One of the privileges you have of living the life of an artist and creating your own world and everything is the fact that, in-between times, you can kind of spend them however you want. Because, you know, once you open up your candy store again, you're open for business. And you have to be responsible. You have to be available.
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Related Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron... YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe... YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More... HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes... HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f... HARRY YOU Little drops of rain Whisper of the pain Tears of love Lost in the days gone by. ROBERT PLANT "THANK YOU" Follow your bliss. If you do follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track t... JOSEPH CAMPBELL If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, w... JOSEPH CAMPBELL Sometimes it's hard to open up about your personal life, your relationship because you always wa... NAYVADIUS CASH Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT I think living my happy, open life and showing young gay kids you can be successful, you can have lo... BRYAN BATT You have to take control of your own life, your own destiny, and your own careers. You can't lea... ACTION BRONSON Christ says: I know you through and through – I know everything about you. The very hairs of your ... MOTHER TERESA Authenticity is everything! You have to wake up every day and look in the mirror, and you want to be... AARON RODGERS I have the right to remain violente. Everything I say can and will be used against you. EMINEM When you grow up you tend to get told that the world is the way it is and your life is just to live ... STEVE JOBS The important thing is that your teammates have to know you're pulling for them and you really w... KOBE BRYANT Not to be with the one you love, Laura, the one person you should be spending your life with--it’s... HARRIET EVANS Dare to follow your own paths. Dare to be yourself. Dare to be different. LAILAH GIFTYAKITA When you're invested in your own business, you're going to run it better. When people are fi... FRED DELUCA If you have a trust in and an expectation of your own solitude, everything that you need to know wil... JOHN O'DONOHUE In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you wake in the morning. CARL SANDBURG In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you wake in the morning. CARL SANDBERG In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning. CARL SANDBURG One of the things you learn in rehab is that you're responsible for your own actions. DALE ARCHER You have to be responsible when you're running an organization, and firing people who are your f... BEN HOROWITZ You can't be all of the people you're influenced by, so you make your own filter and create ... CEELO GREEN If you catch yourself wondering why you want more of the world and you're not satisfied with God, it... CRAIG GROESCHEL I had always thought about running for high political office, and I was kind of waiting for the star... MATT CARTWRIGHT Once you get into a feature, whether it's a sequel or an original one, you have to start all ove... DAN SCANLON If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. Y... WALTER ISAACSON I believe in taking chances and living your life. Sometimes doors open and others close and you have... GISELE BUNDCHEN Many are of the mindset that a door will open for them one day. That is great, but what if no door o... OSCAR BIMPONG I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES If you're an artist, you have to use everything to your advantage, even the pain. FKA TWIGS Be inquisitive. Open your eyes, open your minds to things you don't necessarily know even exist. I t... JAY RINALDI Do not shed tears when I have gone but smile instead because I have lived.
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OSCAR BIMPONG If you pour everything you have into this life, this world, which is temporary and fading, you're je... CRAIG GROESCHEL You know what? Yesterday will never come back. Close your eyes and see something! You shall neither ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you sho... WALTER ISAACSON Mark My Words, My Words In Other Words Are Not Just Words. SYED SHARUKH Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living? BOB MARLEY Do you already know that your existence--who and how you are--is in and of itself a contribution to ... ADRIENNE MAREE BROWN Sometimes what you want is right in front of you. All you have to do is open your eyes and see it. MEG CABOT In the free world, your days pass very quickly because you have so many things to do, and you're... INGRID BETANCOURT Once you're more aware of people's needs, you can create action plans for others to follow. ... DEEPAK CHOPRA You know, be able to do something great in your life, you're gonna have to realize your failures... DAVE CHAPPELLE If you live in America and you do not own your own business, you have given up your right to be free... DR. TERRY LYLES I wonder is happiness only an essence of good living, that you shall taste only once or twice while ... RICHARD LLEWELLYN Gaining control over your health and well-being is one of those times in your life that you get to b... , I GOT THIS: HOW I CHANGED MY WAYS AND LOST WHAT WEIGHED ME DOWN, 2012 As an actor, you really want to respect and honor the script. You want to try to be in the moment an... CARRIE-ANNE MOSS I wonder which is preferable, to walk around all your life swollen up with your own secrets until yo... MARGARET ATWOOD When you make up your mind that you want to be Great, you have to learn