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We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.
John Updike

Great, Others, Sane

Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.
John le Carre

Life, Marriage, Hope

I don't really think about doing something kind, I think there's just a way to conduct your daily life with compassion to other people.
Kat Dennings

Life, Compassion, Conduct

I'm definitely up in weight. I'm looking forward to getting an exercise routine again. It's like a daily decision.
Carnie Wilson

Forward, Decision, Again

When you look at Clark Kent when he's working at the Daily Planet, he's a reporter. He doesn't fly through the air in his glasses and his suit.
Gene Simmons

Through, Working, Air

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
Marian Wright Edelman

Time, Ignore, Trying

Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.
Ninon de L'Enclos

Life, Enough, Why

No, I can tell you one of the first things that happens to a home secretary when they arrive in the job is that they are given a briefing about the security matters that they will be dealing with and I deal with security matters on a daily basis.
Theresa May

Home, Job, Tell

We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.
John Cage

Life, Business, Involved

Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.
Christy Turlington

Death, Fear, Lives

Give us this day our daily taste. Restore to us soups that spoons will not sink in and sauces which are never the same twice. Raise up among us stews with more gravy than we have bread to blot it with Give us pasta with a hundred fillings.
Robert Farrar Capon

Give, Same, Among

The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.
Robert Doisneau

Life, Find, Unexpected

From the very commencement the student should set out to witness the progress and effects of sickness and ought to persevere in the daily observation of disease during the whole period of his studies.
Robert James Graves

Whole, Progress, Student

Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up.
Joan Didion

Work, Business, Writing

I never wanted to be a celebrity; I never wanted to be famous. And in my daily life, I work really hard to not trade on it in any way.
Sarah Jessica Parker

Life, Work, Famous

We can remake the world daily.
Paul Wellstone

Also, I need deadlines, just like everybody else, especially coming from magazines, newspapers, and stuff like that. I need daily or weekly deadlines to get stuff done, or I continue to do things and not go off on a year of unproductivity.
Dave Eggers

Done, Else, Off

I think one reason people play golf is it allows them to obsess about something other than the daily crap. It takes your mind off that.
Lewis Black

Mind, Play, Reason

The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed.
Elia Kazan

Democracy, Communists, Violated

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.
Lawrence Durrell

Life, Art, True

It's the beauty and curse of doing a daily show. Some days you've got nothing to talk about and other days Dick Cheney shoots his lawyer in the face and everyone is happy.
Craig Ferguson

Beauty, Happy, Nothing

The one show that I will continue to be a guest on is 'The Daily Show' with Jon Stewart, if he'll have me. It's not competitive with CNN and it's too much fun.
Fareed Zakaria

Fun, Show, Continue

Here is the operating motto of the Obama White House: 'So let it be written, so let it be done!' Like Yul Brynner's Pharaoh Ramses character in Cecil B. DeMille's 'The Ten Commandments,' the demander in chief stands with arms akimbo issuing daily edicts to his constitution-subverting minions.
Michelle Malkin

Character, Done, Motto

Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life.
Stephen Ambrose

Life, History, Crazy

I connect with people on a daily basis.
Zac Efron

Life is full of change and uncertainty. We know this. We experience it on a daily basis.
Carre Otis

Life, Change, Experience

If you think of what food is, it's the energy we use to do our daily work. I want people to know about the USDA. This is a very important department. It's not fully appreciated as such.
Tom Vilsack

Work, Food, Important

My Marine experience helped shape who I am now personally and professionally, and I am grateful for that on an almost daily basis.
Jim Lehrer

Experience, Grateful, Almost

It's so weird that I play this woman who pretty much deals with violence on a daily basis, and I'm such a wimp in who I am.
Katey Sagal

Woman, Pretty, Play

I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.
Vince Cable

Trying, Rich, Union

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