Quotes with life-rafts

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  • Burning Spear Some people see life as many steps up and try to forget where they are coming from, you understand? A little step in life on a commercial or a material level is a good step, but a big step does not mean a strong step - you tend to lose your roots - and if you don't be careful, you can fall.
    Burning Spear
    Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician (1945 - )
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  • Bill Shankly Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.
    In Sunday Times (UK) Oct. 4 1981
    Bill Shankly
    Scottish football player and manager (1913 - )
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  • Bill Flores Someday, somehow, the leadership of Planned Parenthood will have to answer for their callous disregard of the sanctity of human life. In the meantime, I am relieved that the Bryan abortion facility has gone out of business.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Bella Freud Somehow, stars have a lot of class if they are done right; they never have a shelf life.
    Bella Freud
    British fashion designer (1961 - )
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  • Plutarch Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.''
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Bruno Mars Someone told me something that stuck with me: 'You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.' I've been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I'm just backtracking and trying to get back up there.
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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  • William Feather Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.
    William Feather
    American writer, businessman (1889 - 1981)
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  • Salman Rushdie Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet...Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Carmen Busquets Sometimes I make it to parties and sometimes I don't. Social life is always something you can go back to.
    Carmen Busquets
    Venezuelan entrepreneur, philanthropist and investor (1965 - )
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  • Ben Harper Sometimes I may be totally arrogant, sometimes I may totally be the most humble guy you've ever met, sometimes I may be in between. But that's life. Who isn't like that? What's the big deal if I had an arrogant moment.
    Ben Harper
    American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1969 - )
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  • Brenda Ueland Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.
    Brenda Ueland
    American journalist, editor, and teacher
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  • Vaclav Havel Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • Carl Honore Sometimes it takes a wake-up call, doesn't it, to alert us to the fact that we're hurrying through our lives instead of actually living them; that we're living the fast life instead of the good life. And I think, for many people, that wake-up call takes the form of an illness.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Brooke Elliott Sometimes someone that is the 'villain' in your life, when you look deeper and you think of what their issues are and why they behave like that and where they came from - they become less of a villain and more of someone that you can understand.
    Brooke Elliott
    American actress and singer (1974 - )
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  • James Dillet Freeman Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.
    James Dillet Freeman
    American poet and preacher (1912 - 2003)
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  • Adam Duritz 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.
    Adam Duritz
    American musician and record producer (1964 - )
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  • Beck Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Ben Vereen Sometimes we look for those thunderous things to happen in our life for our lives to change or go in the other direction. We seek the miracle. We seek the parting of the seas, the moving of the mountains. But no, it's a quiet thing. At least for me it was.
    Ben Vereen
    American actor, dancer and singer (1946 - )
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  • Caroline Wozniacki Sometimes when you get to the press conferences, you hear you're going to play this person in the semifinals, and in the quarters, you're going to play her. And I'm like, 'Hold on a second.' First of all, you have to make it there. Second, your opponent needs to make it there. It looks easier on paper than it is in real life.
    Caroline Wozniacki
    Danish tennis player (1990 - )
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  • Benny Goodman Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance.
    Benny Goodman
    American jazz clarinetist and bandleader (1909 - 1986)
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