Lifetime Quotes - Page 17

• It's very painful for us to feel we deserve a life. That's the toughest thing. That we deserve to have a life. That can take a lifetime.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Painful, Feels, Deserve

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

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• Any actor should be grateful if he's remembered for one movie in their lifetime.

  Cary Elwes

  Grateful, Actors, Should

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• When I got my first check I was thinking my mother and father didn't make this probably in their lifetime. It's real amazing that some of us are just blessed.

  Dwyane Wade

  Mother, Father, Real

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• There has been a lot of progress during my lifetime, but I'm afraid it's heading in the wrong direction.

  Ogden Nash

  Progress, Headings, Has Beens

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• In no way be bullied into silence. Hardly ever permit on your own to become made a sufferer. Acknowledge no one's definition of one's lifetime; define oneself

  Harvey Fierstein

  Silence, Definitions, Way

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• We have to permit go with the everyday living we had prepared so as to have the lifetime that's watching for us

  Joseph Campbell

  Everyday, Permit, Prepared

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• There is so much baggage we burden ourselves with over the years that keeps us from seeing things the way they are. Some baggage we carry with us for a single thought, some for years, and some for lifetimes. But there isn't one piece that isn't our own creation.

  Bill Porter

  Years, Pieces, Baggage

  Bill Porter (2009). “Zen Baggage: A Pilgrimage to China”, p.330, Counterpoint Press

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• Readers, on the other hand, have at least 7.5 books going all the time. Actually, the number of books a reader takes on is usually directly related to the number of bathrooms he has in his home and office. I am working on a survey that will show that, over a lifetime, readers are in bathrooms seven years and three months longer than nonreaders.

  Calvin Miller

  Book, Home, Hands

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• A lifetime in not enough to learn everything about chess.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Chess, Enough

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• When I act I try to express the suffering or joy I've known during my lifetime.

  Ethel Waters

  Joy, Suffering, Trying

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• The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime

  Bernard Malamud

  Self, Stories, Pages

  Bernard Malamud (1984). “The Stories of Bernard Malamud”

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• Christians already? It seems to me that it takes a lifetime of work.

  Maya Angelou

  Christian, Seems

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• It takes the best part of a lifetime to find out what you don't want.

  Isabel Paterson

  Want

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• Sometimes I like to think that characters you play are all the other people you could've been in a lifetime.

  Mia Maestro

  Character, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• A lifetime isn't long enough to learn how to make films.

  Abel Ferrara

  Long, Film, Enough

  "Abel Ferrara's Teacher". Interview with Sam Fragoso, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 12, 2014.

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• A film needs more than you can give it in a lifetime.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Giving, Needs, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In my lifetime, the world has become better, not worse. And the world is moving, very slowly but surely with more democracy and more liberal way of thinking, more inclusion and more diversity.

  Isabel Allende

  Moving, Thinking, Diversity

  "Isabel Allende: Despite Terrorism, the World Is a Better Place Now Than Ever Before". Interview with Michael Skafidas, www.huffingtonpost.com.

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• For women in my lifetime things have changed quite a bit, but not enough. They have only changed for women that have education and access to health care in the Western world. But look at the rest of the world. Still in many places, women are sold into premature marriages, prostitution, forced labor; they are forced to have children that they cannot support or that they don't want. They are abused, tortured, exploited and even killed with impunity.

  Isabel Allende

  Children, Support, Looks

  "Isabel Allende: Despite Terrorism, the World Is a Better Place Now Than Ever Before". Interview with Michael Skafidas, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 24, 2015.

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• A business enterprise must continue beyond the lifetime of the individual or of the generation to be capable of producing its contributions to economy and to society.

  Peter Drucker

  Generations, Economy, Individual

  Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.34, Routledge

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• You only get one Alan Bond in your lifetime. And I've had mine

  Kerry Packer

  Mines

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• Opera is complex for those who perform it, but also for those who listen to it. It takes more time, more patience and more spirit of sacrifice. All this is well worth it because opera offers such deep sensations that they will remain in a heart for a lifetime.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Heart, Sacrifice, Opera

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• Benedict Arnold was a war hero, wounded in battle--before he turned against his country. Hitler was likewise a decorated and wounded veteran of the First World War. Being a war hero is not a lifetime...exempt[ion]...from responsibility for what you do thereafter.

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, War, Hero

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• If you want to be a real seeker of truth, you need to, at least once in your lifetime, doubt in, as much as it's possible, in everything.

  Blaise Pascal

  Real, Doubt, Needs

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• To be a cult figure in one's own lifetime is most unpleasant.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Figures, Cult

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• In his lifetime the great French impressionist painter Corot painted 2000 canvases. Of that number, 3000 are in the United States.

  Morley Safer

  Numbers, United States, Painter

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