"Oh to reach the point of death and realize one has not lived at all."
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"I'm a big believer that you always reiterate, you always learn, you always realize your business is evolving."
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"The sordid qualities imputed to the enemy are always those which we recognize as our own and therefore rise to slay, because only through projection do we realize the enormity and horror of them."
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"I was very concerned about who was going to take my story and realize it, so I was very particular and spent a lot of time going over things with him, talking about how I wanted it to be told."
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"But it's only after you've played it on the road 20 or 30 times that it becomes really finished and polished...and you realize what it means, and you get the phrasing right."
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"I have never experienced anything like walking out onto the stage of an oversold venue and, before the first note is struck, realizing that there is not going to be enough oxygen for all of us."
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"When I am in Africa, I realize I don't know much, have not seen much, and there's a lot to be done."
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"When I go to Afghanistan, I realize I've been spared, due to a random genetic lottery, by being born to people who had the means to get out. Every time I go to Afghanistan I am haunted by that."
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"I should wish [Alain Robbe-Grillet] to realize that Guinea exists."
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"My agent called me at 5:30am, and I thought the set of my movie had burned down, or Josh [Hutcherson] had died, or something…I didn’t realize! I was so tired!"
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"Few persons realize how much of their happiness, such as it is, is dependent upon their work."
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"I don't know that the conservatives truly realize this yet, but they are talking about repealing the mandate that says you must have health insurance, and they're talking about repleaing the taxes that help to finance it."
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"There is an hour when you realize: here is what you have been given. More than this, you won't receive. And what this is, what your life has come to, will be taken from you. In time."
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"Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time."
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"The zestful but scientific exploration of possibilities and of the techniques for realizing them will make our hopes rational, and will set our ideals within the framework of reality, by showing how much of them are indeed realizable."
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"Being a person, I had come to realize, is a communal activity. Dogs know how to be dogs. But people do not know how to be people unless and until they learn from other people."
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"High School made me realize that the people who say they will never change, are always the ones who change the most."
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"Sometimes you think you know things, know things very deeply, only to realize you don't know a damn thing."
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"There were moments from my childhood when I remembered realizing that I was too big. I carried them around as weapons to use against myself, to remind myself there was something wrong with me."
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"In the end when you get your master back, you realize it's got absolutely nothing to do with what you thought it was going to be when you started."
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