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Related Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying. We decide to go out walking the wh... TEGAN QUIN Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON You're right on the money with that. We're all like detectives in life. There's somethin... DAVID LYNCH You're living your life the entire time in both worlds - it's not like they say, 'Action... LUCAS HEDGES So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backl... VINCE MCMAHON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX I think copyright has its right to exist, absolutely, and I think that it's up to copyright crea... KIM DOTCOM I'm not a reality-TV kind of guy. But it's almost like we're living in a reality show. E... CLINT EASTWOOD We're finally going to be free of the 2D monitor. It's been a window into virtual reality th... BRENDAN IRIBE Obviously it's much easier to say that you're going to follow your passions when you're ... NATALIE PORTMAN Why do you think the fans like us - why they prefer our street raps over all that phony stuff out th... EAZY-E That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it. EMINEM We're all living blinkered lives, and we're not seeing what's going on and looking to ch... SAMANTHA MORTON There's always pressure, from other people and yourself. If you're happy with the looks you&... NATALIE PORTMAN I'm living to the edges of my fingernails, using everything I have. It's impossible for me t... ARUNDHATI ROY The aspect of kind of living in your imagination and creating a more romantic vision of the world th... ALDEN EHRENREICH Dying in childbirth is something that's not new; it's been going on for ages, and so it'... LIYA KEBEDE Reality in movies is the reality of the story you're telling, so it may not match the reality as... CALEB DESCHANEL There's a balance in my life. There's reality, and there's the part that looks really gl... OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN I think it's good that we're not embarrassed that we're comic book creators anymore. It&... JONATHAN HICKMAN The Bible consistently and directly indicates that when we give generously, we're serving, honoring,... CRAIG GROESCHEL It's hard to bring up your children on benefit. It's easier if you can do part- time work, o... HARRIET HARMAN I certainly understand that we're all trying to make a living, but I'm not thinking about th... AIMEE MANN The danger for a comedian on Twitter is the same danger that any civilian faces: sometimes you gotta... ROB DELANEY I think that, a lot of times in Hollywood pictures, the reality, the messy reality of women's li... HALEY BENNETT What we are doing is, rather than living on the interest of our basic biological capital, we're ... DAVID SUZUKI We all like going to the dark side of things; we all like dipping into worlds that we don't know... ANTONY STARR We all act differently in certain places. We don't want to admit it, but we're different whe... MIKE COLTER I don't think we're going to see the price of oil going down in the near future, that's ... CARLY FIORINA Just think in terms of green energy and how much time, money, brain power and policy action has star... WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR. We're living in a time when the most famous people in the world have no specific skill set and a... ERIN FOSTER There's a sense of aliveness that comes from connection, shared experience. And you see it in ev... PETER GUBER Computers are still technology because we are still wrestling with it: it's still being invented... DOUGLAS ADAMS Reagan was all about America, and you talked about it. Obama is, 'We are above that now. We'... CHRIS MATTHEWS We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You'... JANE FONDA I do think we've become so reliant that the phones are never out of our reach. We're always ... CARLY POPE You need mystery. You actually do. I think that's what foreign women, French women in particular... JASON CLARKE Being a teenager is as difficult as living with one. And we've all been there. Perhaps that'... MELVIN BURGESS Being vegan is not the key to immortality. We're all going to get sick and die. But to know you&... VICTORIA MORAN It's so easy to fall into a comfortable groove in life where you do the things that you like, an... FLEA Temptation is just the feeling that you're the most independent person on planet Earth. That you... KENDRICK LAMAR We're so terrified of death in Western culture that we have to make up a myth of an afterlife. I... STEVE EARLE We're getting ready to sit down at the table and have Thanksgiving, and there's people that ... GUY FIERI It's human nature to not say everything that's on your mind at the time you think it. Becaus... TAYLOR SWIFT We're not living in a society that science actually dominates the conversation. We're living... JOSH FOX We're living at this funny time, where we're all urged to express ourselves as unique indivi... ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN Well, I am producing a show that's going to be on NBC this fall. It's called 'School Pri... CHERYL HINES Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there... JARVIS COCKER The Open Skies issue is something that's ongoing and we understand that there are issues in Aust... JENNY SHIPLEY Where are the Asian leading men? Well, we're being kicked to the ground; we're not being sup... VINCENT RODRIGUEZ III So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan. BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously. ERINN HAYES When I'm not acting, I try to be normal, play golf, play hockey. It's funny because you'... TAYLOR KITSCH When an audience is affected in a way that I've seen with some people, it's so inspiring to ... SALLY HAWKINS I'm not an idealist. I know we're not going to be living in a world that's peace and lov... MICHAEL FRANTI We tend to assume that we have a baseline of speech that's going to be normal in all contexts, b... DEBORAH TANNEN We actors are superstitious creatures. We do all the homework, and we put all of the components toge... LORRAINE TOUSSAINT We're changing the way people are going to look at wrestling, women's wrestling, forever. Fo... BECKY LYNCH If we could, we'd change a lot of things. But the only thing that's going to really change t... EAZY-E We all have the same problem as human beings. And it's something that we are born with, and we j... BENJAMIN WATSON Eternity is not something that begins after you're dead. It is going on all the time. We are in ... CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN It's a reality that in this business there's an expectation of being thin. But having a baby... EMILY PROCTER In America, you keep on hearing productivity