Paul Lisicky, in his new memoir, 'The Narrow Door,' describes losing his old friend, the novelist Denise Gess, and his husband, the acclaimed poet and memoirist Mark Doty, within a year of each other: Gess to cancer, at the age of 57, and Doty to another man.
Alexander Chee
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This whole thing about winning and losing is muddy waters. But I can remember, as a young actor, just walking around this city and not being able to get arrested.
Jeffrey Tambor
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I refuse to see losing as a negative. Obama lost in '83 when he ran against Bobby Rush. Hillary lost in '08. Even Lincoln lost the first election. It's a useful learning experience.
Reshma Saujani
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I don't think that when I'm acting I feel like I lose myself to it, but that sense of losing, that sense of discomfort, well, I guess maybe that comes a bit! It's about redefining what 'uncomfortable' means for you.
Rachel Keller
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Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it.
Dianne Feinstein
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
Aldous Huxley
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You know, when you run you got to be all in and you take risks of winning and losing.
Jeb Bush
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I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.
Muhammad Ali
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
Orson Welles
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When I play poker, I don't like losing the pot.
Drew Carey
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I know that I am leaving the winning side for the losing side, but it is better to die on the losing side than to live under Communism.
Whittaker Chambers
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I never wanted to be famous. I want to be more famous than I am so I can get the roles. I hate losing the roles. I was famous more for being around people who were famous, and I hate that kind of fame.
Johnathon Schaech
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At the heart of any terror is the fear of losing what we find meaningful.
Mark Z. Danielewski
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Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.
Natalie Cole
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Don't judge a person on winning or losing.
Dong Dong
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Women right now kind of have this idea of success - putting your career first and then having kids. On one side, it's perfect and it's a great plan, but on the other side, they don't explain to you that after age 35, you start losing eggs.
Thalia
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The cinema has done more for my spiritual life than the church. My ideas of fame, success and beauty all originate from the big screen. Whereas Christian religion is retreating everywhere and losing more and more influence; film has filled the vacuum and supports us with myths and action-controlling images.
John Updike
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Sport and life is about losing. It's about understanding how to lose.
Lynn Davies
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I've certainly had periods when I felt like life was winning and I was losing, so I think everybody can relate to that quandary - the temptation to give in, to give up, and then what It takes to keep going.
Malcolm Gets
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At a time when we are losing manufacturing jobs in this country, we should be doing everything we can to help our manufacturers stay competitive. They are the backbone of our economy.
Debbie Stabenow
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I've never been with a losing team in my life, and I don't think I'll start now.
Vince Lombardi
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Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.
John Podhoretz
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Time limits are fictional. Losing all sense of time is actually the way to reality. We use clocks and calendars for convenience sake, not because that kind of time is real.
Leslie Marmon Silko
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Just losing a couple pounds takes so much stress off your joints. Your body feels better.
Larry Fitzgerald
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