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Here's hoping all the days ahead, won't be as bitter as the one's behind you. Be an optimist instead, and somehow happiness will find you. — Ray Davies
Basically he never went to work and didn't have a job. Of course I thought he did. I thought he was on the phone doing… — Christie Brinkley
It is very difficult to say nowadays where the suburbs of London come to an end and where the country begins. The railways, instead of… — Anthony Trollope
You could have told me yourself that you found someone else, instead I heard it through the grapevine. — Gladys Knight
Papa wasn't man enough, couldn't stand up to his responsibilities. Instead of taking care of me, he'd rather live lavishly. — Tupac Shakur
The self-talk of the ego-mind is so busy describing what is happening, judging whether it is good or bad for us, and telling us what… — Russell Peters
Following rulers instead of prophets, the wicked can rule you, but the knowledge can stop it. — Kool Moe Dee
I've chosen not to live in Hollywood, and instead I live in Brooklyn, New York. It's how I like to live. I'd rather hang out… — Jennifer Connelly
It is extremely dangerous to talk about limits or borders. It is vital, instead, that we remain completely open, that we are always involved, and… — Dario Fo
I've also learned to no longer feel guilty if I'm invited out and don't want to go. If I start to say to myself, 'What's… — Edie Falco
Instead of failure being the outcome, failure became not trying. And it forced me at a young age to want to push myself so much… — Sara Blakely
Movie characters rarely get to think out loud or talk very much about their emotions. Instead they have to, very briefly, show their feelings through… — Seth Grahame-Smith
Writing has always felt like a compulsion. Even at high school there'd be times when people would ask me if I wanted to go and… — Amanda Hocking
I got expelled from high school, and then did my exams from home. I decided, through that experience, that I was going to expediate my… — Charlie Hunnam
People who put themselves on the line and sacrifice their own safety for the greater good and for others, and anyone in any profession whose… — Chris Hemsworth
The difference between me and other people in my generation is instead of saying the Internet's killing the record business, I say, 'Who cares about… — Daryl Hall
Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it. — Johann Georg Hamann
I'd get invited to parties, and instead it would be these abandoned houses. — Julianne Hough
Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it,… — Marilyn Hacker
When I fell into modeling, because I wanted to work in fashion. I wanted to do styling or make-up. I ended getting picked up to… — Rosie Huntington Whiteley
I first started acting in primary school, just doing little plays. And from the moment I began, something just went 'click' inside me. Suddenly I… — Sally Hawkins
Like most Americans, I hope and wish is that there is a peaceful resolution to the Middle East conflict. Unfortunately, there are extremists on both… — Darrell Issa
I think all of us thought that by the '70s, at the latest the '80s, all the world's problems would be solved and everyone would… — Janis Ian
When I was very little, I probably wanted to be more normal. I probably wanted the Laura Ashley bedroom, and instead I got thrift-store everything. — Miranda July
I can only have dinner with my girlfriends once a month instead of once a week. — Andrea Jung

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