Too Short Quotes - Page 5

• The virtuosos look to the students of the world to do their share in the education of the great musical public. Do not waste your time with music that is trite or ignoble. Life is too short to spend it wandering in the barren Saharas of musical trash.

  Sergei Rachmaninoff

  Life Is Too Short, Musical, World

  "Great Pianists on Piano Playing". Book by James Francis Cooke, p. 217, 1999.

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• What was fun for me with this book [Lincoln in the Bardo] was to start out with the principle that went, "We're going to fight every day to make this not a novel; make it too short to be a novel." And then with that principle in place, the book sort of starts to say, "Okay, but I really need this. I really need some historical nuggets." And you're like, "All right, but keep it under control."

  George Saunders

  Fun, Book, Fighting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Life's too short to be a pushover.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Pushovers, Life's Too Short

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• Carmen hated the 'life is too short" rationalization. She thought it was one of the lamer excuses in the history of excuse-making. Whenever you did something because "life is too short not to," you could be sure life would be just long enough to punish you for it.

  Ann Brashares

  Life Is Too Short, Long, Would Be

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• I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Talking, Judgment, I Realized

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• I hate all those flirty-birty games that women make up. Life's too short. If you ever find a man you love, don't waste time hanging your head and simpering. Go right up to him and say, 'I love you. How about getting married?

  Betty Smith

  Flirty, Hate, Love You

  BETTY SMITH (1947). “A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN MAGGIE NOW”

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• I met my husband, Will Smith, when I was 19 and auditioned to be his date on 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.' They said I was too short to play the part.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Husband, Air, Play

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• Something my mum taught me years and years and years ago, is life's just too short to carry around a great bucket-load of anger and resentment and bitterness and hatreds and all that sort of stuff.

  Kevin Rudd

  Anger, Years, Hatred

  "Late Night Live" with Phillip Adams, www.abc.net.au. August 4, 2010.

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• Originally I had a fear of rejection at the auditions, which is a lack of self-confidence ultimately. Now I have a production company and when you can look behind the scenes at the casting process, you know it's not about rejection. It might have been the most amazing performance ever, but if the person is too tall, too short, too brown, too white, has blond hair or whatever it is, then not getting the gig may have nothing to do with the performance. You have to learn to treat auditioning as matter-of-factly as drinking a glass of water.

  Kurt Yaeger

  Drinking, Water, Rejection

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• Come and see us if you feel like it,' she said. 'I always expect people to ask themselves. Life is too short to send out invitations.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Life Is Too Short, People, Said

  Daphne Du Maurier (2012). “Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 4: Rebecca; My Cousin Rachel”, p.92, Hachette UK

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• I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future.

  Lou Reed

  Life Is Short, Past, Thinking

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• He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Halloween, Fighting, Monsters

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• There are a lot of public figures who, before they take a stand on a issue, they talk about it with their publicist and they figure out how it's going to affect record sales. Life is really too short to worry about that sort of thing.

  Moby

  Issues, Worry, Records

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• At least George W. Bush feels like - and I've heard him say it - "You can't judge me now, because look at Abraham Lincoln. When he was in the middle of that war and 600,000 people died, he was vilified for the Gettysburg Address because they felt it was too short and almost insulting, and now you look back and it's considered one of the great speeches of all time and he's considered one of the great presidents of all time."

  Josh Brolin

  War, People, Judging

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Life's too short not to enjoy what you're working on.

  Glenda Bailey

  Enjoy

  Source: wwd.com

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• There's no way you could get me onstage with someone that I didn't like. No way. I would never do that. We have our gripes and stuff like that. All bands have their drama, but life is too short to be miserable around somebody that you don't like.

  Mike Dirnt

  Drama, Life Is Too Short, Band

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• There's nothing a teacher likes better than ten minute videos. It's not the whole class, but it's not too short, it's enough to wrap a lesson plan around.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Teacher, Class, Lessons

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• Life is too short to dwell on what might have been.

  Hillary Clinton

  Success, Life Is Too Short, Might

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• I think that life is a bit like a biscuit that you only get one bite at. The best thing is to just go for it. If you feel an inclination for something, just go for it. Life is too short to muck about doubting yourself. It's better to try and just shore yourself up with some sort of confidence. And get on with it!

  Georgia Byng

  Life Is Too Short, Thinking, Doubt

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• but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

  Jane Austen

  Inspirational, Motivational, Book

  Jane Austen (2016). “Juvenilia -”, p.19, Jane Austen

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• Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Mar 07, 2014

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• You size up someone physically in less than one second - too tall, too short, too fat, too thin, too old, too young, too stuffy, too scruffy.

  Helen Fisher

  Size, Fats, Young

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• Life is too sweet and too short to express our affection with just our thumbs. Touch is meant for more than a keyboard.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Sweet, Thumbs, Keyboards

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• If life is too short, get off the floor at the hotel bar. How can you go big if you're on the floor? I don't understand it.

  Derek Waters

  Life Is Too Short, Bars, Bigs

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Life is too short to live the same day twice. So each new day make sure you live your life.

  Machine Gun Kelly

  Life Is Too Short, New Day, Hip Hop

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