Life Quotes
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When American life is most American it is apt to be most theatrical.
Ralph Ellison
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Kids need stuff which is different than what their life is that they can kind of live through.
Kathy Valentine
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Only love matters in the bits and pieces of a person's life.
William Trevor
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I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
Rita Mae Brown
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I only hope that when I am free, as they are free to go in quest, of the knowledge beyond the bounds of life, it may not seem better to me to rest.
Robert Frost
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Don't shut love out of your life by saying it's impossible to find time. The quickest way to receive love is to give; the fastest way to lose love is to hold it too tightly; and the best way to keep love is to give it wings.
Brian Dyson
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I must have something to engross my thoughts, some object in life which will fill this vacuum, and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart.
Elizabeth Blackwell
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Because of the dog's joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reason why we should honor as love the dog of our own life, and the dog down the street, and all the dogs not yet born.
Mary Oliver
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I spend my nights just sitting and reading a book and drinking my tea and walking my dog. That's about as exciting as my life gets.
Peter Dinklage
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I can't stay friends with anyone who doesn't have a passion for something; and, generally speaking, artistic people, creative people carry it right into the kitchen, too. They have a zest for life; the excitement of living. All of the great eaters I've known are also men of great wit.
Alan King
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To be truly empathetic, we have to acknowledge that we're all human, we're all flawed, and that life can be difficult.
Joe Gebbia
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People close to me called me 'Curry in a Hurry.' I was moving through life at 100 miles an hour trying to further my career and be a great mom and make everyone happy.
Ann Curry
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You can't appeal to us through our wombs, we're pro-life. The fetus beat us. We grew up with sonograms. We know life when we see it.
Kellyanne Conway
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There was no way I was going to write about Africa and not include the triumphant continuity of life that had also been part of my experience there. It's not just war and famine all the time.
Lynn Nottage
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I don't ever want to get too comfortable in my career or life. My nature is such that I'm always looking for new challenges.
Mary Frann
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A hairdresser holds a trusted place in a woman's life.
Linda Wells
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I just thought to myself, 'What am I doing? Is this how I'm going to live my adult life, banging my head, especially with what I've learned and know about the dangers?'
Chris Borland
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If just once you were depressed for no reason, you have been so all your life without knowing.
Emil Cioran
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We do need women in civic life. We do need women to run for office, to be in political office. We need a feminist to be at the table when decisions are being made so that the right decisions will be made.
Dolores Huerta
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Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.
Margaret Drabble
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We have to acknowledge that adolescence is that time of transition where we begin to introduce to children that life isn't pretty, that there are difficult things, there are hard situations, it's not fair. Bad things happen to good people.
Laurie Halse Anderson
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Life is about change, sometimes you just have to roll with the punches.
Caroline Manzo
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I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don't know.
Bill Gates
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My mother had been an actress and we came from that world in New York, the theater world and the downtown sort of theater scene, and so I guess we didn't really have what you'd call like a Hollywood kind of life at all.
Martha Plimpton