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  • Anthony Doerr Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I can take more risks with them. It's just less of your life invested.
    Anthony Doerr
    American author (1973 - )
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  • Fawn M. Brodie Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.
    Fawn M. Brodie
    American historian and biographer (1915 - 1981)
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  • Bobby Darin Show me any top entertainer or top business executive, and I'll show you a guy who has mapped out his life from the very start.
    Bobby Darin
    American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, impressionist, and actor (1936 - 1973)
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  • Donald Trump Show me someone without an ego, and I'll show you a loser - having a healthy ego, or high opinion of yourself, is a real positive in life!
    Donald Trump
    American businessman (1946 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Charles Dudley Warner Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.
    Charles Dudley Warner
    American writer (1829 - 1900)
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  • Emma Goldman Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Bill Paxton Since I was a small boy, I was always around the game. I don't play golf much myself, but I love watching it. My father has played golf all his life.
    Bill Paxton
    American actor and director (1955 - 2017)
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  • John D. Rockefeller Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.
    John D. Rockefeller
    American industrialist: founder Exxon (1839 - 1937)
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  • Sir John Davies Skill comes so slow, and life so fast doth fly, we learn so little and forget so much.
    Nosce Teipsum (1599)
    Sir John Davies
    English poet, lawyer, and politician, born 1569 (1569 - 1626)
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  • W. C. Fields Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink.
    W. C. Fields
    American Actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • Virginia Woolf Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Brooke Shields Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Brooke Shields Smoking... kills you, and if you are killed, you have lost a very important part of your life.
    Testimony at House of Representatives hearings on cigarette advertising, 25 June 1981
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Buddy DeSylva So always look for the silver lining And try to find the sunny side of life.
    Look for the Silver Lining (1920)
    Buddy DeSylva
    American songwriter and film producer (1895 - 1950)
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  • Brit Marling So at some point you realize that your life is not just going to start one day in the future, that you're living it.
    Brit Marling
    American actress and screenwriter (1982 - )
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  • Ben Vereen So be encouraged and dedicate yourself to your dream and if your dream should come my way one day then we will dance upon the boards of life.
    Ben Vereen
    American actor, dancer and singer (1946 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu So I think we should stay focused on the real problem in the Middle East. It's not Israel. It's these dictatorships that are developing nuclear weapons with the specific goal of wiping Israel away.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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