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• Anybody who knows about having a premature baby, it's horrific. He was part of a twin, and I lost his sister.

  Sherri Shepherd

  Baby, Twins, Horrific

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• I have loved deeply. I have lost intensely. I will never love again. I get that love by people who care for me.

  Richard Simmons

  People, Who Cares, Love Again

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• When I lost my weight, I went and bought about 15 different types of underwear to see what would look good on my new body. It's exciting!

  Richard Simmons

  Different, Underwear, Looks

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've lost lots of men in my life, besides my mother, which is a whole different loss.

  Patti Smith

  Mother, Loss, Men

  "The life and deaths of Patti Smith". Interview with Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2008.

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• In 1974, when I started working with the material that became Horses, a lot of our great voices had died. We'd lost Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin, and people like Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.

  Patti Smith

  Horse, Kings, Voice

  "Patti Smith: punk poet queen". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2013.

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• I lost many literary battles the day I read 'Their Eyes Were Watching God.' I had to concede that occasionally aphorisms have their power. I had to give up the idea that Keats had a monopoly on the lyrical.

  Zadie Smith

  Giving Up, Eye, Ideas

  "Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays". Book by Zadie Smith, October 26, 2010.

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• My definition of winning at squash is playing and surviving, and I've never lost a match.

  Arlen Specter

  Winning, Squash, Definitions

  "Former Senator Arlen Specter Dies At 82". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. October 15, 2012.

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• I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Loss, Vantage Point, Innocence

  "A fan's eye view". Interview with Nick Hornby, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2005.

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• After 'Born to Run,' I had a reaction to my good fortune. With success, it felt like a lot of people who'd come before me lost some essential part of themselves. My greatest fear was that success was going to change or diminish that part of myself.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Running, Greatest Fear, People

  "Bruce Springsteen: 'People thought we were gone. Finished'". Interview with Keith Cameron, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2010.

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• Voices are like fingerprints, from Cagney to Bogart. They never lost it. My voice is instrumental in categorizing me.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Voice, Fingerprints, Bogart

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• On the sequel, you've lost the element of surprise. Usually, on the first one you may not go very, very deep into character; the second one you start to explore the character a bit more.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Character, Elements, May

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• I'm a planner, and most networks don't plan. Bravo doesn't plan. Bravo is lucky in a lot of ways - they've got a lot of great talent, but at the same time, they don't nurture it. They lost 'Project Runway.'

  Patti Stanger

  Lucky, Way, Talent

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• Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.

  Charles Stanley

  New Year, Fear, Opportunity

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• In our friendships we have to be wise that we choose godly people to be our friends. Somebody might say, well does that mean that you should never have a lost person as your friend? No, I wouldn't say that. But you can't have the same intimacy with a lost person that you can with a godly person in whom the Holy Spirit is living.

  Charles Stanley

  Friends, Wise, Mean

  "Dr. Charles Stanley: Learning to Walk Wisely". Interview with Craig von Buseck, www.cbn.com.

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• Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.

  Ben Stein

  Home, Years, May

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• Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for them, because it is our vocation to intercede to God for everyone.

  Edith Stein

  Order, Dear Ones, Catholic

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• War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.

  Gertrude Stein

  War, Literature

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Wars I Have Seen”, p.15, Random House

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• In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

  Stendhal

  Love, Broken Heart, Passion

  Stendhal (1957). “Love”, Merlin Pr

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• When I stopped going to school, I got the strongest dose of perspective. When you're a kid, your friends, your school, your teachers, your family - that's your whole world, your whole existence. And then when I stopped going, I lost all my friends but the few that were really close to me.

  Kristen Stewart

  Teacher, School, Kids

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• I've never lost perspective on who I am. Well, maybe briefly, but generally I'm pretty balanced.

  Sting

  Who I Am, Perspective, Wells

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• Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.

  Oliver Stone

  Giants, World, May

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• If the audience is made to do not enough work, they resent it without knowing it. Too much and they get lost. There's a perfect pace to be found. And a perfect place that is different for every line of the play.

  Tom Stoppard

  Play, Knowing, Perfect

  "Pacing It" by Mark Singer, www.newyorker.com. March 7, 2011.

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• The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is where we came from; and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years - the last 50 years really - has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Years, Horizon, Who We Are

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• Perspective gives us the ability to accurately contrast the large with the small, and the important with the less important. Without it we are lost in a world where all ideas, news, and information look the same. We cannot differentiate, we cannot prioritize, and we cannot make good choices.

  John Sununu

  Ideas, Giving, Perspective

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• The damage that climate change is causing and that will get worse if we fail to act goes beyond the hundreds of thousands of lives, homes and businesses lost, ecosystems destroyed, species driven to extinction, infrastructure smashed and people inconvenienced.

  David Suzuki

  Home, Ecosystems, People

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