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“In the last few years, losing my father, going through a divorce and not getting some jobs I really wanted, is making me a much more interesting person, I think. This all really does feel like a rebirth, a new chapter.”

Thinking Feels Years Persons Doe Wanted Jobs Lasts Father Interesting Losing Divorce Chapters Rebirth Going Through Divorce

Author:John Stamos

“Technology isn't the enemy, it is our ally, but only if we adopt a new model that puts people before profit. I realize that we seem far from that model, but I have seen it in action and it is a beautiful thing. So I'm not willing to give up yet. Hope is the last thing to die.”

People Ifs Giving Seems Action Lasts Beautiful Dies Realizing Enemy Technology Willing Giving Up Models Profit Allies Beautiful Things

Author:Justin Sane

“Comely was the town by the curving river that they dismantled in a year's time. Beautiful was Colleton in her last spring as she flung azaleas like a girl throwing rice at a desperate wedding. In dazzling profusion, Colleton ripened in a gauze of sweet gardens and the town ached beneath a canopy of promissory fragrance.”

Years Lasts Beautiful Girl Sweet Spring Garden Rivers Towns Desperate Throwing Fragrance Rice Dazzling Canopy Azaleas

Book:The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and The Prince of Tides: Three Classic Novels in One Collection

Source: The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and The Prince of Tides: Three Classic Novels in One Collection

“Some people get tired of continual perception of the finite universe. They feel the perception of the universe over and over in variant forms is kind of an unhappy condition, because it doesn't last.”

People Feels Kind Wisdom Lasts Form Suffering Universe Conditions Buddhism Perception Tired Unhappy Finite

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Don't become a spiritual bigot. Don't feel that just because you meditate and you are striving for enlightenment that you are in any way superior to any other person. Be even. Be easy. You will last longer on the pathway to self-discovery.”

Way Feels Persons Self Lasts Spiritual Easy Buddhism Balance Enlightenment Discovery Strive Self Discovery Superiors Pathways Bigots

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Certain drugs provide brief excursions into altered states of consciousness. The problem is that the perceptions and understandings that come from these experiences don't tend to last.”

States Problem Lasts Certain Understanding Consciousness Buddhism Balance Drug Perception Altered States Of Consciousness Excursions Altered States Altered States Of Consciousness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.”

Knows Men Want Life Doe Lasts Forever Greed Average This Life Average Man Greediness

Author:Anatole France

“Love is truly eternal and lasts forever. It is the core of our connection and expression of life.”

Life Inspirational Lasts Death Love Is Forever Positive Expression Inspirational Life Eternal Connections Core

Book:An Hour to Live, an Hour to Love: The True Story of the Best Gift Ever Given

Source: An Hour to Live, an Hour to Love: The True Story of the Best Gift Ever Given

“If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!”

Ifs Love May Two Lasts Love Is Lovers Loyalty Jealous Loyal Fake People Two Lovers

Book:Medieval Lays and Legends of Marie de France

Source: Medieval Lays and Legends of Marie de France

“I just realized how long it was since the last album, and where did the time go? You know?”

Knows Long Lasts Albums Just Realized

Author:Jeff Lynne

“I was an optimist, a great champion of the human spirit. And I lost that for a time. I feel like I've regained a bit of that in the last few years but there was a period of my life in which I had a very low opinion of people in general.”

People Feels Years Humans Lasts Spirit Lost Bits Opinion Periods Lows Champion Optimist Human Spirit

Author:Jude Law

“First, you do a piece of material that begins and ends and has a flow; it's not chopped up as in a film, where in an extreme case you might be doing the last scene of the script the first day that you go to work, and you don't know enough about the character you're playing.”

Knows Firsts Ends Enough Character Might Lasts Film Cases Pieces Materials Scene Flow Scripts Extremes

Author:Jean Stapleton

“The first is last, and the last is first.”

Firsts Lasts

Book:The True Explanation of the Bible

Source: The True Explanation of the Bible

“The last couple of years have been a write-off, though I'm beginning to feel like a person now. My energy is coming back.”

Feels Writing Years Persons Has Beens Lasts Energy Couple Coming Back

Author:Maggie Smith

“The Indian economy grew at 5.5 percent, but if you look at the last 30 years - for example, 1960 to 1985 - the progress made by East Asian countries was phenomenal. In a single generation they had been able to transform the character of their economy. They were able to get rid of chronic poverty.”

Ifs Years Looks Made Country Character Able Lasts Poverty Economy Progress Generations Example Grew Percent East Indian Asian 1960s Phenomenal Asian Countries

Author:Manmohan Singh

“I'm thinking, 'Man, there's this whole other group of people that are attached to me because of my last name and my family's roots.' That's pretty cool. That's special, that's a lot of power and it's important.”

People Thinking Men Important Whole Lasts Names Groups Special Roots My Family Thinking Man

Author:Mark Sanchez

“I was this person with this weird last name from New York that no one had ever heard of. But my screen test I guess, according to him, was the best. So I got the part, which was incredible.”

