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  • Alan Thicke My two boys were the same ages as the kids in the show. In real life or in between the breaks I was raising two kids off camera who were not unlike the two kids who were being paid to be my kids.
    Alan Thicke
    Canadian actor, songwriter, comedian, writer and television host (1947 - 2016)
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  • Elvis Costello My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant.
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  • Billy Corgan My version, of course, is not this flag-waving, let's all get on the Jesus train and ride out of hell. I'm not that kind of guy. It's an embrace that life is good, worth living and yeah, it's not easy, but there are more pluses than minuses.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Beverly Sills My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can't.
    Beverly Sills
    American operatic soprano (1929 - 2007)
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  • Billie Lourd My whole life, they said, 'Do not act. You need to get a college degree'.
    Billie Lourd
    American actress (1992 - )
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  • Bill de Blasio 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.
    Bill de Blasio
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Anish Kapoor My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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  • William Ellery Channing Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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  • George Santayana Nature is material, but not materialistic; it issues in life, and breeds all sorts of warm passions and idle beauties.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Carl Sandburg Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Abe Fortas Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.
    Abe Fortas
    American lawyer and jurist (1910 - 1982)
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  • E. M. Cioran Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Berkeley Breathed Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It's the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children's books.
    Berkeley Breathed
    American cartoonist, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • Carter G. Woodson Negroes who have been so long inconvenienced and denied opportunities for development are naturally afraid of anything that sounds like discrimination.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Aeschylus 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.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Carl Van Doren 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.
    Source: The Roving Critic (1923)
    Carl Van Doren
    American critic and biographer (1885 - 1950)
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  • William Wordsworth 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.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • C. Wright Mills Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
    Source: The Sociological Imagination
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Menander of Athens Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.
    Menander of Athens
    Greek dramati poet (342 - 291)
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  • Harvey Fierstein Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
    Harvey Fierstein
    American actor, writer and singer (1954 - )
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