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• When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Marriage, Wedding

  Getting Married preface (1911)

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• Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.

  Quentin Crisp

  Sleep, Opposites, Needs

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• The APR provides a real-time snapshot of what is happening with our individual student-athletes today. However, it does not address some of the realities that exist in sports played during the spring semester, where student-athletes accept professional opportunities before graduating or before exhausting their eligibility.

  DeLoss Dodds

  Sports, Real, Spring

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• To some, challenges are exhausting. To others, they are opportunities in waiting.

  Tony DiCicco

  Opportunity, Waiting, Challenges

  Tony Dicicco, Colleen Hacker, Charles Salzberg (2003). “Catch Them Being Good: Everything You Need to Know to Successfully Coach Girls”, p.45, Penguin

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• Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.

  C. S. Forester

  Writing, Novel, Knows

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• [Liberty] is a choreand a long-distance race, quite solitary, quite exhausting.

  Albert Camus

  Distance, Race, Long

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• Directing is exhausting, but not for the actual directing part, when you say "Action!" and give creative notes. As a director, the exhausting part is that you are a professional answer-machine.

  Mindy Kaling

  Giving, Creative, Directors

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2011.

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• I force myself to think of anything but the one thing that I'm actually always thinking about. And that is so exhausting that I sleep more than I ever have.

  Holly Goldberg Sloan

  Sleep, Thinking, Force

  Holly Goldberg Sloan (2013). “Counting by 7s”, p.116, Penguin

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• Did you ever have a conversation with someone who misunderstood everything you had to say? It's exhausting, and the ironic part is that the more you try and explain yourself, the more mixed up things become. Your best friend knows when you're kidding, venting, and tired. He or she knows you and therefore doesn't read into the things you say.

  Francois Mauriac

  Best Friend, Tired, Misunderstood

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• I don’t like to rehearse. And I couldn’t understand how you could go through eight weeks of rehearsal, without exhausting every possibility. To the point where, you know, you would just lie gasping on the floor!

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Lying, Eight, Rehearsal

  "The Daniel Day-Lewis Nine Interview". Interview with Prairie Miller, newsblaze.com. December 17, 2009.

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• Docs are more exhausting because of the physical labor that's required. Feature filmmaking is more exhausting because of politics and the bullshit. You get to the point of rolling film and until you lock picture it's one political game after another. They're both struggles for survival. They are two different worlds.

  George Hickenlooper

  Struggle, Two, Games

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Designing is always on the mind of a designer, and as I was saying it's a sort of digestive process, so I usually keep it to myself unless I'm collaborating with someone because explaining all the things that are going on in your head can be quite exhausting, especially in the early stages of a project.

  Christian Louboutin

  Design, Mind, Projects

  "interview with shoe designer christian louboutin". Designboom magazine Interview, www.designboom.com. May 21, 2014.

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• False life is exhausting; Real Life is inexhaustible.

  Guy Finley

  Real, Real Life, Life Is

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Jan 20, 2013

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• I have a work-out regime; I am not a maniac. It sounds cliche, but stand-up comedy, doing a one-man show, helps keep me young, and yes, it is exhausting, but I don't collapse.

  Robert Klein

  Men, Work Out, Sound

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• It is utterly exhausting being Black in America - physically, mentally, and emotionally. While many minority groups and women feel similar stress, there is no respite or escape from your badge of color.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Stress, America, Color

  Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.26, Beacon Press

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• I feel most real when alone, even most alive when alone. Better to say that the liveliness of companionship and the liveliness of solitude differ, and the latter is never as exhausting as the former.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Real, Solitude, Alive

  Florida Scott-Maxwell (2013). “Measure of My Days”, p.11, Knopf

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• Celibacy is exhausting.

  Beatrice Wood

  Celibacy, Sexuality

  Garth Clark, Beatrice Wood (2001). “Gilded Vessel: The Lustrous Art and Life of Beatrice Wood”, Guild

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• From the State the exceptional individual cannot expect much. He is seldom benefited by being taken into its service; the only certain advantage it can give him is complete independence. Only real culture will prevent him being too early tired out or used up, and will spare him the exhausting struggle against culture-philistinism.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Real, Struggle, Taken

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• [On her mother:] My relationship with her is close, painful, and skaky, and I always have to keep searching for a sign of love. Everything I do, I do to please her, to make her smile, to ward off her fury. This work is extremely exhausting.

  Tove Ditlevsen

  Mother, Make Her Smile, Painful

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• Sometimes, it's just easier to say yes to that extra snack or dessert, because frankly, it is exhausting to keep saying no. It's exhausting to plead with our kids to eat just one more bite of vegetables.

  Michelle Obama

  Kids, Vegetables, Snacks

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• Social confusion has now reached a point at which the pursuit of immorality turns out to be more exhausting than compliance with the old moral codes.

  Denis de Rougemont

  Sex, Confusion, Moral

  Denis de Rougemont (1983). “Love in the Western World”, p.25, Princeton University Press

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• But you now, you wear your soul on your sleeve, exhausting your energy, propping yourself up on a tree, mumbling, or bent over your desk, asleep. Heaven gives you a form and you wear it out by pointless argument.

  Zhuangzi

  Giving, Tree, Heaven

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• It is exhausting to be seventeen and not know who you are.

  John Irving

  Seventeen, Knows, Who You Are

  John Irving (2012). “In One Person: A Novel”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• In physics, one of the most exciting areas is in nanotech. With computers exhausting the power of silicon, Silicon Valley could become a Rust Belt, unless we can find replacements, such as quantum computers and molecular computers. To be a leader in any field, one has to have a great imagination. Sure, we have to know the basics and fundamentals. But beyond that, we have to let our imagination soar.

  Michio Kaku

  Imagination, Leader, Valleys

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• It’s mentally exhausting, feeling bad about something you can do nothing about.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Feelings, Feeling Bad, Can Do

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