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“I'm grateful to be alive, because I really did not think I was going to be alive, onstage performing songs.”

Thinking Song Alive Grateful Performing Grateful To Be Alive

“And who cares what anyone here thinks? Enjoy life. No one gets out alive.”

Thinking Care Enjoy Alive Who Cares Enjoy Life

Source: White Trash Damaged

“I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.”

Thinking Giving Parent Alive

Author:T-Pain

“I'm just singing for the women who think they can't speak out. Can't a man alive mistreat me, 'cause I know who I am.”

Thinking Knows Men Speak Causes Alive Singing Who I Am Speaks Out Mistreat

Author:Alberta Hunter

“Most of us never stop to consider our blessings; rather, we spend the day only thinking about our problems. But since you have to be alive to have problems, be grateful for the opportunity to have them.”

Thinking Problem Opportunity Alive Blessing Grateful Be Grateful

Book:365 Prescriptions for the Soul: Daily Messages of Inspiration, Hope, and Love

Source: 365 Prescriptions for the Soul: Daily Messages of Inspiration, Hope, and Love

“Global warming is already acting upon us with an accelerated feedback and compounded effect that may be irreversible! We do not have eons or centuries or many decades. Most of us alive today may not even have the luxury of saying 'Après moi, le déluge' because we will be around to experience it ourselves. And if you think it will be 'interesting' or 'exciting,' ask the tsunami survivors if that's how they felt. This time the plutocratic drive to 'accumulate, accumulate, accumulate' may take all of us down, once and forever.”

Ifs Thinking May Today Political Asks Felt Interesting Acting Forever Alive Effects Century Exciting Decades Luxury Global Warming Survivor Feedback Live For Today Tsunami Irreversible

Author:Michael Parenti

“I think 'Y&R's future is contingent upon the ratings. Obviously, none of the soaps are kept alive for the sake of loyalty. It's all about ratings. It's show business. Period.”

Thinking Shows Alive Periods Sake Loyalty Show Business Soap Rating

Author:Eric Braeden

“If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.”

Ifs Thinking Should Self Light Suffering Mistake Alive Creating Insight Making Mistakes Concentration Impermanence

Author:Nhat Hanh

“Isn't it wonderful to be alive? You know, you can forget all about it. Then suddenly you remember, and think of all the things you can do. Here I am. I can walk around. I can talk. I can see things and remember things. I am alive. How wonderful!”

Thinking Knows I Can Remember Can Do Walks Forget Alive Wonderful Here I Am I Am Alive

Author:Sophia Loren

“One of the sadder things, I think, Is how our birthdays slowly sink: Presents and parties disappear, The cards grow fewer year by year, Till, when one reaches sixty-five, How many care we're still alive?”

Thinking Years Stills Care Grows Party Five Alive Aging Disappear Cards Fewer Sixty

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“The last song I recorded with [Hank Williams, Sr.] was "I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive." I remember thinking, "Hoss, you're not just jivin'," because he was so weak that all he could do was sing a few lines and then just fall in the chair.”

Thinking World Country Lasts Remember Song Fall Lines Alive This World Weak Chairs Last Song Hank Williams

Author:Chet Atkins

“When the whole world is writing letters, it's easy to lap into the quiet within, tell the story of an hour, keep alive the narrating inner life. To be alone in the presence of one's thought is not a value, only a common practice.”

Thinking World Writing Whole Stories Values Easy Hours Common Practice Alive Solitude Quiet Letters Whole World Thoughtful Lap Inner Life

Author:Vivian Gornick

“It is the first day because it has never been before and the last day because it will never be again. Be alive, if you can, all through this day - today - of your life. What's to be done? What's to be done? Follow your feet. Put on the coffee. Start the orange juice, the bacon, the toast. Then go wake up your children and your spouse. Think about the work of your hands. Live in the needs of the day.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Firsts Children Done Hands Today Lasts Alive Feet Wake Up Our Children Coffee Your Children This Day Spouse Orange Juice Toasts Last Day Orange Juice

Book:The alphabet of grace

Source: The alphabet of grace

“The principal thing is the question of how our culture views age: that old is ugly Just think of Rodin, how he dealt with people of all ages. I have the feeling that I'm alive, I have a body I can make it extremely interesting. That keeps me alive and vital. It's a kind of process of energizing myself by my belief that the classical tradition of art that we've inherited from the Greeks is a load of bullshit.”