Persons Lasts Names Heard New York Tests Incredibles Screens

Author:Mary Steenburgen

“There are things that I value now that I didn't when I first went over there, like Zen Buddhism, which has become part of my life over the last couple years.”

Years Firsts Lasts Values Buddhism Couple Zen Buddhism

Author:Matthew Sweet

“And books that were published in much larger numbers than Selfish, Little are hard to find. And publishers who wanted to publish my last few works have them stuck in limbo while new distribution ideas and legal issues and fears are blown away.”

Littles Book Ideas Hard Wanted Lasts Numbers Issues Selfish Stuck Publishers Distribution Publish Blown Away Limbo

Author:Peter Sotos

“When you're playing such brilliant music every day, then the last thing you ever want to do is try to write something of your own that's crude and not as good.”

Want Writing Trying Lasts Brilliant Crude

Author:Regina Spektor

“I checked to see if there’d been a really good book published in the last few decades. Then I started with what Cleopatra would have read, asking myself, “What can we know about her education?” It turns out to be a very great deal, and bizarrely, no one had written about that before.”

Ifs Knows Book Lasts Turns Deals Written Asking Decades Good Book

Author:Stacy Schiff

“We don't know how Cleopatra spent her days, but we do know how other Hellenistic monarchs spent their days. There has been a great amount of scholarship in the last 30 years about education in the Hellenistic world and women in the Hellenistic world. We now know how an upper-class woman was educated in her day.”

Knows World Years Has Beens Lasts Class Know How Amount Educated Scholarship Monarchs Upper Class

Author:Stacy Schiff

“As a small business owner for the last 15 years, when I think of what truly changed my life, it was my faith, a strong family, my mom did a really, really good job of encouraging me in very clear and discernible ways.”

Thinking Way Years Jobs Lasts Strong Clear Changed Mom My Mom Owners Good Job Small Business Changed My Life Business Owners Small Business Owners Strong Family

Author:Tim Scott

“Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?”

Knows Long Has Beens Shows Lasts Careers Know How Healthy Blessed Show Business Fickle

Author:Tamara Tunie

“The entire economy, of course, is locked in a down cycle right now. Last time we weathered this was during another Bush presidency in '90. We were locked in it for a year and a half and everyone came out of it.”

Years Lasts Courses Half Economy Right Now Cycles Locked Last Time Presidency Weathered

Author:David Talbot

“We are at last on the high lands of Mexico, the districts which at least three different races have chosen to settle in, neglecting the fertile country below.”

Different Country Lasts Three Race Land Chosen Settling Neglect Mexico Fertile Different Races

Book:Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern

Source: Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern

“It's like doctors can't save all their patients, but, on balance, Bain under Gov. Romney created well over 100,000 jobs, which is certainly more than has been created in the Obama administration because we're down over 500,000 over the last three-and-a-half years.”

Years Wells Has Beens Jobs Lasts Three Half Balance Doctors Patient Administration Romney Half A Year Over 50

Author:Jim Talent

“During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.”

Has Beens Made Book Happens Lasts Night Three My Own Cities Week Hotel

Author:Laini Taylor

“My boyfriend and I just got a projector, so we've been screening movies on the roof and projecting them against the wall next door. The last one we did, the theme was, "The Russians are Coming". So we screened Red Dawn and Top Gun.”

Lasts Next Doors Wall Gun Red Dawn Theme Roof My Boyfriend Screening Projectors Red Dawn

Author:Olivia Thirlby

“I believe we are in a world where innovation in stuff was outlawed. It was basically outlawed in the last 40 years - part of it was environmentalism, part of it was risk aversion.”

World Years Believe Lasts I Believe Stuff Risk Innovation Environmentalism Aversion Risk Aversion

Author:Peter Thiel

“I met Ellie Goulding at the BRITs. She's lovely. I've got a lot of time for her. I gave her congratulations and whatnot and she let me hold her BRIT. That was amazing - once I'd touched one for the first time, I said 'This cannot be the last time I touch a BRIT.”

Firsts Said Lasts Mets First Time Let Me Lovely Touched Last Time Congratulations Brits

Author:Tinie Tempah

“I will get to the truth, if not in Ukrainian courts, then in international ones. I will fight to my last breath. They want to put me in prison but that won't help. My voice will be heard even louder from prison than now, and the whole world will hear me.”

Ifs World Want Whole Helping Lasts Fighting Voice Heard Breaths Court Prison International Whole World Ukrainian

Author:Yulia Tymoshenko

“I'll tell you what 20 years teaches you - is that if one thing doesn't last something else will come down the pipe and to go from that and to do these films now.”

Ifs Years Lasts Film Teach One Thing Pipe

Author:Blair Underwood

“Last year in Germany at a town hall in Leipzig there was a game music concert played by the orchestra and some of the Final Fantasy scores were played. This year there is another concert scheduled in the same location, for game music.”

