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• Being very famous is not the fun it sounds. It merely means you're being chased by a lot of people and you lose your privacy.

  Colin Wilson

  Fun, Mean, People

  "Where the outsider went next". Interview with Lisa Gee, www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2002.

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• To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum, you must lose a good name to him, before you can win it for yourself.

  William Congreve

  Winning, Play, Names

  William Congreve (2014). “Love for Love”, p.21, A&C Black

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• Someone's always saying, "It's not whether you win or lose," but if you feel that way, you're as good as dead.

  James Caan

  Success, Winning, Enthusiasm

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• In a Christian Theocracy, you'll never be Christian enough. There's always going to be somebody there with another version of Christianity that is more Christian than you and you're going to lose the freedom to make the choice because you didn't defend the Separation of Church and State when you had the chance.

  David Silverman

  Christian, Choices, Church

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• Men should press forward, in fame's glorious chase; Nobles look backward, and so lose the race.

  Edward Young

  Men, Race, Looks

  Edward Young, Thomas Park (1808). “The Poetical Works of Edward Young: In Four Volumes. Collated with the Best Editions:”, p.108

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• I find myself in situations that I know would be unbelievable pictures and I have to gauge, Is this worth taking the camera out? Am I gonna lose the moment? Am I gonna get a dirty look from Sting?

  John Mayer

  Dirty, Cameras, Gauges

  "Nikon Podcast #3: Exclusive Interview with John Mayer". Interview Mark Ellwood, 2007.

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• When my dad was in Vietnam, we lost a parent for a year. Thank God we didn't lose a parent for good.

  Fred Wilson

  Dad, Years, Parent

  "A Veterans Day Story" by Fred Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 11, 2011.

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• Almost all men, and those that seem to be very miserable, love life, because they cannot bear to lose sight of such a beautiful and lovely world. The ideas, that every moment whilst we live have a beauty that we take not distinct notice of, brings a pleasure that, when we come to the trial, we had rather live in much pain and misery than lose.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Beautiful, Pain, Love Life

  "The Images of Divine Things, The Shadows of Divine Things, The Language and Lessons of Nature". Notebook by Jonathan Edwards, "The Beauty of the World" (c.1725), 1948.

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• When the sciences are supreme, average people lose their feeling of causality.

  Paul Goodman

  Average, People, Feelings

  Growing Up Absurd" by Paul Goodman, (p. 144), 1956.

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• Then time seemed to stop, or rather to lose its directional urgency of movement; it became a place in the open where one stood rather than a low, narrow corridor down which one was hurried.

  Fritz Leiber

  Movement, Lows, Corridors

  Fritz Leiber (1964). “The wanderer”

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• A man who makes a one-dollar profit on his expense account is dishonest. A man who loses five cents on one is a damned fool.

  Gene Fowler

  Money, Men, Dollars

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• Too often little attention is paid to individual talent. instead, education goes on dividing people according to their sex, and putting them in little feminine or masculine pigeonholes ... Girls are shielded and sometimes helped so much that they lose initiative and begin to believe the signs 'Girls don't' and 'Girls can't' which mark their paths... Consequently, it seems almost necessary to evolve different methods of instruction for them when they later take up the same subjects.

  Amelia Earhart

  Girl, Sex, Women

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• With any level of success you get some non-musical things that come along - money, ego - and it's easy to lose your perspective and get off doing what you did to get there.

  Joe Walsh

  Perspective, Ego, Musical

  Source: thequietus.com

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• As you become famous you lose some of your anonymity, which is wonderful for an actor to have because you can observe people and also people don't have such a strong sense of who you are and that sort of thing.

  Jeff Bridges

  Strong, People, Actors

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. January 10, 2011.

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• With no gravitational force to work against, your body not only doesn't need the same amount of muscle and bone, it starts breaking them down. As on Earth, so in space: use it or lose it. And exercise may not solve the problem.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Exercise, Use It Or Lose It, Space

  "Can We Make It To Mars?". "NOVA scienceNOW" with Neil deGrasse Tyson, www.pbs.org. January 19, 2011.

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• I love acting in the theater,but I'm fascinated with acting on film. If it's a film or a play or whatever, if the writing is good and you really feel passionate about it, you just can't lose. You'll grow from it. Whether it's a success or not is neither here nor there; you're going to grow as an artist from this experience.

  Jonathan Groff

  Writing, Artist, Play

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I think a good thing to always remember is to just keep your head on straight and don't lose your feet.

  Liam Hemsworth

  Thinking, Feet, Remember

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• But I really can't and I actually don't like switching off because I worry that I might lose my thread, or something. I fall asleep and I hope to God that I'm going to dream about it, because then I don't have to put it down.

  Kate Winslet

  Dream, Fall, Worry

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I left the studio at 5:30 in the morning. It's an incredible mind exercise. You have to, obviously, have stamina, but you really feel like you're kind of feeding your mind. It's a challenge of learning lines very fast and then you have to be lose enough to hopefully make good choices in a much shorter amount of time that it takes to film certain scenes.

  Glenn Close

  Morning, Exercise, Choices

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• When you genuinely lose your illusions, you begin to marvel at things, because you don't have the answers any more.

  Sam Keen

  Answers, Illusion

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• The trick, though, is to not lose compassion, to not allow the sense of absurdity to outweigh the awareness of real beings, with real feelings. Mean-spirited humor turns the world into cardboard, the way Midas's simple-minded greed turned food into inedible and useless stuff.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Real, Mean, Simple

  Source: www.americanmicroreviews.com

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• I always remind myself if I'm having a down day because of a bad race it's not just me. That feeling I'm having is shared by my family, the team and my fans. When we win they feel the joy as well. That's why I say we win and lose together, and I definitely couldn't do it without them.

  Lewis Hamilton

  Team, Winning, Race

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• Even if you need, and want, a second opinion, it can be dangerous to have people telling you what they think you ought to add, or cut, before you've even finished telling your story. One loses heart; one loses energy and interest. Or at least I do.

  Donna Tartt

  Heart, Cutting, Thinking

  Interview with Michael Pietsch, www.slate.com. October 11, 2013.

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• I believe that writing for me is in a way like wisdom; in that as soon as you feel like you've got it figured out you stop growing and maybe even lose something.

  Brandi Carlile

  Believe, Writing, Growing

  "Interrogating Brandi Carlile: I Knew ‘That Wasn’t Me’ Was Our ‘Let It Be.’". Interview with Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 24, 2012.

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• When a thing is bought not for its use but for its costliness, cheapness is no recommendation. As Sismondi remarks, the consequence of cheapening articles of vanity, is not that less is expended on such things, but that the buyers substitute for the cheapened article some other which is more costly, or a more elaborate quality of the same thing; and as the inferior quality answered the purpose of vanity equally well when it was equally expensive, a tax on the article is really paid by nobody: it is a creation of public revenue by which nobody loses.

  John Stuart Mill

  Vanity, Quality, Purpose

  John Stuart Mill (1862). “Principles of Political Economy, with Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy”, p.460

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