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Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another. Richard M. Nixon
Life History You Sense Think Guess Top Crisis Easy Some Something Take Bottom Another Survive Being After To Survive Meant Meant To Be Hard Things
White House staff are meant to coordinate and set policy, not carry it out. Richard N. Haass
White White House Out Carry House Policy Staff Meant Coordinate Set
Architects design buildings; that's what we do, so we have to go with the flow; and, even though I'm still an old Leftie, global capitalism does have its good side. It's broken down barriers - the Berlin Wall, the Soviet Union - it's raised a lot of people up economically, and for architects, it has meant that we can work around the world. Richard Rogers
Work Good Broken Capitalism People World Old Berlin Wall Down Design Side Though Berlin Architects Economically Global Around Buildings Does Still Go Lot Up Wall Soviet Soviet Union Meant Union Barriers Even Flow Raised
My success set me up for life, and it meant that I could retire from the music industry at 27 to spend time with my newborn daughter and my wife. My time away from the spotlight allowed me to rediscover my love for music, and I'm doing it for me now and no one else. Rick Astley
Life Success Love Music Time Me Wife Daughter Else Music Industry Spend My Time Could No-One Allowed Retire Industry Rediscover Spotlight Doing Up Newborn Meant Now Away Set
The decision in my case to become a stay-at-home dad, which people do all the time, I guess wouldn't have meant as much to people if I had had a very simple kind of make-a-living existence and decided I needed to spend more time at home. Rick Moranis
Time Home People Simple Decision Become Guess Spend Kind Stay-At-Home Case More Had Existence Very Decided Which Much Meant Dad Needed
Mom somehow made it to every one of my graduations - even when it meant she had to travel far away. Rick Scott
Mom Travel Made Every Somehow Had She Far Far Away Meant Even Away
I'm a great believer in the idea that if it's meant to be, it will be. Ricky Whittle
Great Will Great Believer Idea Meant Meant To Be Believer
My parents were both very intellectually honest, straightforward, and for them, faith meant that you were fully engaged. Rob Bell
Faith You Parents Both Were Intellectually Very Them Straightforward Engaged Meant Fully Honest
Hardly anyone liked R.E.M. who didn't like them way too much, so part of being an R.E.M. fan meant getting wildly overinvested and then feeling vaguely disappointed by whatever they did next. Rob Sheffield
Too Much Feeling Whatever Too Way Wildly Part Disappointed Like Liked Did Getting Being Anyone Fan Them Then Much Next Meant Who Hardly Vaguely
See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? Well, I've always had fast cars. It's not that. It's the fear that you're past your best. It's the fear that the stuff you've done in the past is your best work. Robbie Coltrane
Work Buy Best You Fear Car Past Crisis See Best Work Had Stuff Well Always Done Mid-Life Mid-Life Crisis In The Past Meant Your Fast Fast Cars
Ironically, the very fact that democracy has such a lengthy history has actually contributed to confusion and disagreement, for 'democracy' has meant different things to different people at different times and places. Robert A. Dahl
Democracy History People Confusion Fact Disagreement Very Times Ironically Different Places Lengthy Meant Different People Different Things Different Times Actually Things
There'll always be movies that are meant for the big screen, and they should be seen that way. Robert Englund
Seen Big Way Always Big Screen Screen Movies Should Meant
For me, the real pleasure in writing is in having an excuse to pursue my curiosity about people who have meant something to me. Robert Gottlieb
Me People Writing Pleasure About Something Having Pursue Excuse Real Curiosity Real Pleasure Meant Who
In 1980, after 10 years at 'The Times,' I was at a crossroads in my personal life. I loved my family, but I was also so obsessive about my work that I found myself devoting more and more time to it. I wanted to be everywhere there was a good story, and that meant I had to choose between that and being with the family on important days. Robert Hilburn
