50 Legendary Pieces Of Legit Life Advice From Celebrities

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50 Legendary Pieces Of Legit Life Advice From Celebrities

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Holly RiordanJune 24, 2016

Just because you love something doesn't mean it has to consume your days. It can just add richness and texture to your life.

— Lea Michele, Brunette Ambition

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Watching great people do what you love is a good way to start learning how to do it yourself.

— Amy Poehler, Yes Please

Career Passion Learning

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So pluck up your courage and take that risk! Add another story to the book of your life. Even if it doesn’t go the way you planned or wanted, you’ll still learn from it.

— Neil Patrick Harris, Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography

Adventure Courage risks

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A person’s tragedy does not make up their entire life. A story carves deep grooves into our brains each time we tell it. But we aren’t one story. We can change our stories.

— Amy Poehler, Yes Please

Tragedy Change Choices

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Adventure is important in life. Making memories matters. It doesn’t have to be a secret sea plane and an historic sports moment. But to have a great life, you need great memories. Grab any intriguing offer. Say yes to a challenge, and to the unknown.

— Rob Lowe, Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography

Challenges chances risks

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Some relationships aren't meant to be Great Love; they're meant to be like a hot fudge sundae--enjoyable but not something you can actually live on.

— Kristin Chenoweth, A Little Bit Wicked: Life, Love, and Faith in Stages

Relationships Love Dating

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Resentment is like drinking a poison and waiting for the other person to die.

— Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking

resentment Hatred

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Hating people isn’t a productive way of living. So what’s the point in hating anyone? There’s enough hate in the world as it is, without me adding to it.

— Ozzy Osbourne, I Am Ozzy

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I didn't say no, because between safety and adventure I choose adventure.

— Craig Ferguson, American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

Adventure enjoy life Safety

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Laugh loudly, laugh often, and most important, laugh at yourself.

— Chelsea Handler, Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea

Laughter enjoy life

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Life will throw everything but the kitchen sink in your path, and then it will throw the kitchen sink. It's your job to avoid the obstacles. If you let them stop you or distract you, you're not doing your job, and failing to do your job will cause regrets that paralyze you more than a bad back.

— Andre Agassi, Open: An Autobiography

Distractions Obstacles Life

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Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.

— Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

Talent Persistence Success

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Sometimes you just have to put on lip gloss and pretend to be psyched.

— Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)

Confidence Life Makeup

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Emotions are like passing storms, and you have to remind yourself that it won’t rain forever. You just have to sit down and watch it pour outside and then peek your head out when it looks dry.

— Amy Poehler, Yes Please

Feelings emotions Depression

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This is what I tell young women who ask me for career advice. People are going to try to trick you. To make you feel that you are in competition with one another. "You're up for a promotion. If they go for a woman, it'll be between you and Barbara." Don't be fooled. You're not in competition with other women. You're in competition with everyone.

— Tina Fey, Bossypants

Career Women Competition

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Never compare your insides to someone else's outsides.

— Rob Lowe, Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography

beauty inner beauty

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Teenage girls, please don’t worry about being super popular in high school, or being the best actress in high school, or the best athlete. Not only do people not care about any of that the second you graduate, but when you get older, if you reference your successes in high school too much, it actually makes you look kind of pitiful, like some babbling old Tennessee Williams character with nothing else going on in her current life. What I’ve noticed is that almost no one who was a big star in high school is also big star later in life. For us overlooked kids, it’s so wonderfully fair.

— Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)

teenagers high school Success

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Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don’t just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles.

— Tina Fey, Bossypants

Hard Work Problem Solving

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Maybe fear is God's way of saying, "Pay attention, this could be fun.

— Craig Ferguson, American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

Fear God enjoy life

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So, my unsolicited advice to women in the workplace is this. When faced with sexism, or ageism, or lookism, or even really aggressive Buddhism, ask yourself the following question: ‘Is this person in between me and what I want to do?’ If the answer is no, ignore it and move on. Your energy is better used doing your work and outpacing people that way. Then, when you’re in charge, don’t hire the people who were jerky to you.

— Tina Fey, Bossypants

Career Work Opinions

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Be careful who you choose as your hero or who you choose to deify, be it Clay Aiken or Barack Obama. You put all you're hope and all your dreams and all your ideas about stuff into one human being. They're a human being they're going to let you down.

— Craig Ferguson, Between the Bridge and the River

Hero humans Dreams Hope

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One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about.

— Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)

Friendship Love Laughter

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There are many ways of getting strong, sometimes talking is the best way.

— Andre Agassi, Open: An Autobiography

strength Communication

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You have to care about your work but not about the result. You have to care about how good you are and how good you feel, but not about how good people think you are or how good people think you look.

— Amy Poehler, Yes Please

Career Opinions Passion

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If you retain nothing else, always remember the most important rule of beauty, which is: who cares?

