Glad Quotes - Page 13

• You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don't take life for granted any more. I'm really glad to be here.

  Tom Petty

  Fall, People, Granted

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• Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.

  Ezra Pound

  Art, Men, Study

  Ezra Pound, Michael Dirda (2010). “ABC of Reading”, p.2, New Directions Publishing

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• I'm glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me.

  Terry Pratchett

  Knighthood, Genre, Stunned

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• I'm always glad to see somebody rethink something rather than reproduce something I did.

  Harold Prince

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• 'Green Lantern' I screen-tested for twice. I fought for the role. And I'm glad I did, because I felt like I earned it.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Roles, Green, Lanterns

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. January 10, 2010.

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• I'm so glad I'm not 20 years old anymore. I was in a hurricane. I'm a lot calmer now. I don't cause destruction for myself and others everywhere I go.

  Christina Ricci

  Years, Causes, Hurricanes

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• Plant the love of the holy ones within your spirit; don't give your heart to anything, but the love of those whose hearts are glad.

  Rumi

  Heart, Giving, Spirit

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.152, Shambhala Publications

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• I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I'm glad I lived out both roles.

  Adam Sandler

  Roles, Moments, Humiliated

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• Back in my mid-20s I was told I'd never be able to have children as I wasn't having periods. Doctors tried to start up my monthly cycles, but when nothing worked, they actually offered me a hysterectomy. Without it, they said I might get ovarian cancer in the future. I chose not to have the operation, and am so glad I didn't.

  Jill Scott

  Children, Cancer, Doctors

  "Jill Scott: 'I was told I'd never have kids - my son is due in 5 weeks'". Interview with Mirror, www.mirror.co.uk. March 22, 2009.

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• I've definitely been typecast, but I have time to do other things and I was glad to have the chances I did.

  Sean William Scott

  Chance

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• Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business.

  Pete Seeger

  Song, Singing

  "When Pete Seeger Faced Down the House Un-American Activities Committee" by Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. January 28, 2014.

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• I get tweets every single day going, like, 'I'm so glad you weren't on 'The X Factor.''

  Ed Sheeran

  Tweet, Factors

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

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• I'd like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad to get rid of me.

  Alan Shepard

  Teacher, Smart, Thinking

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• Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.

  Ben Stein

  Moving On, Time, Failure

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• I don't think there's ever a right time to have kids. I'm actually pretty glad it's happened quite young.

  Dan Stevens

  Kids, Thinking, Young

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

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• When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Death, Lying, Father

  Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Baxter (1973). “RLS: Stevenson's Letters to Charles Baxter”

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• My parents are both very funny but they're also relatively soft-spoken, normal human beings while I'm just a lunatic. I don't know where this loud, ballsy, hammy ridiculousness came from. I'm just glad I followed my goals and my parents did too. It's not like we even had a plan when I dragged my mom to Los Angeles.

  Emma Stone

  Mom, Goal, Parent

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• I'm glad that I still have the ability to tour in Europe. I do love it.

  James Taylor

  Europe, Ability, Stills

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

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• I'm glad about what's happening to the music business. This last crop of people we had in the 90s, who are going away now, they didn't like music. They didn't trust musicians. They wanted something else from it.

  James Taylor

  People, Going Away, Lasts

  "I used to check my bumpers for blood" by Paul Sexton, www.theguardian.com. December 20, 2007.

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• I've always enjoyed being in the background, sitting in a cafe, watching people. But now, when I sit in a cafe, sometimes people watch me. It's a challenge. But it's usually people who want to say 'your book transformed my life', or something... so then I'm joyful. One moment before, I didn't want them to recognise me, but when they do, I'm glad.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Book, People, Challenges

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• At a certain point, you realize you have a responsibility more behind yourself and your need for adrenaline. I'm glad I did things in my 20s that were more reckless.

  Eddie Vedder

  Responsibility, Needs, Realizing

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• Fatherhood is the best thing that could happen to me, and I'm just glad I can share my voice.

  Dwyane Wade

  Voice, Fatherhood, Share

  Interview with Jared Zwerling, www.espn.com. September 29, 2011.

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• I'm in a place in my life where I get offered parts that I didn't get offered before - fathers and uncles and grandfathers and so on. And it took me a long time to get to that place, but I'm glad because it opens up new territory.

  Christopher Walken

  Uncles, Father, Long

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• I'm quite glad I never learned to play the guitar, because I think I'd write songs that were more classically structured. As it is, I've had to create my own way of writing, which isn't typical. Everything's a big crescendo.

  Florence Welch

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  "Florence and the Machine: 'I was almost out of control'". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2011.

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• When I was trying to impress Kate, I was trying to cook these amazing fancy dinners and what would happen was I would burn something, something would overspill, something would catch on fire and she would be sitting in the background trying to help, and basically taking control of the whole situation, so I was quite glad she was there at the time.

  Prince William

  Fire, Trying, Would Be

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