People Thinking Kind Art I Can Feelings Body Age Culture Belief Process Interesting Views Alive Tradition Ugly Greek Load Principal Bullshit I'm Alive Energizing Rodin

Author:John Coplans

“One doesn't have to pursue unhappiness. It comes to you. You come into the world screaming. You cry when you're born because your lungs expand. You breathe. I think that's really kind of significant. You come into the world crying, and it's a sign that you're alive.”

Thinking World Kind Born Alive Cry Breathe Significant Pursue Unhappiness Lungs

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“Without the ability to think about yourself, to reflect on your life, there’s really no awareness, no consciousness. Consciousness doesn’t come automatically; it comes through being alive, awake, curious, and often furious.”

Thinking Ability Consciousness Alive Awareness Curious Awake About Yourself Furious

Author:Maxine Greene

“All I desire for my own burial, is not to be buried alive; but how or where, I think, must be entirely indifferent to every rational creature.”

Thinking Death Desire My Own Alive Creatures Rational Buried Indifferent Burial

Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“There is a force that controls all your decisions. It influences how you think and feel every moment you're alive. It determines what you will do and what you will not do. It determines how you feel about anything that occurs in your life. That force is your beliefs.”

Thinking Feels Moments Belief Force Decision Alive Influence Determine How You Feel

Book:Notes From A Friend: A Quick and Simple Guide to Taking Charge of Your Life

Source: Notes From A Friend: A Quick and Simple Guide to Taking Charge of Your Life

“In my later years I have sought to become simpler, straighter and purer in my handling of the language. I've had many writing heroes, writers who have influenced me. Of the ones still alive, I can think of E.B. White. I certainly admire the pure, crystal stream of his prose. When I was very young as a sportswriter I knowingly and unashamedly imitated others. I had a series of heroes who would delight me for a while and I'd imitate them--Damon Runyon, Westbrook Pegler, Joe Williams.”

Thinking Writing Years Stills I Can Young Language Sports White Alive Hero Pure Series Delight Admire Streams Prose Crystals Damon

Author:Red Smith

“We need a sense of the oneness of the 7 billion human beings alive today. When I meet people, I don't think about being different from them, about being Tibetan, Buddhist or even the Dalai Lama. I only think about being a human being. We all share the potential for positive and negative emotions, yet one of our special qualities is our human mind, our intelligence. If we use it well we'll be successful and happy.”

“Weird, isn't it Somehow in the dead of winter when its 40 below, so cold your words just freeze in the air, you think you'll never hear a robin's song again or see a blossom on a cherry tree, when one day you wake up and bingo, light coming through the mini blinds is softened with a tick of rose and the cold morning air has lost its bite. It's spring once again, the streets are paved with mud and the hills are alive with the sound of mosquitos.”

Thinking Light Song Lost Sound Morning Alive Air Tree Streets Cold One Day Spring Wake Up Rose Winter Hills Bites Mud Freeze Cherries Robins Tick Cherry Trees Bingo Morning Air Cold Morning

Author:Andrew Schneider

“More than what we say or do, the way we are expresses what we think it means to be alive. So the articulate parent is less a telling than a listening individual.”

Thinking Way Mean Individual Parent Alive Listening

Book:Whole child, whole parent

Source: Whole child, whole parent

“I think Elvis would be alive today, probably, if he had been allowed to mix and mingle with his fans. I think it was a great cross for him to bear that he couldn't get out and be with his fans.”

Ifs Thinking Would Be Today Alive Fans Bears Crosses Live For Today

Author:Minnie Pearl

“I usually say I might have a talent or I'm lacking a talent, because everyday, I must tell you, I thank whatever is up there or out there that I'm alive and that I get to do what I'm doing, and I think that sends off a lot of good vibrations in different directions.”

Thinking Different Might Alive Talent Everyday Lacking Vibrations Different Directions I'm Alive Good Vibrations

Author:Peter Stormare

“I can go back to my very first movie, Thirteen, and think about that exact moment when I saw Nikki Reed and Evan Rachel Wood do their chemistry read audition together. It just came alive. I was filming it with a video camera and I was like, "I know I can make a good movie now."”