Life Work Time Myself Good Family Important Personal Life Everywhere About Crossroads More More And More Good Story Had Between Obsessive Days Also Years Times Personal Being Wanted After Loved Story Meant Choose Found
I struggled with each of these studies and I was uncertain about what they meant, and often confused, and then I tried to put together what I was seeing. Robert Jay Lifton
Together Confused Tried Seeing About Uncertain Struggled Studies Put Often Then Meant Each
They have increased readership, which is good, but I personally am not very turned on by e-books. The physical book has always meant something to me. I'm like the horse who goes back to the stall. I'm not that adventurous. Robert Loomis
Good Me Book Increased Back Physical Something Horse Adventurous Like Readership Always Am Very Goes Which Personally Stall Turned Meant Who
Irony is the recourse of the weak-minded wimp, I think. I hate bands that deliver their songs with knowing smiles on their faces, so that if those songs fall flat they can say 'Ah well, we never really meant it anyway.' It's so dishonest. Robert Smith
Hate Fall Think Say Those Faces Recourse Deliver Never Songs Knowing Smiles Well Bands Irony Dishonest Flat Anyway Really Meant
I'm not one of those New Age types that believe 'it's all meant to be' and that our lives have been scripted by an invisible hand. Robin S. Sharma
Age Believe Types Our Our Lives Those Invisible New New Age Been Hand Scripted Meant Meant To Be Lives
'Commonwealth' is not a word I ever used growing up in Colombo. There, in the late 1950s, it would have meant little more than New Zealand lamb and Anchor butter at the cold stores. Romesh Gunesekera
Word Cold Late Anchor Would More New Up Than Stores New Zealand Lamb Little Commonwealth Meant Used Growing Zealand Growing Up Ever Butter
I have never worried about having my finger on the pulse, because I consume music and cinema voraciously, and assumed that meant I would know all of the things my kids were into, even if I didn't like them. Romesh Ranganathan
Music Cinema Assumed Pulse Worried Kids Would About Finger Having Consume Never Like Know Because Were Them Meant Even Things
I was terrible at sport at school. I was fat, which made things slightly tougher, but it also meant that people were encouraging to the point of patronising. Romesh Ranganathan
People School Made Slightly Point Tougher Also Sport Terrible Were Encouraging Which Meant Things Fat
When people asked me back then what I wanted to be when I grew up, I said a basketball player, and I meant it. But I loved going to the movies. Ron Howard
Me People Back Said Up Going Wanted Grew Loved Movies Then Asked Meant Player Basketball Basketball Player
The first thing I ever got my hands on was Andy Griffith's 'What It Was, Was Football.' I was fascinated with the fact that every syllable made it funny, and I would laugh even though I didn't know what any of it meant. Ron White
Funny Made First Every Though Laugh Would Andy Fact Football Know First Thing Got Hands Hands-On Any The First Thing Meant Fascinated Even Ever Thing Syllable
Being under the microscope meant I was never given any slack. I still managed to screw up plenty in life, mind you, but in the things I really cared about - the legal work, or the stories I was telling as a writer, or the office I built in government - I wasn't left a lot of margin for error. It's kept me driven. Ronan Farrow
Life Work Government Me You Legal Mind Plenty Telling About Given Writer Driven Never Built Still Lot Left Error Up Office Microscope Any Being Stories Screw Really Meant Slack Things Margin Cared Kept
When greeting Pope Benedict a few years ago, I was meant to kiss the papal ring but I head-butted his hand instead. He just laughed at me. Ronan Keating
Me Kiss Few Laughed Ring He Instead His Years Years Ago Hand Just Greeting Meant Pope
When I graduated from college, I tried my hardest to get a job at an accounting firm, and it just wasn't meant to be. I ended up delivering pizzas and newspapers. I knew my life was cracked up to be a little more. Ronnie Coleman
Life Job College My Life Tried More Delivering Firm Knew Up Accounting Cracked Get Ended Graduated Just Little Newspapers Meant Meant To Be Hardest
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