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• I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started off living on gruel, and by God, I can always go back to it again.

  S. J. Perelman

  Food, Cooking, Teeth

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• I think the actor has a tribal role as the archetypal story teller. I think there was a time when the storyteller, the priest, the healer, were all one person in one body. That person used to weave stories at night around a small fire to keep the tribe from being terrified that sun had gone down.

  Ben Kingsley

  Healing, Night, Thinking

  "Ben Kingsley Talks Oliver Twist". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. September 20, 2005.

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• Confidence in markets and in institutions, it's a lot like oxygen. When you have it, you don't even think about it. It's indispensable. You can go years without thinking about it. When it's gone for five minutes, it's the only thing to think about.

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Years, Oxygen

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• I made songs really for myself - I didn't ever expect to put it out there and make this a record for mass consumption, this was really just a way for me to get out of my own situation and reclaim that part of myself - so when making the songs, I wanted a testament to what I'd gone through, I wanted a snapshot of those moments.

  Frank Iero

  Song, Snapshots, Records

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• The past is gone. I know it sounds cliché, but you're here. Like be in it. And boxing was a really good analogy for me to try and carry that in my everyday life all the time.

  Hilary Swank

  Past, Boxing, Everyday

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I always get a little bit pissed off when stand-up comedy is not recognised as being as good a craft as being an actor. We give Oscars to people and it's like, 'Aw, this person is the greatest person on earth', but being an actor is pretty easy in comparison to stand-up comedy. It's no surprise that several stand-up comics have gone on to become great actors. I don't know any great actors that have gone on to become great stand-up comics.

  Jim Jefferies

  Giving, People, Actors

  Source: www.gigglebeats.co.uk

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• I've gone into prisons, I've gone into schools, I've gone into corporations, all over the world. It doesn't matter where you go, people are essentially the same. Our culture is different, but culture is nothing but group habit, culture is paradigm and when you get past the culture, people are essentially the same.

  Bob Proctor

  School, Past, People

  Source: pavlinapapalouka.com

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• I just share my story in hopes that some people out there who have gone through different circumstances might be encouraged and inspired that even in their circumstances to know that there is nothing God can't change.

  Nick Vujicic

  People, Different, Stories

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• I'm over smoking. You know, I feel like I've gone on long hikes and gotten to the top of the mountain and I'm looking at something beautiful, some great huge landscape, and there's some of the cleanest air that's on the planet. And then I light up, and say, "Ahh, what a great smoking moment this is!" So it's something evil that's taken over, and I want control over it.

  Eddie Vedder

  Beautiful, Taken, Light

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• My whole life everyone always said 'it can't be done', 'you'll never do it', 'you will fail', 'no one has ever gone from Austria and become a Mr Universe, blah, blah, blah', or when I ran for governor people were sceptical. It was 'you're going to lose' and 'people don't take people from show-business seriously in politics'. So, I've heard all the 'it's impossible' thing but I didn't pay any attention because I believed that I could do it.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Impossible Things, People, Attention

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Shame tells you when you've gone too far. Then you try if it's okay to go too far. And it might be so that shame was right. You can never, never know that.

  Karl Ove Knausgard

  Trying, Might, Shame

  ""Something that's not yourself." - An Interview with Karl Ove Knausgård". Interview with Rebecka Bülow, logger.believermag.com. September 18, 2013.

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• There's just something "off" about equating the act of spending three years writing a book with the act of someone exploiting themselves by drunkenly flashing the camera for "Girls Gone Wild" or something.

  Marie Calloway

  Girl, Book, Writing

  The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. March 19, 2013.

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• It's when most of the guests have gone that the party really gets interesting - peering under the table and into the bath to see who's stayed and what shape they're in. It is then that those who are still conscious divulge things you had not known before: sometimes about themselves, sometimes about other people and sometimes about you. It does not necessarily make pleasant hearing but it is always fascinating. In the relaxed atmosphere, in the wake of the hubbub, they unwind and grow confidential - nay, indiscreet. If they are not already, they end up as your closest friends.

  Alice Thomas Ellis

  Party, Interesting, People

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• I have frequently thought that the dead should be buried with all their belongings. It seems weirdly perverse that their clothes should still be here when the people you love best in the world have gone.

  Alice Thomas Ellis

  Love Is, Clothes, People

  Alice Thomas Ellis (1997). “Home Life”

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• By some mysterious method, Susan Carr's gossip gave the listener a gentler feeling towards his kind. When she spoke of her neighbors' faults, one knew that somehow they were simply virtues gone to seed.

  Margaret Deland

  Gossip, Feelings, Faults

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• While we are reasoning concerning life, life is gone.

  David Hume

  Life, Life Is, Reasoning

  David Hume (1862). “Essays moral, political, and literary. (Life of the author, etc.).”, p.122

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• At my age days dissolve like salt in water; the day's gone and I don't even know what I've done with the hours.

  Isabel Allende

  Time, Water, Age

  Isabel Allende (1993). “The Infinite Plan: A Novel”, Harpercollins

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• After fifty most of the bullshit is gone.

  Isabel Allende

  Bullshit, Fifty

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• If 'heartache' sounds exaggerated then surely you have never gone to your garden one rare morning in June to find that the frost, without any perceptible motive, any hope of personal gain, has quietly killed your strawberry blossoms, tomatoes, lima and green beans, corn, squash, cucumbers. A brilliant sun is now smiling at this disaster with an insenstive cheerfulness as out of place as a funny story would be if someone you loved had just died.

  Ruth Stout

  Morning, Garden, June

  Ruth Stout (1987). “How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back: A New Method of Mulch Gardening”, Fireside

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• The fog lifted in the evening and a blue-black band at the horizon marked the end of the sea and the beginning of thought. Where does a beginning begin when nothing has gone on before?

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Ocean, Fog, Blue

  Gretel Ehrlich (1995). “A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning”, p.51, Penguin

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• time past is not time gone, it is time accumulated with the host resembling the character in the fairytale who was joined along the route by more and more characters none of whom could be separated from one another or from the host, with some stuck so fast that their presence caused physical pain.

  Janet Frame

  Pain, Character, Past

  Janet Frame (1985). “To the is-land: an autobiography”, George Braziller

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• in love, gallantry is necessary. Even when the first wild desire is gone, especially then, there is an inherent need for good manners and consideration, for the putting forth of effort. Two courteous and civilized human beings out of the loneliness of their souls owe that to each other.

  Ilka Chase

  Loneliness, Two, Effort

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• But that was the best time of my life, and only now that it has gone from me forever -- only now do I realize it.

  Natalia Ginzburg

  Forever, Realizing, Time Of My Life

  Natalia Ginzburg, Cesare Garboli, Lisa Ginzburg, Marino Sinibaldi (2003). “It's Hard to Talk about Yourself”, p.46, University of Chicago Press

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• I wasn't allowed to speak while my husband was alive, and since he's gone no one has been able to shut me up.

  Hedda Hopper

  Husband, Alive, Able

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• [On Hollywood:] I had gone there expecting to see parties that reflected the stock-in-trade of the movies - glamour. Instead, I found the same attitude toward parties that European peasants had for baths. It was something to be done methodically every Saturday night.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Attitude, Party, Night

  Elsa Maxwell (1955). “I married the world”

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