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"6076 Life Quotes

The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.

Language Prose Cinema Movie
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You can't quantify human pain the way you can measure out sugar. Death comes one individual at a time.

Measure Quantify Human Pain
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In all big cities the style of life is the same. Same endless array of restaurants; same big museums with the usual suspects; same anonymity, which can be thrilling when you're young but which I found got tiresome.

Cities Big Style Same
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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Passion Strong Life Pity
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A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

Report Accurate Understand Hear
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We didn't grow up with TV as a viable means of supporting yourself.

Viable Grow Beautiful Support
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Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.

Exposure Young Age Realities World
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I was so focused on advancing in my career that I didn't have enough emotional capacity for dating.
Career Advancing Emotional Dating
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

Burn Life Bridge Cross
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To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it.

Philosophy Study Age Chief
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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

Nobly Prevent Free Else
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You cannot amputate your history from your destiny, because that is redemption.

Amputate History Destiny Redemption
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Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

Labor Alive Conscience Little
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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Freedom Speech Dumb Sheep
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Words are much better at relating emotions and thoughts.

Words Much Better Emotions
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The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.

Moral Story Temporarily Fable
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Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.

Fiction Reality Interpret Volition
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I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.

Reader's Animal Suspend Disbelief
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xpect your friends to fill your emptiness. When you get married, don’t expect your spouse to fulfill your every need. When you’re an activist, don’t put your hope in the results. When you’re in trouble don’t depend on yourself. Don’t depend on people. Depend on Allah.

When Friends Fill Emptiness
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If there is one recipe for unhappiness it is that: expectations.

Recipe One Unhappiness Expectations
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We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right.

Time Creatively Knowledge Ripe
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Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.

Deeply Realize Moment Now
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All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present.

Negativity Caused Accumulation Psychlogical
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Thinking is a wonderful tool if it's applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you're dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.

Thinking Wonderful Applied However
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If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.
Inside Place Fall Right
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I have a great relationship with African Americans, as you possibly have heard. I just have great respect for them. And they like me. I like them.

African Respect Relationship Great
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Together, We will make America strong again. We will make wealthy again. We will make America proud again. We will make America safe again. And yes, together, we will make America great again. Thank you. God bless you. And God bless America.

America Proud Wealthy Safe
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his life. The very same worldly attribute that causes us pain is also what gives us relief: Nothing here lasts. What does that mean? It means that the breathtakingly beautiful rose in my vase will wither tomorrow. It means that my youth will neglect me. But it also means that the sadness I feel today will change tomorrow. My pain will die. My laughter won’t last forever but neither will my tears. We say this life isn’t perfect. And it isn’t. It isn’t perfectly good. But, it also isn’t perfectly bad, either.

Perfectly Attribute Causes Pain
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Don’t despair if your heart has been through a lot of trauma. Sometimes that’s how beautiful hearts are remade: they are shattered first.

Heart Trauma Despair Through
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I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

Hope Sex Clothes Appeal
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Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?

Elegance Wearing Forgetting What
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Even if the steering wheel fits, you don't have to keep gripping it.

Wheel Fit Grip Keep
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If one has no sense of humor, one is in trouble.

Sense Humor Trouble One
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.

Woman Important What Dress
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Animals don’t lie. Animals don’t criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do.

Animal Moody Better Human
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I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.

Country Extraordinary America New
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I like those touches of chivalry that are fast disappearing. If I sound old-fashioned, it’s because I’m as old as I am! But it’s just polite.

Touch Fast Chivalry Sound
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I'm so secluded. Very alone.
Seclude Alone Very
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People say, ‘But Betty, Facebook is a great way to connect with old friends.’ Well, at my age, if I want to connect with old friends I need a Ouija board.

Connect People Great Friend
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Friendship takes time and energy if it’s going to work. You can luck into something great, but it doesn’t last if you don’t give it proper appreciation.

Energy Work Great Luck
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A lady likes to be complimented on her looks, her eyes, her figure. But the personality comments are much appreciated.

Lady Look Compliment Eye
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Why do people say “grow some balls”? Balls are weak and sensitive. If you wanna be tough, grow a vagina. Those things can take a pounding.

Grow Ball People Weak
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I have no regrets at all. None. I consider myself to be the luckiest old broad on two feet.

Regret None Consider Myself
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It is important that you not believe your own publicity. Be grateful for whatever praise you receive, but take it with a grain of salt.

Impotant Believe Own Publicity
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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and, also, old films.

Also Cubism Films Happy
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Poiret made clothes for individual customers, but I wouldn't like to make a dress just for its own sake.

Clothes Customers Dress Individual
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I told myself repeatedly, 'One day you will be famous.
Day Famous Myself One Day
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When I look at the five thousand garments and then all this music hall work, I ask myself how I could have done it all. I was a phenomenon!

Ask Could Done Five
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I'm constantly looking for perfection.

Constantly Looking Perfection
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At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations for it.

Busy Complete Down Ever
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