Should we find a second form of life right here on our doorstep, we could be confident that life is a truly cosmic phenomenon. If so, there may well be sentient beings somewhere in the galaxy wondering, as do we, if they are not alone in the universe.
– Paul Davies
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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
– Victor Hugo
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She's 32, and she has three children. She loves to be pregnant but she doesn't want anymore children in her life. So she decided to help another couple. And she's just been amazing.
– Cheryl Tiegs
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Sense of humor is important in life, not just in clothing. How boring to live a life in beige.
– Jean Pigozzi
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See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? Well, I've always had fast cars. It's not that. It's the fear that you're past your best. It's the fear that the stuff you've done in the past is your best work.
– Robbie Coltrane
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See, the 'On the Road' that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it, the bitter honesty, is in the original scroll version that came out in 2007 on the 50-year anniversary. Back then, there was so much post-Second World War fear that was imposed on everybody - 'You must live life this way' - and these guys were bored.
– Garrett Hedlund
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See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse therefore choose life.
– Moses Malone
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Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.
– Nathan Deal
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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
– Immanuel Kant
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Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it.
– Akhenaton
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Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.
– Eminem
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Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.
– Charles Spurgeon
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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
– Arthur Schopenhauer
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Right now, we have the most complex relationship with technology that we've ever had. Your regular person has more technology in their life now than the whole world had 100 years ago.
– Daniel H. Wilson
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Right now, I have some big dreams. But at the same time, if I get annoyed and harassed by the media, I'll just quit. I don't care. We're set for life. I have quite a temper.
– Anna Benson
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Riches and the things that are necessary in life are not evil in themselves. And all of us face cares and troubles in this life. The sin comes in the time and energy we spend in pursuing these things, at the expense of neglecting Christ.
– David Wilkerson
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Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the moment for our evolution, and gives us the best advantage for the development of ourselves.
– Edward Bach
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Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.
– Norman Cousins
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Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that?
– Marilyn Monroe
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Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
– Steve Jobs
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Religion is not a department of life it is something that enters into the whole of it.
– Alan Watts
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Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.
– John Updike
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Religion doesn't play any part in my life in terms of how I live my life. But I don't think I've ever gone through a day in my life without hearing someone say the word 'Jew' or saying it myself.
– Larry David
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Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.
– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Regardless of Bill Clinton's politics or personal life, he grew up in obscurity and was elected to the presidency - twice. Don't take that away from him, because then you take it away from every other kid in America sitting out there in a school bus with a big dream.
– Mike Huckabee
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Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
– Ice T
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Really, every woman is an example to me, because as women we go through so much pain. We have to live this perfect life when we are messed up inside. We all go through trials and tribulations.
– Mary J. Blige
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Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to people's knowledge of those characters.
– Derek Jacobi
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Ray had so much love of life and the music. He had so much integrity. He treated the music with so much dignity and respect. I spent four and a half years as a sideman with Ray Brown's trio. Music was his life, more so than anyone I could mention.
– Benny Green
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Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, should be, and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming and accessible, willing to tolerate and to teach, happy to inspire but also to be inspired.
– Greg Bear
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Raising children is an uncertain thing success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.
– Democritus
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Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
– Pat Riley
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Psychology is as important as substance. If you treat people with respect, they will go out of their way to accommodate you. If you treat them in a patronizing way, they will go out of their way to make your life difficult.
– Mohamed ElBaradei
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Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.
– Samuel Alexander
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Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.
– Samuel Smiles
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Probably the worst time in a person's life is when they have to kill a family member because they are the devil. But otherwise it's been a pretty good day.
– Emo Philips
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Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.
– Lyndon B. Johnson
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Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.
– Gabriel Byrne
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Praying privately in churches, I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was here and now, woven into this life.
– Lionel Blue
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Precepts or maxims are of great weight and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
– Samuel Smiles
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Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.
– Jimmy Dean
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Positivity, that's one of the things I try to spread throughout my company and really anyone I come in contact with. Because as you know, life's too short. You got to keep it positive and keep it fun.
– Jose Garces
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Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.
– Martin Scorsese
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Politics is not my life. I have a career in radio and another career in film.
– Jesse Ventura
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Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.
– Franz Grillparzer
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Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket you put your life into it and make something out of that.
– Mary Oliver
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Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.
– Erica Jong
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Poetry is life distilled.
– Gwendolyn Brooks
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Poetry is at the centre of my life, too, emotionally speaking, and intellectually speaking - it's just that I'm one of those people who enjoy doing other stuff as well.
– Andrew Motion
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Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.
– Lucille Clifton
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Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.
– John Drinkwater
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Poetry can't cure cancer, but it can save your life until you die.
– Maurice Saatchi
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Poetry a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.
– Matthew Arnold
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Picking a best friend who stands up for what she believes in, is true to herself and allows you to be yourself without judgement of how 'cool' you are? Well, now you're picking a friend for life.
– Renee Olstead
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Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
– Carl Sagan
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Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
– Ben Stein
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Personal law is simply the thought that controls your mind and your life more than any other thought. Finding that thought is the most valuable knowledge that you can have about yourself. It is like the leverage on personal change. It enables you to change very efficiently.
– Leonard Orr
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