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My whole life, they said, 'Do not act. You need to get a college degree'.
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My wife and family, to say the least, are the center of my life; they are my grounding. I don't want to sound schmaltzy, but they are my inspiration and you name it.
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My wife recently put me on a diet after suggesting (a little unkindly, if you ask me), that I was beginning to look like something Richard Branson would try to get airborne.
Im a Stranger Here Myself (US) / Notes From a Big Country (UK) (1998) -
My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis.
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Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.
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Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.
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Nature is material, but not materialistic; it issues in life, and breeds all sorts of warm passions and idle beauties.
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Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
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Neatness - which is grooming, after all - is definitely the most important requirement.
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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.
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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.
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Neither creator nor critic can make himself universal by barely taking thought about it. He is what he lives. The measure of the creator is the amount of life he puts Into his work. The measure of the critic is the amount of life he finds there.
The Roving Critic (1923) -
Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us.
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Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
The Sociological Imagination -
Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.
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Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
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Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.
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Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live.
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Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn't be here in the first place. And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life's challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.
Richard Buckminster Fuller
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983) -
Never in my life did I think I would be congratulated by Mick Jagger for achieving anything.
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