Life Quotes
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There is nothing man desires more than a heroic life: there is nothing less common to men than heroism.
Jacques Maritain
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You are not waiting for your life to start. It's going on right now.
Jenny Slate
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I am not one to go for traditional female roles, because I don't think traditionally female characters are very interesting, and I don't think they represent real life.
Jessica Chastain
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What is patience but an equanimity which enables you to rise superior to the trials of life.
William Osler
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Prince William's pregnant wife, Kate Middleton, is past her due date. Doctors may have to induce labor. To speed up the birth, doctors have been telling the baby, 'Come on out. You will never have to work a day in your life.'
Conan O'Brien
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If we can't support a woman while she is giving life, then we don't support women.
Christy Turlington
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It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life.
Epictetus
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We've managed to keep a spirit of fun, I guess, of urban satire and finding new and odd interesting angles to the ways of life to put on the stage.
Adolph Green
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I think the life we are living now is just a blink in the eye of eternity.
Keir Dullea
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Writing is not a great profession as a lot of writers proclaim. I write because this is something I can do. Another thing—very often I think a lot of writers write because they have failed to do other things. How many writers can’t drive? A lot. They’re not practical. They are not capable in everyday life.
Ha Jin
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I often ask myself if I am afraid of being detained again. I love freedom as much as anybody else, maybe more than most. But it is a tragedy to live your life in fear. It is worse than actually losing your freedom.
Ai Weiwei
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I have been on my own all my life except during those touring days.
Cyril Cusack
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A career for me is something like building a bridge. You know, where to put the lifts. You have a plan. I have a blueprint for each film, but not for my life.
Claire Denis
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We participate and are responsible for a lot of the things that happen to us. If you hate your job, you are much more likely to get sick and die at a younger age than someone who's happy at work and has a nice family life and is mentally well adjusted.
Bernie Siegel
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I firmly believe everyone needs to have balance in their life.
Kylie Bunbury
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I still regard myself as an amateur today and I hope that's what I'll stay until the end of my life. Because I'm forever a beginner who discovers the world again and again.
Andre Kertesz
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Looking at flowers, simple things in life. I don't need to look at gold and a castle; sometimes its very simple things that are very beautiful. I am keeping my eyes fresh to find beauty in many places, and in gold, too, sometimes!
Francois Nars
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Life tol'ably queer. You think you've got a grip on it, then you open your hands and you find there's nothing in them.
Alvin C. York
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For how can a man stand, unless he have something sure under his feet. Can a man tread the unstable water all his life, and call that standing? Better give in and drown at once.
D. H. Lawrence
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My brother has the potential to become one of the top guys within Strikeforce. He had a very busy personal life; therefore, he wasn't training as hard as he should, but if he's going to pick up his training, he will be a danger for every fighter.
Alistair Overeem
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You're right on the money with that. We're all like detectives in life. There's something at the end of the trail that we're all looking for.
David Lynch The Platters
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I never bought a stock in my life. I don't understand it. To me it is like Chinese.
Lorraine Bracco
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I believe you can train yourself to become a positive thinker, but you must cultivate a desire to develop the skill of setting personal worthy and realistic goals. I am so thoroughly convinced that if we don’t set goals in our life and learn how to master the technique of living to reach our goals, we can reach a ripe old age and look back on our life only to see that we reached but a small part of our full potential. When you learn to master the principle of setting a goal, you will then be able to make a great difference in the results you attain in this life.
M. Russell Ballard
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The result of my life is no more than three words: I was raw, I became cooked, I was burnt.
Rumi