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When A Significant Other - A Spouse, A Parent Or Someone You're Close To - Is Dying, It Forces You To Think About Your Life, About What You Feel About Death. What I Realized From My Dad's Dying Was That I Wasn't Scared Of Dying. But I Was Terrified Of Regrets. I Was Terrified Of Getting To The End Of My Life With A Lot Of Why Didn't I's.

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Jane Fonda

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When A Significant Other - A Spouse, A Parent Or Someone You're Close To - Is Dying, It Forces You To Think About Your Life, About What You Feel About Death. What I Realized From My Dad's Dying Was That I Wasn't Scared Of Dying. But I Was Terrified Of Regrets. I Was Terrified Of Getting To The End Of My Life With A Lot Of Why Didn't I's.

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Fitness Motivational

I Think The Internet And Technology In General Has Changed Everything. We Can See It Overseas Even More With The Arab Spring And So Forth.

We Understand That Nixon's Aggression Against Vietnam Is A Racist Aggression, That The American War In Vietnam Is A Racist War, A White Man's War...we Deplore That You Are Being Used As Cannon Fodder For U.s. Imperialism. We've Seen Photographs Of American Bombs And Antipersonnel Weapons Being Dropped, Wantonly, Accidentally Perhaps, On Your Heads, On The Heads Of Your Comrades.

The Glow And Energy Of The Healthy Woman Is The Ultimate Beauty, The Only Beauty That Will Last.

Perfection Is A Toxic Desire. We Are Not Supposed To Be Perfect. The Challenge Is Not To Be Perfect, It's To Be Whole.

To Make The Revolution In The United States Is A Slow Day By Day Job That Requires Patience And Discipline. It Is The Only Way To Make It. . . . All I Know Is That Despite The Fact That I Am One Of The People Who Benefit From A Capitalist Society, I Find That Any System Which Exploits Other People Cannot And Should Not Exist.

It's Hard For Women At My Age In Hollywood, But I'm Not Discouraged.

Through Therapy And A Lot Of Thinking And Writing My Memoirs, I've Been Able To Use My Life As A Lesson.

Think About It: Reducing Crime And Poverty And Ensuring That We Have An Educated, Stable Work Force Has A Direct Effect On You And Me And The Future Of Our Country.

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