Havens Quotes - Page 26

• A good thing is I've been playing tennis I think every day for the last two months. I really haven't had a day off. I've been doing things that I did used to do.

  Stefan Edberg

  Sports, Good Day, Thinking

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• You get all of your neuroses worked out on stage. I haven't actually played very many nice characters, certainly not on stage. It's not a quality that attracts me.

  Patrick Stewart

  Nice, Character, Quality

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• My cousin Roger once told me, on the eve of his third wedding, that he felt marriage was addictive. Then he corrected himself. I mean early marriage, he said. The very start of a marriage. It's like a whole new beginning. You're entirely brand-new people; you haven't made any mistakes yet. You have a new place to live and new dishes and this new kind of, like, identity, this 'we' that gets invited everywhere together now. Why, sometimes your wife will have a brand-new name, even.

  Anne Tyler

  Cousin, Mistake, New Beginnings

  Anne Tyler (2012). “The Beginner's Goodbye”, p.122, Random House

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• Great stories teach you something. That's one reason I haven't slipped into some sort of retirement: I always feel like I'm learning something new.

  Clint Eastwood

  Retirement, Learning Something New, Age

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• My husband used to take care of the business part of this, and after he died I found I wasn't really any good at it. I hate remembering who owes me what and bugging them if they haven't paid me.

  Jane Haddam

  Husband, Hate, Care

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• You have had many sadnesses, large ones, which passed. ... But please, ask yourself whether these large sadnesses haven't rather gone right through you [that is, passed through you]. Perhaps many things inside you have been transformed; perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Life, Sadness, Important

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• For some people, fame kills it and becomes more important than the music or the performance. But for me fame is like rocket fuel. The more my fans like what I'm doing, the more I want to give back to them. And my passion is so strong I can't sleep - I haven'tslept for three days.

  Lady Gaga

  Strong, Passion, Sleep

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• Without question, love in its various permutations is what we need more of in this world. The idea that the concept of marriage will be sullied by same-sex marriage is ridiculous. Heterosexuals haven't been doing that well at it on their own.

  Hugh Hefner

  Sex, Ideas, Needs

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• Grand Haven will challenge the skilled player yet, because of some width to the holes, it also will be a fun course that the average player can enjoy.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Fun, Player, Average

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• Imagine a temple inside your mind, a haven from the chaos of the world. Visit often.

  Marianne Williamson

  Mind, World, Temples

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Jul 10, 2011

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• We've seen more reform in the last year than we've seen in decades, and we haven't spent a dime yet. It's staggering how the Recovery Act is driving change.

  Arne Duncan

  Recovery, Years, Reform

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• Christine and I haven't raised our children. A whole community of selfless Christians has contributed to helping them become faithful, competent adults.

  Clayton Christensen

  Christian, Children, Community

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• A long time ago, I made the commitment to dedicate at least one song per album to God. He has been very good to me, and never for one minute do I want Him to think I've forgotten, because I haven't.

  MC Hammer

  Song, Commitment, Thinking

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• I think what he's - what he believes, and he may be correct, I don't know, that we have some intelligence information that leads us to know some things about what's going on in Iraq that we haven't revealed to others.

  Lawrence Eagleburger

  Believe, Thinking, Iraq

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• The regrets in the theatre have always been the shows that you know ought to have worked but for one reason or another haven't.

  Andrew Lloyd Webber

  Regret, Theatre, Reason

  "Andrew Lloyd Webber: 'My greatest regret'". Interview with Charles Spencer, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 26, 2013.

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• Today we stand together all around the world, joined in a common purpose - to remake the planet into a haven of joy and understanding and goodness.

  Michael Jackson

  Common Purpose, Joy, Understanding

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from May 15, 2013

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• Australia is not very exclusive. On the visa application they still ask if you've been convicted of a felony - although they are willing to give you a visa even if you haven't been.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Humor, Australia

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.161, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Haven't you guessed by now? I say, my heart hammering. My home is you.

  Cynthia Hand

  Love, Home, Heart

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• I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.

  Harrison Ford

  Grateful, Careers, Hot

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• You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Trying, Changed

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 15 June 2008

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• I'm a designer, I love it, and I haven't worked this hard to do bad work.

  Genevieve Gorder

  Designer, Hard

  "Genevieve Gorder trades places in 'Town Haul'". Interview with Jay Bobbin, poststar.com. January 21, 2005.

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• They proved that if you quit smoking, it will prolong your life. What they haven't proved is that a prolonged life is a good thing. I haven't seen the stats on that yet.

  Bill Hicks

  Life, Smoking, Comedian

  "Dark Poet". Stand-up show, 1991.

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• The dream of the news is that it makes us care about other people and situations. But we cannot identify with people to whom we haven't been introduced. Humans will only respond to art, to people who are skilled in making you care.

  Alain de Botton

  Dream, Art, People

  "Alain de Botton in quotes: 'The news promotes a toxic society of envy'" by Marta Bausells, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2014.

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• You haven't learned how to live until you've learned how to give.

  Kirk Douglas

  Giving

  "Jeffrey Katzenberg picks up a humanitarian honor" by Todd Longwell, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 17, 2008.

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• And children, if your parents haven't been teaching you what it means to be an American, let 'em know and nail 'em on it. That would be a very American thing to do.

  Ronald Reagan

  Children, Teaching, Mean

  Farewell Address to the Nation, delivered 11 January 1989, Washington D.C.

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