Thinking Knows Firsts I Can Moments Together Saws Alive Cameras Woods Video Chemistry Auditions Thirteen Good Movie Reeds Video Cameras

Author:Catherine Hardwicke

“I think if I pick the right thing to spend my time doing, then time moves differently, because I really can get fully immersed in things and feel very alive and challenged, but in a good way. I feel a sense of progress.”

Ifs Thinking Way Feels Moving Alive Progress Picks Right Thing My Time Good Way

Author:Demetri Martin

“People just like the thrill of anything. Dangerous things and dark things are exciting. Like as a kid, I knew I wasn't going to get killed if I went into the Haunted House but you kind of feel like you are. And when it comes out the track the other side, it's like, "we're still alive"! And I find it really funny when adults get really scared because I've not been really scared since I saw Jaws when I was a little kid. I just think people like the thrill of it, they like to feel like they accomplished something, that they survived the movie.”

“Metallica lives in a little bubble. We just do our own thing. We're not part of any trends or waves or fads. We can just do our own thing, all the time. It's a great luxury. I don't think we were really appreciative of it until recently, and really understood that it is what keeps us alive. It's great to be able to have the freedom to run around and do all this crazy stuff, and at all cost, avoid making another record, just to piss our managers off.”

Thinking Littles Running Able Stuff Records Alive Crazy Cost Understood Wave Luxury Managers Trends Bubbles Fads Appreciative Metallica

Author:Lars Ulrich

“I think the story should always determine the visual approach. There are situations where you want things to feel alive and like life, and there are situations that should have some magic and the separation with the grain.”

Thinking Want Feels Should Stories Situation Alive Magic Approach Should Have Determine Separation Visuals Grain

Author:Judd Apatow

“I don't think about wealth. I get one thing in my mind, "How can I help people...come on humans...do something, you know. Let's wake up. Man alive...you're half dead. Let's do some living".”

People Thinking Knows Men Mind Humans Helping Wealth Half Alive One Thing Wake Up

Author:Jack LaLanne

“When you awaken spiritually, in fact, you can use thought much more effectively than before, but you realize there is a depth to your Being, a vibrantly alive stillness that is much vaster than thought. It is consciousness itself, of which the thinking mind is only a tiny aspect.”

Thinking Mind Facts Use Realizing Consciousness Alive Aspect Depth Tiny Stillness Thinking Mind

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“I think the closest thing I can come to defining what that vital thing is for me - is that there's a sort of soul-quality in writing, if it's any good. It has a spirit or an energy to it that is very integral to who the writer is on a deep level. It's almost a cellular thing. It takes place in the cells of the writing, and it is what makes it alive or not.”

Ifs Thinking Writing I Can Soul Spirit Energy Levels Quality Alive Cells Closest Defining Cellular

Author:Mary Gaitskill

“I think, with music in general, people just inevitably connect with feeling. The opportunity to hear expressed feeling. That's what has always drawn me towards music. It's something where, by connecting to someone else's voice, I feel less lonely. I feel more alive. I feel more connected to the world and to the rest of humanity. Sometimes a voice can be like a lifeline.”

People Thinking World Feels Sometimes Feelings Humanity Opportunity Voice Alive Lonely Connected Connecting Lifelines

Author:Antony Hegarty

“That is much of what I think the writer's job is - to slow people down. To give them the chance to notice the passage of time as experienced by others as a reminder of what it is like to be alive. Because we are most often distracted from that. Massively distracted.”

People Thinking Giving Jobs Chance Alive Passages Reminders Distracted Passage Of Time

Author:Adam Haslett

“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”

“I think the story only really comes alive on the set.”

Thinking Stories Alive

Author:Mora Stephens

“I do think that procrastination evolved in humans for good reasons. If you're trying to stay alive as a human being on the savanna 20,000 years ago, worrying about what's right behind that bush is a lot more important than worrying about what might happen three weeks from now.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Years Humans Important Reason Might Happens Three Human Beings Behinds Worry Alive Week Years Ago Procrastination Staying Alive Savanna

Author:James Surowiecki

“I say all the time that if you really want to feel alive, it's not through striving for yourself. If you really want to feel alive, it's not through trying to get more things or get more success or climbing a corporate ladder or getting to the top. Because, once you get there, you realize that you don't really find happiness in that. If you want to feel alive and if you want to feel peace and happiness, give your life away. Do something that is outside of yourself for someone else. I think that's the way to truly feel alive.”

