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The past should remain firmly behind one. The present holds enough obstacles.
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I feel blessed. To live an artistic life, it's a blessing.
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When I hug her, I notice she's still wearing yesterday's false eyelashes. Mom? You know those come off with a little makeup remover and a cotton pad?" I'm not taking them off." Why not?" I spent $180 on that makeup job and I refuse to wash my face until I get my money's worth.
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Extremists often derive their inspiration from literal interpretations of texts that should rightly be read not as Associated Press reports from the ancient world, but as theological and literary enterprises requiring independent intellectual assessment.
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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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I have always said that your work stays with you for a long time, and I try to get involved in projects where I truly believe if I had to do them again, I would the same way.
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When Daniel Boone goes by at night The phantom deer arise And all lost, wild America Is burning in their eyes.
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I've never used one word of profanity in front of my wife, or my daughter, or my granddaughter or anybody else's wife.
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It's true that a human being cannot control what happens to him. However, what we can control is how we respond to what happens to us, what we do with what happens to us. Even if the range of choice is minimal, there is always a choice. From that point of view, destiny is our battlefield. It's not a tragedy; it is what we do with it.
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This is unfortunately a world in which things find it difficult, frequently impossible, to live up to their names.
