Quotes with life-time

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  • Karl Kraus Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Bill Clinton Advances in computer technology and the Internet have changed the way America works, learns, and communicates. The Internet has become an integral part of America's economic, political, and social life.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Bob Dylan Advertising signs that con you into thinking you are the one
    That can do what's never been done,
    That can win what's never been won
    Meanwhile, life outside goes on all around you
    Source: Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Bryce Courtenay Advertising was only meant to be a very small part of my life. I had intended that I would work extensively in journalism for about five or six years and then I'd become a writer.
    Bryce Courtenay
    South African-Australian advertising director and novelist (1933 - 2012)
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  • Bill Veeck After a month or so in St. Louis, we were looking around desperately for a way to draw a few people into the ball park, it being perfectly clear by that time that the ball club wasn't going to do it unaided.
    Bill Veeck
    American Major League Baseball franchise owner and promoter (1914 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein After a two-term presidency, many young voters seem to want someone who is radically different from, even the opposite of, the commander in chief to whom they have become accustomed. After all, a two-term president will have led their nation for a significant percentage of their lives. That's boring. Isn't it time for a transformation?
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Alan Alda After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life.
    Alan Alda
    American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. (1936 - )
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  • Joseph Brodsky After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.
    Joseph Brodsky
    Russian-born American Poet, Critic (1940 - 1996)
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  • Rohinton Mistry After all, our lives are but a sequence of accidents - a clanking chain of chance events. A string of choices, casual or deliberate, which add up to that one big calamity we call life.
    Source: Een wankel evenwicht (2010) 758
    Rohinton Mistry
    Indian-born Canadian writer (1952 - )
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  • Woody Allen After all, there are worse things in life than death. If you've ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman, you know what I'm talking about.
    Source: Love and Death (1975)
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Caroline Lawrence After I had written seventeen full-length mysteries, two volumes of mini-mysteries, a travel guide and some quiz books, not to mention a spin-off Roman Mystery Scrolls series, I thought it was time I moved to new historical pastures.
    Caroline Lawrence
    English American author (1954 - )
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  • Becki Newton After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
    Becki Newton
    American actress (1978 - )
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  • William Shakespeare After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Albert Hofmann After some time, with my eyes closed, I began to enjoy this wonderful play of colors and forms, which it really was a pleasure to observe. Then I went to sleep and the next day I was fine. I felt quite fresh, like a newborn.
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  • Abbe Pierre After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted.
    Abbe Pierre
    French Catholic priest (born Henri Grous) (1912 - 2007)
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  • Benny Goodman After you've done all the work and prepared as much as you can, what the hell, you might as well go out and have a good time.
    Benny Goodman
    American jazz clarinetist and bandleader (1909 - 1986)
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  • George Macdonald Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.
    George Macdonald
    Scottish writer (1824 - 1905)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
    Source: On his 85th birthday. UPI News Report, August 20, 1955
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Edwin Markham Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true!
    Edwin Markham
    American poet and editor (1852 - 1940)
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  • Susanna Moodie Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of to-day, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.
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