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Quotes 821 till 840 of 1813.

  • Louisa May Alcott Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors.
    Louisa May Alcott
    American Author (1832 - 1888)
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  • Jack London Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
    Jack London
    American writer (ps. by John Griffith Chaney) (1876 - 1916)
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  • Ben Harper Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.
    Ben Harper
    American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1969 - )
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  • William Hazlitt Life is the art of being well deceived.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Katharine Hepburn Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.
    Katharine Hepburn
    American Actress, Writer (1907 - 2003)
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  • James Joyce Life is too short to read a bad book.
    James Joyce
    Irish writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Caroline Lawrence Like every child growing up in America, I read 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' and 'Huckleberry Finn.' I liked them well enough, but I didn't love them.
    Caroline Lawrence
    English American author (1954 - )
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  • Bethany Hamilton Like, with one arm I know I can surf, but competitive surfing can be really frustrating, and sometimes you don't do as well as you want to. It can be discouraging at times. But whenever I do get frustrated, I just focus on God.
    Bethany Hamilton
    American professional surfer (1990 - )
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  • Avi Arad Listen, my day job is also Chief Creative Officer for Marvel, and it's a very painful job because we publish a lot of books, and there are things I see where I can punch people out. Therefore, we have some new people now, and the kids are going to read our books.
    Avi Arad
    Israeli-American businessman (1948 - )
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in conversation.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • John Marshall Listening well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.
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  • Cyril Connolly Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Sydney Smith Live always in the best company when you read.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Bow Wow LL Cool J was a rapper-turned-actor, and I also relate to him because he was sort of a ladies' man and had a female fan base, but yet he's a positive dude. You never read about him getting into trouble or going to jail.
    Bow Wow
    American rapper and actor (Shad Gregory Moss) (1987 - )
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  • Brendan Gleeson Look at the Coen brothers. All their minor characters are as interesting as their protagonists. If the smaller characters are well-written, the whole world of the film becomes enriched. It's not the size of the thing, but the detail.
    Brendan Gleeson
    Irish actor and film director (1955 - )
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  • Marcus Aurelius Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • William Law Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.
    William Law
    English priest (1686 - 1761)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Love well, whip well.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Bill Walsh Machines aren't replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper.
    Bill Walsh
    American football coach (1931 - 2007)
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  • Ronald Laing Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.
    Ronald Laing
    unorthodox Scottish psychiatrist (1927 - 1989)
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