is low; secular stagnation, it's a new normal. It... JAMIE DIMON I think we're lucky to be living when we are, because things are going to get worse. DAVID ATTENBOROUGH If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, t... JOYCE MEYER We get to live in a time that we get to use social media as a tool. It's not just a face on a pi... GIGI HADID I think that one of the things that we have to recognize is that the longer somebody doesn't hav... KEVIN HASSETT Every time I rap about being a big girl in a small world, it's doing a couple things: it's e... LIZZO Things are pretty good in Canada. We weathered the recession fairly well. And, of course, were up he... RICK MERCER In any profession, whether it's teachers or doctors or lawyers, the more we say we're not go... DAVID BOIES In the governments, as we've witnessed in the past, they had to hide. Because there's a lot ... CARL PALADINO The reality about transportation is that it's future-oriented. If we're planning for what we... ANTHONY FOXX If you're a global company you are going to have jobs overseas. The reality is if we start taxin... ANNE M. MULCAHY I have nightmares that I'm going to wake up, and everyone's driving a Prius and living in a ... KID ROCK We use fashion for status and to beautify and there's nothing wrong with that, but when it becom... DAVID LACHAPELLE I feel that every day, all of us now are being blasted by information design. It's being poured ... DAVID MCCANDLESS One thing I think celebrities shy away from is exposing the reality that we're all the same. Som... AUBREY O'DAY We're plugged in 24 hours a day now. We're all part of one big machine, whether we are consc... ALAN LIGHTMAN The world changes. The world is completely different now from when I was growing up. Back then, you ... JOHNNY MATHIS Now, there are so many movies, so many festivals, and so many awards going on, each judged with each... JAVIER BARDEM It's very important that you focus on winning games and being consistent down the stretch. I thi... MIKE SINGLETARY I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, beca... NATASHA LYONNE I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a mi... KARL MARLANTES These rovers are living on borrowed time. We're so past warranty on them. You try to push them h... STEVEN SQUYRES On 'Late Night,' it's like we're all in on the joke. That's what I wanted it to ... JIMMY FALLON It's one of the things that looks good written down, but the reality is that you think about the... MATTHEW BOURNE There's fears in everyone's job. Ours are in the limelight, and people think we're incre... RAMI MALEK It is television; we're making television at the end of the day. It's all smoke and mirrors,... SAMIRA WILEY Putting on a movie is like going to war - for me, at least. It's all about time; time is money, ... LEE DANIELS We're actually doing something scripted that's totally, you know, we kind of know what's... JOSH HOLLOWAY I think about death all the time. I think that's a good thing because we're all going to die... STEVE GLEASON 'Who are we?' And to me that's the essential question that's always been in science ... DAVID GERROLD One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, i... PENN JILLETTE When we can't determine what is art - when you get to that point where we're not sure, that&... RICHARD PHILLIPS
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I don't want to get in over my head because when you do tha... GABBY DOUGLAS Gospel music always relaxes me and calms my nerves. GABBY DOUGLAS By now, you've probably caught on to something: my mother is always standing by with just the ri... GABBY DOUGLAS Gold medals are made out of your sweat, blood and tears, and effort in the gym every day, and sacrif... GABBY DOUGLAS I had to face a lot coming through this journey, a lot of sacrifices, difficulties, challenges, and ... GABBY DOUGLAS You know, God has a plan for me, and I'm going to follow in his footsteps and just rejoice and b... GABBY DOUGLAS Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to g... DOUGLAS MACARTHUR I like to think of thoughts as living blossoms borne by the human tree. JAMES DOUGLAS How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consent... NORMAN DOUGLAS I'm not gonna lie, I love Usain Bolt and Serena Williams. What I love about Serena is that she j... GABBY DOUGLAS The simplest way to prepare Dungeness crabs is to boil them in the shell and set them in front of yo... TOM DOUGLAS Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are... MARY DOUGLAS My first job was on Broadway. Then I went into the Navy. When I came out of the Navy, I went back to... KIRK DOUGLAS Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories. DOUGLAS MACARTHUR It is a fatal error to enter any war without the will to win it. •Douglas MacArthur All great... DOUGLAS MACARTHUR The negative aspects of Scottish Nationalism are a kind of aggressive complacency, that sort of boas... DOUGLAS DUNN Some say that the universe is made so that when we are about to understand it it changes into somet... DOUGLAS ADAMS In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been wid... DOUGLAS ADAMS Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together... DOUGLAS JERROLD Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late. DOUGLAS JERROLD Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people
twice the time of others. DOUGLAS JERROLD Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately
it is wanted. Men pay severely wh... DOUGLAS JERROLD Honest bread is very well--it's the butter that makes the
temptation. DOUGLAS JERROLD I hope that no American . . . will waste his franchise and throw
away his vote by voting either for... DOUGLAS JERROLD A pill that the present moment is daily bread to thousands. DOUGLAS JERROLD After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than
in any other gown in the world. DOUGLAS JERROLD Greece's European neighbors were able step in and bolster the weak foundation on which Greece... DOUGLAS WILDER It's hard to legislate what people eat. People are getting fed up with being told what they can ... TOM DOUGLAS I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons. DOUGLAS ADAMS I wanted to be a writer-performer like the Pythons. In fact, I wanted to be John Cleese, and it took... DOUGLAS ADAMS Time is bunk. DOUGLAS ADAMS For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen. DOUGLAS ADAMS Of course you can't 'trust' what people tell you on the web anymore than you can 'tr... DOUGLAS ADAMS If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictu... DOUGLAS ADAMS The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong i... DOUGLAS ADAMS I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge? DOUGLAS ADAMS