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Rage is a short-lived fury.
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
Being a model, you know, it's a short-lived vocation.
And I didn't. That's why my career was very short-lived.
Peace won by compromise is usually a short lived achievement.
The whole basketball world, it's a fantasy and it's short-lived.
Love that has nothing but beauty to keep it in good health is short-lived.
Fame is short-lived, and you're the last to know when you are no longer hot.
Unprincipled governments are inevitably unstable, unsuccessful and short-lived.
To be quite honest, the joyful relief of the publication of my book was short-lived.
I knew Kathy Joosten; we worked together on a very short-lived series called Thanks for CBS.
Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived.
I knew Kathy Joosten; we worked together on a very short-lived series called 'Thanks' for CBS.
Mixtapes are always small scale to me - they never get taken seriously, and they're always short-lived.
Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
A rock musician's career is short-lived. To extend it, you need to do other things to keep yourself fresh.
I enjoyed my time in Houston but it was short-lived and it really didn't make a huge impression on my life.
If, for a moment, it seemed that September 11th could be identified with Iraq, the illusion was short-lived.
My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned.
I constantly know that showbiz is going to be short-lived, you have to grab every opportunity as well as you can.
Markets may in the short-term correct. But in a bull market the correction is always sharp, swift and short-lived.
I never go to parties. I never go to premieres. You can't play that game, because it's short-lived and you want a life.
I try to inhabit each of the characters as fully as I can, however short-lived they are. But most of my show happens offstage.
I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material - something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.
Journalists like to say I started off sweeping the pottery floors. But it was just a short-lived part time job doing that after I left school.
When I try to be patient on my own, my patience is forced and short-lived. It is obvious to everyone that I am desperately trying to be patient.
One of my previous incarnations is as a question writer, so I'd worked on shows like 'The Weakest Link' and a couple of very short-lived ITV series.
Long-lived persons have one or two lines which extend through the whole hand; short-lived persons have two lines not extending through the whole hand.
I believe designers should eliminate the unnecessary. That means eliminating everything that is modish because this kind of thing is only short-lived.
It's a short-lived career and I think I am in my prime now. I'm 34-0 and I want to go to 35-0 in spectacular fashion, and then the world is my oyster.
Lust is temporary, romance can be nice, but love is the most important thing of all. Because without love, lust and romance will always be short-lived.
This is a very short-lived career. I have to do what's best for myself. I have to do what's best for my career and being on top for as long as possible.
Kids only have a certain number of years to be kids, and the last thing we should be doing is incarcerating them for wanting to make that short-lived magic last.
To have a dutiful family, the father's principle of rule must be love, not fear. His sway must be gentle, or he will have only an unwilling and short-lived obedience.
The naked thing was short-lived. It was only around for about six months because we thought it was shocking. Once people expected us to do it we kind of never did it again.
A significant U.S. troop presence in Afghanistan has been continuous since October 2001, and President Obama's short-lived 'surge' in 2009 was a continuation of his predecessor's buildup there.
Both of my parents were super music lovers when I was growing up - they had a massive record and tape collection. I think my dad even had a couple of laser discs, but that was a short-lived thing.
Sponsorships and marketing are oftentimes pretty short-lived. From a company's standpoint, they're often not looking to do tremendously long contracts. They're always trying to catch the next big thing.
If people recognize me from 'The Vampire Diaries,' they just give me that look that's like, 'I think I know you. I think I saw you boxing in 1912, but I'm not sure,' because it was such a short-lived run.
The policies and laws executed by the grand mufti in Libya, the long-term agenda in the short-lived Morsi government in Egypt, and by ISIS in its ideal Islamist Ummah are incompatible with the Constitution, period.
I was dating girls who were actresses, and that was fun, so I took a playwriting class. But that was short-lived. That was one year. Around that time, I was seeing movies that were making me think in terms of images.
Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler's short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Europe was wrenched from its normal purposes and converted into a machine for killing.
Despite what you hear in the news from the Obama administration and the military, our strategy of conducting infrequent airstrikes and re-taking pockets of Iraq and Syria terrain will only help us achieve short-lived tactical victories.
Moments of crisis, like the shooting in Newtown, tend to produce brief spikes of popular interest in gun control. My research on media attention suggests these spikes are extremely short-lived, and that they may be decreasing in intensity.
I want people to know me for my singing. I've never been searching for a label of being a fashion plate or a top model. That's a thing that's very short-lived, and it's dealing with a superficial level of this which doesn't really appeal to me.
A lot of my favorite battle rappers didn't have that much commercial success, so I figured I might as well figure out how to make songs, because I don't want to have a short-lived career or a career that is confined in just that realm of music.
We've accounted for 95 percent of all the stars in the Milky Way. The other 5 percent are big, bright stars - the kind that dominate the night sky, but are lamentably both rare and short-lived. If biology's your thing, you can forget those guys.
So making the choice to be involved in the pro wrestling industry is always looked at as a short-lived choice, and there are very few and far in between opportunities to continue a career in wrestling if your time is up as a wrestler, as a female.
I think the best thing about my short-lived political career was that I saw the interiors of Bihar and UP. That is the real India, and, being an Indian, it was really sad to see our own people living in such dismal conditions. It was a real eye-opener.
Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War II and was all but done for by 1960 (although visit any art school today and you'll find a would-be Willem de Kooning).