Life Quotes
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There's no conscious plan here; my whole life in politics as a state legislator and in Congress has been about strengthening the middle class.
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Your own inner capabilities and potentials are more varied and powerful than you realize. The purpose of this book is to enable you to recognize and use them in daily life. You use them now, but in a subdued and inefficient manner. They work in spite of you.
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Many people come to reinvention when life changes around them, but people come in all different stripes. I'm oriented to change.
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I can't help but recall my dad and mom. Depression era kids, 8th and 9th grade educations, clawed and scratched to make a living as dairy farmers their whole life. At least two drought cycles nearly took it all away. They just worked harder, longer... and they made it.
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Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I'm able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.
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You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them.
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I always wanted children, but not until they were actually part of my life did I realize that I could love that fiercely, or get that angry.
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Women are special custodians of all that is pure and religious in life.
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Comedians are innately programmed to pick up oddities like mispronounced words, upside-down books on a shelf, and generally undetectable mistakes in everyday life.
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Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.
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Human society is based on want. Life is based on want. Wild-eyed visionaries may dream of a world without need. Cloud-cuckoo-land. It can't be done.
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Am I getting nobler, better, more helpful, more humble, as I get older? Am I exhibiting the life that men take knowledge of as having been with Jesus, or am I getting more self-assertive, more deliberately determined to have my own way? It is a great thing to tell yourself the truth.
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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.
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I have never been interested in personal gain or profit. This business and this studio have been my entire life.
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I don't believe that you are ever done. Is life ever going to stop and stand still? We have to move as fast as the world is moving.
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I am convinced that success is not measured by what you get out of life, but by what you give back.
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My entire life has been a lie.
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Your real life is in the here and now. Once you figure out what kinds of experiences cause you to feel certain ways, you can change either the experiences, or when that's not possible, change your responses to them.
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I had been working early in my life in films - since I was 11.
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It's life. You don't figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride.
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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.
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Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
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My life story is something obviously that belongs to me very personally. And the fact of the matter is that I had choices and chances and opportunities that were provided to me, based on the way I was able to direct my own decision-making. And what I'm working to fight for is to make sure that all women have the ability to do that.
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And I been waitin' all my life And I been havin' big dreams times twice