about the Great people of th... TIFFANY WINFREE If you're going to have a satisfactory standard of living, you're going to have to be compet... BOB MCNAIR I don't think you can ever be bitter about anything, because if you don't allow your heart t... DEBBIE REYNOLDS Spread love. Hug the people you care about and make sure they know that you care and appreciate them... GERMANY KENT As an athlete, you figure you work your whole life to have what you have, and to be able to show the... RICKY WILLIAMS Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind... LEMONY SNICKET You can really have everything you want, if you go after it, but you will have to want it. The desir... CHARLES E. POPPLESTONE You can really have everything you want, if you go after it, but you will have to want it. The desir... CHARLES E. POPPLESTONE You just have to be prepared because in the Premier League, you are not always going to have more th... DIEGO COSTA That's the beauty of argument-if you argue correctly, you're never wrong. , THANK YOU FOR SMOKING, 2006 Something can happen in your life, and you might want and need something different from your spouse.... JOHN TRAVOLTA The only magic that's left in the world right now is the magic that we make ourselves, deliberately.... MEGAN LINDHOLM But one day, you will be faced with a choice, as we all are. One day you will have to choose between... SAMANTHA SHANNON If you're going to have kids, there's only one way to go. They have to know they're the ... DANNY DEVITO You shouldn't vent and open up to your husband, your boyfriend, your friend, because they're... KENDRA WILKINSON To be a good biographer, you have to be an empiricist. You know, you have to gather the evidence, yo... BLAKE BAILEY The most important relationship you have in life is the one you have with yourself. And then after t... DIANE VON FURSTENBERG I think you have to be willing to take a bullet for somebody if you're going to stand up there, ... BLAKE SHELTON Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whet... ANNE LAMOTT You have to relax when you're shooting an arrow. You can't be tense. And that just helps, in... STEPHEN AMELL When you can be your own best audience and when your applause is the best applause you know of, you�... L. RON HUBBARD My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted. WALKER PERCY We're so terrified of death in Western culture that we have to make up a myth of an afterlife. I... STEVE EARLE I always think, medically... you really have to be your advocate. You have to be able to back up eve... LISA EDELSTEIN You can make up your mind to do one of two things: You can have a good time in life, or you can have... CHARLES M. SCHWAB You might not get the apology you deserve. You might not get answers to explain the actions of other... SHANNON L. ALDER I want to be the friend you fall hopelessly in love with. The one you take into your arms and into y... TAHEREH MAFI If one word can be used to characterize the new career, it is self-reliance , ... That means you bel... BARBARA MOSES One thing I have realized in life is that if a responsible person is looking out for you, you hardly... DOUGLAS YEBOAH I believe you can have whatever you really want in this life, in one form or another, sooner or late... BARBARA SHER Nobody can predict the future. You just have to give your all to the relationship you're in and ... NICK CANNON When you're an artist, you have to hope for everything and expect nothing. DARREN CRISS
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QUENTIN CRISP The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country's dazzli... QUENTIN BRYCE The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appa... QUENTIN CRISP It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be ... QUENTIN CRISP Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper. QUENTIN CRISP The aboriginal women leaders of Papunya - the Papunya Artists - performed a dance for me: the Honey ... QUENTIN BRYCE For flavor, instant sex will never supercede the stuff you have to peel and cook. QUENTIN CRISP Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation to which the filing system has been lost? QUENTIN CRISP The English think incompetence is the same thing as sincerity. QUENTIN CRISP Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of tw... QUENTIN CRISP Decency...must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed see... QUENTIN CRISP Even holligans marry, though they know that marriage is but for a little while. It is alimony that i... QUENTIN CRISP The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now so... QUENTIN CRISP One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend. QUENTIN CRISP The continued propinquity of another human being cramps the style after a time unless that person is... QUENTIN CRISP There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any wor... QUENTIN CRISP I don't hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned QUENTIN CRISP Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disast... QUENTIN CRISP Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. QUENTIN CRISP Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors. QUENTIN CRISP Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you underst... QUENTIN CRISP The young always have the same problem -- how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now s... QUENTIN CRISP Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave. QUENTIN CRISP The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy QUENTIN CRISP Turning a broken process into a “non-negotiable” standard does not a good procedure make. QUENTIN BRAUN It takes more than talking points and consultative knowhow. What sets apart a legitimate and compete... QUENTIN BRAUN