Living this life in the same sorta way that Kerouac lived, you get to hang out at shows and drink and you're able to not really face reality and adulthood the way most of my friends are.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Life certainly points it out to you - 'you can go this way or the other way.' You have to de... GAEL GARCIA BERNAL I'm not sure why the saying goes..."be careful what you wish for"...it should be, "prepare yourself ... C. NZINGHA SMITH It's the only way that YOUR life is gonna have any value to you. If you're just living the s... TODD RUNDGREN The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it. GLASER AND WAY The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it. GLASER AND WAY Every day of my life I walk with the idea that I am black, no matter how successful I am. And our su... DANNY GLOVER When you get down to it, the way that the music affects you individually is the most important thing... STEVE VAI You don't have to stick with these recipes. They're guides. As I say, they're a way in. ... SALLY SCHNEIDER It's like I get into a roller coaster, and sit there while it goes up and down and upside down and s... C. JOYBELL C. I really feel like life will dictate itself. You should allow it to unfold as naturally as possible.... SHANIA TWAIN My friends hated going out with me because people think they can grab you and talk to you how they w... SEAN MAGUIRE I really believe, when you come out of hiding, in whatever way you're hiding, you get to go out ... CHRISTINE QUINN If you're a fat person - and especially if you're a woman - at all stages of your life you... JO BRAND To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... If you are going to be serving a living thing, you have to honor that living thing with some kind of... BRYAN FULLER I’d wish it were easier to not allow other people’s pasts to create my own present. JONATHAN HARNISCH You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT While washing the dishes, you might be thinking about the tea afterwards, and so try to get them out... THICH NHAT HANH In most professions, if you stay at the office an extra four hours every day, you're gonna impre... JASON BATEMAN I grew up in a family where everybody had a good time and we were at the lake every weekend and goin... LUKE BRYAN Right now, at this moment, realize that you are living in the present, that you are living in realit... ALEKSANDR SEBRYAKOV I have lived in this city my whole life and have seen the way gentrification has changed it. I'm... AWKWAFINA The danger for a comedian on Twitter is the same danger that any civilian faces: sometimes you gotta... ROB DELANEY It's very, very hard to affect culture. And you can get surprised thinking you're farther do... CAROL BARTZ I have lived my life that way and I expect the people who work for me to be the same way. STUART PEARCE I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying t... OPRAH WINFREY You're doing your kids a disservice if they do get everything they want because that's not t... STEVE CARELL I believe that people who do not vote in this country have no right to complain about the government... BILL BIXBY You have to assume that you're talking to the most intelligent, tuned-in audience you could ever... DYLAN MORAN Life is going to be complex, and the only way we're able navigate our way through it at all is b... DANIEL TAMMET When people assume that you're one way and you're not that way at all, it's hard. CARMEN ELECTRA Laughter is a way of really letting out all this pressure that you could face in your daily life in ... HIAM ABBASS I work out because that's my job, but what I enjoy about it, beyond the vanity, is the Zen of it... CHRIS PINE If you're going to have kids, there's only one way to go. They have to know they're the ... DANNY DEVITO You care enough, that you want your life to be fulfilled in a living way, not in a painting way, not... EDIE SEDGWICK When you're writing, you're conjuring. It's a ritual, and you need to be brave and respe... TOM WAITS You're going to be way happier doing what you actually love and finding other people that love t... AFROJACK If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fu... ROY BENNETT Well, well, well I am trap in well, half way to hell. DEYTH BANGER The earth is an arena of champions. We are all champions. We all did overcome millions of potential ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve. DANIEL DAY-LEWIS Cake is happiness! If you know the way of the cake, you know the way of happiness! If you have a cak... C. JOYBELL C. More than anything I want to get up there and hang out with the audience, make everybody feel like i... KATE VOEGELE Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live a... KILROY J. OLDSTER I was raised in a very humble environment, and I was always taught to be humble to the things that a... JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE It was just this interesting, my first, the first time you hear your child in any way criticise you.... TEA LEONI Make every day count... Even when you think it's the worst day of your life; for you never know when... SOLANGE NICOLE The most important thing is posture: when you get old, it's the way you walk, the way you stand,... CARINE ROITFELD I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations... C. JOYBELL C. Here's my advice to my brown friends: The next time you're on an airplane in the U.S., just ... MAZ JOBRANI There's a point you get to on the stage where you're not remembering lines but living them, ... BILL PULLMAN I'd rather be on the ground than under To feel the heavy rain and the thunder. ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES In Asian languages, the word for 'mind' and the word for 'heart' are same. So if you... JON KABAT-ZINN Kids will keep it real. If I've ever had in my life a great anchor, it's them. They get in y... LIONEL RICHIE Your life is not meant to be lived in a way to satisfy someone's expectation out of you! Live your l... AVIJEET DAS I just want girls to realize, everybody's born a way for a reason, and you are who you are. You ... NIKKI BLONSKY You have to be very insensitive in order to have a cat, because I think they're very independent... JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT Cam was sitting on the bed, still clothed. His head was lowered, hands braced on his knees in the po... LISA KLEYPAS You never choose the way that you're raised, it's just the way that you were raised, but you... MIA WASIKOWSKA If you hate something, the best way to beat it is to be better than anyone else in it. RACHIT Management is defense. You basically say, 'This is the direction; this is where we're headin... MARISSA MAYER The faux now of Twitter updates and things pinging at you - all the pulses from digitality that we t... DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to tho... BEBE REXHA Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ... E.J. PATTEN Most 'reality' shows aren't reality at all. They're game shows with no prize. Like &... HAL SPARKS It's really easy to avoid the tabloids. You just live your life and don't hang out with famo... AMANDA SEYFRIED Most of the time, you don't win anything on reality shows. You're booted off, or maybe you w... MICHAEL IAN BLACK Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH In the end, every man's life is but a tale told to him that's lived it, and to him alone. TIM WILLOCKS I believe in living life the way that you want to live it every day, and if you do that, you don'... TOM FORD All through my life, I didn't really consider my eyes at all, and then I became an actress. It... ALICE EVE My standards are based on shows I like, like 'Girls' or 'Arrested Development.' And ... RACHEL BLOOM I wouldn't, a little bit frightened but throughout my life I'd learnt that when you're i... JOHN NEWCOMBE I suppose I'm in that very small group of people who are not waiting for their own story to unfold. ... CAROL RIFKA BRUNT Gangsta to us didn't have anything to do with Al Capone and stuff like that. It's just about... ICE CUBE Art and science are intrinsically the same except for one thing. The universe is in control of your ... HARRY KROTO It's good-bye to public life in the way that you try to communicate with an audience playfully, ... ALEC BALDWIN We spent an enormous amount of time as hominids and as primates living as hunter-gatherers. That is ... SPENCER WELLS I think that T.V. shows are more like working at a home. You know you're going to the same place... MADISON PETTIS Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room wi... CANDICE OLSON You're always trying to do something that, on one hand, honors all those stories, that is still ... JASON AARON It is difficult to live in and enjoy the moment when you are thinking about the past or worrying abo... ROY BENNETT I felt like I was building this world brick by brick with each layer of instrumentation I was doing.... WASHED OUT Most TV shows are writing the next episode while you're directing the one you're doing, and ... ALEX GRAVES I'm living to the edges of my fingernails, using everything I have. It's impossible for me t... ARUNDHATI ROY A lot of women seem to think the way to ingratiate themselves is to put down other women or backstab... GABRIELLE UNION You're just sort of searching for this 'thing' and sometimes you get it and sometimes yo... JOHN ABERCROMBIE Like, you can't tell a certain race, like, 'You're supposed to act this way, and you'... KREAYSHAWN Creativity is not just thinking outside the box but living outside it. VICTOR SHAMAS Tidal waves are like reality. They can smack you in the face when you least expect it, but that does... SAMARA RENEE MUNOZ It's interesting when you're old enough to take a new, objective approach looking at your pa... ROBERT DOWNEY, JR. Sometimes it took death for me to see life, don't live with regrets keep your head high. In a ... PUERTO RICAN PRINCESS The literature of menopause is the saddest, the most awful, and the most medical of all genres. You&... SANDRA TSING LOH The weird thing about rap is that you don't get compared in the same way that athletes do, even ... CHANCE THE RAPPER I wanted to have some disdain in the way that she fights sometimes, because I think Elektra is a bit... ELODIE YUNG I love TV, don't get me wrong. But with film, you're just banging out this one product and y... DAVID ANDERS Dancing - that's really what I do at parties. I dance and I hang out with friends. That's my... REBECCA BLACK Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying. We decide to go out walking the wh... TEGAN QUIN People in life take on certain stories and say, 'I'm going to be defined by this story and I... STANA KATIC
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It was for gentle Shakespeare cut,
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Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy
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To be made honest by an act of parliament
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They that love mirth, let them heartily drink,
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