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I think life is the sum total of your experiences.
Danny K. Davis /
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Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.
Thomas Carlyle / Philosopher
Men
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Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.
Wayne Dyer / Author
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I have always felt that I am the sum total of my parts.
Andres Serrano / Photographer
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Character is that sum total of moments we can't explain.
George Saunders / Writer
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You are the sum total of the choices you make every day.
Brit Marling / Film Actress
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Choices You Make
Day Every Day Make
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The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.
Duke Of Wellington / Former First Lord Of The Treasury
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History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.
Konrad Adenauer / Former Chancellor Of Germany
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Hollywood is like life, you face it with the sum total of your equipment.
Joan Crawford / Dancer
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We've always said Psychic TV's music is the sum total of who's in it at the time.
Genesis P-Orridge / Singer-Songwriter
Time Music Always
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Psychic
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We are a sum total of what we have learned from all who have taught us, both great and small.
Myles Munroe / Author
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Everyone is the sum total of past experiences. A character doesn't just spring to life at age thirty.
Kelley Armstrong / Writer
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Led Zeppelin was an affair of the heart. Each of the members was important to the sum total of what we were.
Jimmy Page / Musician
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Islam will be what Muslims make of it. And it is the sum total of the interpretation that Muslims give to it.
Maajid Nawaz / Political Activist
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Muslims
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Our life is the sum total of all the decisions we make every day, and those decisions are determined by our priorities.
Myles Munroe / Author
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All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.
H. P. Lovecraft / Author
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Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
Isaac Bashevis Singer / Author
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The sum total of all my stop-starts have made me less concerned about the future. I'm just aware now that I'll always land on my feet somehow.
Joel Edgerton / Actor
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Future Always Me
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I happen to be a 64-year-old woman who lives in Manhattan, so on and so forth, but am I the sum total of my sort of bodily coordinates? Well, of course not.
Deborah Eisenberg / Short Story Writer
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It is only of life on Earth, however, that one can speak with any certainty. It seems to me that all life on Earth, the sum total of life upon the Earth, has purpose.
Clifford D. Simak / Writer
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At any point, the sum total of human knowledge is not, 'Here's the world as it is perfectly,' it's, 'Here's the best we know so far and we're always willing to be proven wrong.'
Adam Conover / Comedian
Human Knowledge
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Perfectly
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I don't have any single character that is my favorite because I would like to be known for the sum total of my work and not for an individual character that I might have played.
Pankaj Kapur /
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The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.
Claiborne Pell /
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It has been a tremendous privilege to serve the people of Utah during my time in the United States House of Representatives, but my time in the House should not be the sum total of my service.
Jim Matheson /
House Of Representatives
My Time
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Utah
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Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious.
Daniel Libeskind / Architect
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In many ways, each of us is the sum total of what our ancestors were. The virtues they had may be our virtues, their strengths our strengths, and, in a way, their challenges could be our challenges.
James E. Faust / Lawyer
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In discussing the process with the actors, I made it clear to them that they could improvise but that the sum total of their improvisation needed to impart certain plot points, and schematic material.
Mike Figgis / Film Director
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The ability and desire to transform the mundane materials at hand that we both bring into the collaboration well beyond the sum total of the parts - to birth a new baby neither of us could claim single parentage of.
Gary Lucas / Guitarist
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Materials
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New Baby
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You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.
Maya Angelou / Author
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Inspiring
Positive
Heard
Powerful
Everything
Because
Us
Sure
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Try
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Seen
You
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Eaten
Ever
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It'll be all of our efforts together. It won't won't ever be exactly the way I imagined it. And that is, I think, an important lesson as well, is that in any group enterprise it's going to be the sum total of the group.
James Cameron / Film Director
Enterprise
Total
Efforts
Exactly The Way
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What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete.
Alfred De Vigny / Poet
Civilization
Details
Indifferent
Noble
Real
Advance
Cares
Carries
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Grand
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If Marxist theory dictates that the personal is always political, the rebuttal of both 'The Americans' and 'House of Cards' is that the political is always personal: the sum total of our collective needs and desires, vows and betrayals.
Steve Erickson / Novelist
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House Of Cards
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I do one accent - my own. I can make it louder or quieter. That is the sum total of my vocal range. I thought I could do an American accent until I tried it in front of an American - the expression of horror is still burnt onto my retinas.
John Oliver / Comedian
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Accent
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American Accent
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As a writer, I've always been the sum total of my influences, and those are all over the spectrum: Rachmaninov, the Who, the Beatles, the Beach Boys, Lesley Gore, Burt Bacharach and Leonard Bernstein, the Rolling Stones and the Small Faces.
Eric Carmen /
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The sum total of what I learned about African American culture in school was Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and the Underground Railroad. This was more than my mom knew; she didn't even see a black person in real life until she was 18 years old.
Ashley Graham / Model
American Culture
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On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.
Hu Shih / Philosopher
Death
Knowledge
Achievement
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Self
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You're trying to form this human being that will fit the bill, and the human being becomes a hand, and the research is a glove, and you try to bring this character together into the research, mesh it, and create this person that is the sum total of all that endeavor.
Timothy Spall / Character Actor
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I was a kid that grew up listening to The Beatles and The Stones and Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck, and I wanted all of that in there. But at the same time, a large part of my playing is Tony Iommi and Billy Gibbons. I'm just a sum total of all of the guitar players that I think were really cool.
Joe Satriani / Guitarist
Jimmy
Stones
Beck
Billy
Clapton
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Jeff
Jeff Beck
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I can and do aspire to be greater than the sum total of my experiences, but I accept my limitations. I willingly accept that we who judge must not deny the differences resulting from experience and heritage but attempt, as the Supreme Court suggests, continuously to judge when those opinions, sympathies and prejudices are appropriate.
Sonia Sotomayor / Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
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You will ultimately be defined by the sum total of your responses to circumstances, situations and events that you probably couldn't anticipate and indeed probably couldn't even imagine. So just keep your eyes on the course and be ready to move in different directions depending upon the crises and opportunities with which you are faced.
David Stern / Counsel
Opportunity
Anticipate
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Different Directions
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Ready
Eyes Your Keep
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