Evel Knievel Quotes
A man can fall many times in life, but he's never a failure until he refuses to get back up.
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If I could distil the relevance of Bruce Springsteen's music to Australia it would be this: don't let what has happened to the American economy happen here. Don't let Australia become a down-under version of New Jersey, where the people and the communities whose skills are no longer in demand get thrown on the scrap heap of life.
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It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality.
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I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
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Laughing and crying are very similar. They're an extreme response to life. You see it in children who start laughing hysterically.
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We need to accept that consumption is not the end goal of our life and stop measuring our well-being simply on the basis of earnings. We need to explicitly take the quality of our work-related life into account in judging our well-being.
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Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.
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When it comes to literal nourishment, the food we eat, life begets life.
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Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.
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I want to live my life, not record it.
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I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.
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All my life, people have made fun of the way I speak. I guess because a lot of my vocabulary is made up of things that other people say. I started making fun of them and imitating them and now that's how I speak.
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I think the first 10 years of my daughter's life were my mother's happiest, because she could finally have carefree time with a kid.
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My life was really focused on futbol, but as those things happen in life, my passion for music won over my passion for futbol. But I love what I do. I don't regret it.
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I feel like my life experience is that of an outsider. Let me explain: my parents are from Panama, and they moved to the United States the year after I was born. They moved into an all-white neighborhood, where the previous black family had a cross burned on their lawn.
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If I don't write, I hate myself. Simple as that. My life is out of balance.
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You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which 'clicks.'
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The right to life is guaranteed to all Americans in the Declaration of Independence, and ensuring this is upheld is the Constitutional duty of all members of Congress.
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A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it.
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Every day, hundreds of millions of people stab themselves, bleed, and then offer, like a sacrifice, to the glucose monitor they're carrying with them. It's such a bad user interface that even though in the medium-term it's life or death for these people, hundreds of millions of people don't engage in this user interface.
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Technically, my first paying job was I was an extra in my dad's movie 'Dan in Real Life.'
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Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.
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Movies are romantic fantasies.
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Games are the most elevated form of investigation.
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A man can fall many times in life, but he's never a failure until he refuses to get back up.