Ifs Thinking Way Want Giving Feels Trying Realizing Alive Strive Corporate Climbing Ladders Finding Happiness Peace And Happiness

Author:Natalie Grant

“I think that people have some sort of vision that everybody is moving towards perfection, and that there is some sort of set steps or something like that that you can move through to get to that place, and that that's sort of the project of being alive.”

People Thinking Moving Vision Steps Alive Projects Perfection

Author:Ayana Mathis

“I think that the project of being alive is to be alive. So there will always be twists and turns and steps forward and steps back, but that's just your life. There is no sort of place at which to arrive, and I think that the more one focuses on an end point, the harder it is to get there. It's like the horizon, sort of ever receding, ever receding, ever receding.”

Thinking Ends Turns Steps Alive Projects Harder Horizon Twists Steps Forward Twists And Turns

Author:Ayana Mathis

“Noone knows exactly where thought comes from, but it can be said that thought comes from the same place as whatever it is that beats our heart.. it comes from being alive.”

Thinking Knows Life Heart Said Alive Beats

Book:You Can Be Happy No Matter What

Source: You Can Be Happy No Matter What

“A joyful life isn’t about others; it’s about the brightness that is associated with being alive. Your path to it is through anything that replaces thinking with pure flight, pure joy.”

Thinking Joy Path Alive Pure Flight Joyful Brightness Pure Joy Joyful Life

Author:Martha Beck

“I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.”

Ifs Thinking Would Be Alive Boring Tedious

Author:Paul Auster

“Why do I feel so exercised about what we think of the people of the Middle Ages? ... I guess it's because so many of their voices are ringing vibrantly in my ears - Chaucer's, Boccaccio's, Henry Knighton's, Thomas Walsingham's. Froissart's, Jean Creton's... writers and contemporary historians of the period who seem to me just as individual, just as alive as we are today. We need to get to know these folk better in order to know who we are ourselves.”

People Thinking Knows Needs Feels Seems Age Today Order Individual Voice Alive Middle Periods Ears Folks Contemporary Who We Are Historian Middle Ages Chaucer

Author:Terry Jones

“I think all of us struggle with how to keep relationship alive. And yet it can't be static either. It's never going to be how it was when you first met because you're not in that place anymore; you're not necessarily the same people. So, that's the struggle - you're trying to make the relationship move forward with the rest of your life and make it special and meaningful. And I think it's incredibly challenging.”

People Thinking Trying Firsts Moving Challenges Struggle Alive Special Mets Meaningful Moving Forward Rest Of Your Life Static

Author:Julianne Moore

“I'm a character actor. Nobody's ever seemed to think of me as a leading man. I'm 6'6''. I've got a big nose. I'm gangly. I've got crooked teeth. That's certainly not Brad Pitt. I'm still around and alive, so if they need older guys, I guess they're thinking of me.”

Ifs Thinking Men Needs Stills Character Bigs Guy Actors Alive Teeth Noses Crooked Think Of Me Brad Character Actors Older Guys Big Nose Crooked Teeth

Author:James Cromwell

“As for major obstacles keeping young Latinos from becoming filmmakers, I think our communities are still coming into their identities as storytellers. It's such an important identity to reclaim - it's how our ancestors kept our cultures alive. But a long history of silencing, invisibility, and marginalization has kept generations of Latinos from believing in themselves, from seeing themselves as agents of their own lives. I think there needs to be a focus on this aspect to help cultivate young Latinas to see themselves as cultural producers and defenders.”

“The talent, including the talent for history - and I do think there are people who just have a talent for it, the way you have a talent for public speaking or music or whatever - it shouldn't be allowed to lie dormant. It should be brought alive.”

People Thinking Way Should Lying Alive Talent Including Public Speaking Dormant

Author:David McCullough

“I think of great masters, like [Alfred] Hitchcock, for example, who works absolutely within this sensational realm. You feel like you can always tell what temperature a room is in a Hitchcock film because the people feel alive, they don't feel like they're just being filmed on a stage.”

People Thinking Feels Film Rooms Alive Stage Example Masters Like You Realms Just Being Temperature Hitchcock Sensational

Author:Tilda Swinton

“Infinite possibilities exist to create the previously un-creatable, think the unthinkable and do the undoable-it's an extraordinary time to be alive.”

Thinking Alive Possibility Infinite Extraordinary Unthinkable Infinite Possibilities

Author:Mark Victor Hansen

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