Years Lasts Games Fantasy Towns Finals Germany Score Halls Concerts Last Year Location Orchestra Leipzig

Author:Nobuo Uematsu

“There was an inquiry just last week about the new Bette Midler show, and I just didn't want to do that.”

Want Shows Lasts Week Inquiry

Author:Robert Urich

“I know who I am as an artist and I know what my sound is, but I wanted to know what I could do in order to take it to that next level. So the experiences I had last year of moving to California and traveling to places like Rome and Nicaragua where I met a lot of people just had a really big impact in my life.”

People Knows Years Bigs Wanted Lasts Moving Artist Order Next Sound Levels Mets Impact Who I Am California Rome Last Year Next Level Nicaragua Big Impact

Author:Kate Voegele

“It's just different today. Nobody seems to last too long these days. I wouldn't know how to get started today.”

Knows Long Different Seems Today Lasts Know How These Days

Author:Bobby Vinton

“I definitely shut down sometimes. I always just go into my own little cocoon and write, and I surround myself with as much music as possible. The last girlfriend I had, when we broke up, I remember being in a room for days on days on days with my music cranked up, playing songs like Kanye's '808's & Heartbreak.' That playlist just was long!”

Writing Littles Long Sometimes Lasts Remember Song My Own Rooms Broke Girlfriend Surround Broke Up Cocoons Playlists

Author:Tristan Wilds

“The next few years are going to be horrendous in the UK. The last thing we need is a Somali pirate-style raid on the few wealth creators who still dare to navigate Britain's gale-force waters.”

Needs Years Stills Lasts Next Force Water Wealth Style Dare Creator Britain Pirate Navigate Gale Somali

Author:Andrew Lloyd Webber

“Gym class was, of course, where the strongest, best-looking kids were made captains and chose us spazzes last. More important, it was where the figures of supposed authority allowed them to do so. Forget the work our parents did molding our minds and values. Everything fell apart as soon as we put on those maroon polyester gym suits.”

Source: Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace

“If someone gave me the chance to create something, I put myself into it. I just want to try to do something that will last forever and that won't leave people saying, 'Gee, it could have been better, it could've been this, it could've been that.'”

People Ifs Want Trying Has Beens Lasts Chance Forever Could Have Been

Author:Billy West

“You know, it's a different world now, but to skip ahead and really answer your question, only in the last five years did I find what I call holy maturity, finding the balance, finding the right person in my life so that I could live a normal life.”

Knows World Years Persons Different Lasts Answers Five Balance Holy Normal Findings Maturity Five Years Skip Different Worlds Normal Life Right Person Last Five Years Finding The Right Person

Author:Burt Ward

“The last thing I want my child to see is Dad running around in the middle of the pack. That would really upset me. And that would upset him. I would be embarrassed to take him to school with kids saying, 'Hey, how'd your dad do this weekend?' 'Well, he finished fifth or sixth'.”

Want Wells Children Would Be Running Kids School Lasts Middle Dad Finished Hey My Children Upset Weekend Packs Embarrassed Fifth Your Dad

Author:Dan Wheldon

“If any demonstrator ever lays down in front of my car, it'll be the last car he'll ever lay down in front of.”

Ifs Lasts Car Fronts Lays

Author:George C. Wallace

“Peter Wagner, my son, just won the Bel-Air Junior Club Championship. Parred the last three holes. One-putts, up and down. Us Wagners don't hit greens. We chip and putt.”

Lasts Three Air Son Clubs Holes My Son Peter Championship Chips Up And Down Juniors Wagner

Author:Jack Wagner

“No one I know of has ever had this experience-where you had to sit and wait and wait for a DNA test to come back just so you can write the last page of the book.”

Knows Writing Book Lasts Waiting Pages Tests Dna

Author:Joseph Wambaugh

“I was vegetarian for a long time, and in the last four years I started eating chicken and fish. I feel like it really built up my strength a lot.”

Feels Years Long Lasts Four Eating Long Time Built Fishes Chickens Vegetarian Four Years Eating Chicken

Author:Laura Wilkinson

“It just seemed like Buddhism, especially Tibetan Buddhism - because that's mainly what I've been exposed to - was a real solid organization of teachings to point someone in the right direction. Some real well thought out stuff. But I don't know, like, every last detail about Buddhism.”

Knows Wells Real Lasts Stuff Teaching Buddhism Organization Details Exposed Right Direction Tibetan Tibetan Buddhism

Author:Adam Yauch

“With AC/DC, we've always started with rock, and we've just kept it going. The critic's view is always , 'They just made an album and it's the same as the last one.' I'll have fifteen of them, anytime.”

Made Lasts Views Rocks Critics Albums Fifteen

Author:Angus Young

“In a relationship when things are really great you don't need to say anything and just enjoy the other person. Sometimes with a couple, it gets dark and you don't know what to say and that silence can last all day. Other times you don't want to stop talking because you don't want to lose one another.”

Knows Want Needs Persons Sometimes Lasts Enjoy Loses Dark Silence Talking Couple Really Great Say Anything

Author:Anton Yelchin

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