— Tina Fey, Bossypants

beauty Opinions looks

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Treat your career like a bad boyfriend. Here's the thing. Your career won't take care of you. It won't call you back or introduce you to its parents.Your career will openly flirt with other people while you are around. It will forget you birthday and wreck your car. Your career will blow you off if you call it too much. It's never going to leave its wife.Your career is fucking other people and everyone knows but you. Your career will never marry you. If your career is a bad boyfriend, it is healthy to remember you can always leave and go sleep with somebody else.

— Amy Poehler, Yes Please

Career Dating Passion

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The only way we will survive is by being kind. The only way we can get by in this world is through the help we receive from others. No one can do it alone, no matter how great the machines are.

— Amy Poehler, Yes Please

kindness Alone Friendship

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Work hard, know your shit, show your shit, and then feel entitled. Listen to no one except the two smartest and kindest adults you know, and that doesn't always mean your parents. If you do that, you will be fine.

— Mindy Kaling, Why Not Me?

Hard Work Parents Advice

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It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring.

— Tina Fey, Bossypants

Perfection Boring

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Life’s never a postcard of life, is it? It never feels like how you’d want it to look.

— Russell Brand, My Booky Wook: A Memoir of Sex, Drugs, and Stand-Up

Life appearances

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Saying ‘yes’ doesn’t mean I don’t know how to say no, and saying ‘please’ doesn’t mean I am waiting for permission.

— Amy Poehler, Yes Please

Permission Personality

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I think we should stop asking people in their twenties what they ‘want to do’ and start asking them what they don’t want to do.

— Amy Poehler, Yes Please

Goals Passion Career

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Be led by your talent, not by your self-loathing; those other things you just have to manage.

— Russell Brand, My Booky Wook: A Memoir of Sex, Drugs, and Stand-Up

Talent Self-hatred

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The most insightful thing I ever heard, was overheard. I was waiting for a rail replacement bus in Hackney Wick. These two old women weren’t even talking to me - not because I’d offended them, I hadn’t, I’d been angelic at that bus stop, except for the eavesdropping. Rail replacement buses take an eternity, because they think they’re doing you a favor by covering for the absent train, you’ve no recourse.
Eventually the bus appeared, on the distant horizon, and one of the women, with the relief and disbelief that often accompanies the arrival of public transport said, ‘Oh look, the bus is coming.’ The other woman - a wise woman, seemingly aware that her words and attitude were potent and poetic enough to form the final sentence in a stranger’s book - paused, then said, ‘The bus was always coming.’

— Russell Brand, My Booky Wook: A Memoir of Sex, Drugs, and Stand-Up

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I found out it is just as hard to make a movie that you are not proud of as it is to make one you love.

— Craig Ferguson, American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

Love Passion Hard Work

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If you don’t practice, you don’t deserve to win.

— Andre Agassi, Open: An Autobiography

Talent practice Success

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Allowances can always be made for your friends to disagree with you. Disagreement, vehement disagreement, is healthy. Debate is impossible without it. Evil does not question itself, only hope questions itself. Even the incorruptible are corruptible if they cannot accept the possibility of being mistaken.

— Craig Ferguson, Between the Bridge and the River

Friendship Evil Hope Corruption

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Uniqueness is what makes you the most beautiful.

— Lea Michele, Brunette Ambition

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Because what else are we going to do? Say no? Say no to an opportunity that may be slightly out of our comfort zone? Quiet our voice because we are worried it is not perfect? I believe great people do things before they are ready.

— Amy Poehler, Yes Please

opportunities risks chances

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My son and I are Americans, we prepare for glory by failing until we don't.

— Craig Ferguson, American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

glory Failure Success

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Do your thing and don't care if they like it.

— Tina Fey, Bossypants

Opinions Confidence

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The Universe is very, very big.

It also loves a paradox. For example, it has some extremely strict rules.

Rule number one: Nothing lasts forever.

Not you or your family or your house or your planet or the sun. It is an absolute rule. Therefore when someone says that their love will never die, it means that their love is not real, for everything that is real dies.

Rule number two: Everything lasts forever.

— Craig Ferguson, Between the Bridge and the River

Life Forever Love

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What you feel doesn’t matter in the end; it’s what you do that makes you brave.

— Andre Agassi, Open: An Autobiography

Brave Feelings Fear

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The one measure of true love is: you can insult the other.

— Russell Brand, Booky Wook 2: This Time It's Personal

insults Friendship Love

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Respect isn’t something you command through intimidation and intellectual bullying. It’s something you build through a long life of treating people how you want to be treated.

— Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl

Respect bullying

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Some people say, ‘Never let them see you cry.’ I say, if you’re so mad you could just cry, then cry. It terrifies everyone.

— Tina Fey, Bossypants

emotions Tears Feelings

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You’ve got to try and take things to the next level, or you’ll just get stuck in a rut.

— Ozzy Osbourne, I Am Ozzy

chances rut risks

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Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell.

— Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking

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If you're going to expend energy being mad about Photoshop, you'll also have to be mad about earrings. No one's ears are that sparkly.

— Tina Fey, Bossypants

photoshop looks beauty

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I came to the realization: Nothing in life is unfair. It's just life.

— Rob Lowe, Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography

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