Life Quotes
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If the story is good enough, if it's imaginative enough, if it's moving enough it is going to reach deeper than the level of sheer information and change somebody's life two degrees. That is an enormous achievement.
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I am, of course, aware that the ultimate solution is the ownership and control of the means of life by the whole of the people; but we are not at that stage of development as yet.
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Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.
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I alone, as the sharer of their way of life, presented a replica of childhood.
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Some of the greatest moments in life come from moments that are incomplete.
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I was afraid of the pain of dying and terribly reluctant to leave the world behind because I liked life a lot, even if it had been pretty tough sometimes.
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I've always felt that if you pay your bills and can take care of yourself without too much stress, then it's a pretty damn good life.
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People talk of the courage of convictions, but in actual life a man's duty to his family may make a rigid course seem a selfish indulgence of his own righteousness.
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Predation is part of the everyday life of capitalism, in sectors as mainstream as pharmaceuticals, software and oil - where people's money, their data, their time and their attention are routinely taken in fundamentally asymmetrical exchanges.
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Every person can reach a full life.
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I've learned over and over that life happens on its own terms, not mine.
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No one lives on the top of the mountain. It's fine to go there occasionally -for inspiration, for new perspectives. But you have to come down. Life is lived in the valleys. That's where the farms and gardens and orchards are, and where the plowing and the work is done. That's where you apply the visions you may have glimpsed from the peaks.
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I can't just pretend to be someone else all my life. I have to mix it up.
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There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.
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I was the typical 20-, 25-, 28-year-old going around, going, 'Life is great. Life is fine.'
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And love can come to everyone, the best things in life are free.
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I think you have to be willing to take a bullet for somebody if you're going to stand up there, take your vows, and be married to them for the rest of your life.
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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.
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Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.
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Your rewards in life will be determined by what you do, how well you do it, and the difficulty of replacing you.
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Spiritual security means you are fully alive and comfortable in your life as it is, without expecting anything.
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I focused my life on things that are a little more dependable, like my family and things that actually make me happy, rather than momentary flashes of success or anything like that.
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In some ways, I always thought you're better off behaving like a rock star when you're a normal person. Because if you do it as a rock star, you'll end up in the papers and your life will be made a misery.
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I love to sing swing and shuffle stuff. Radio may not play it coast to coast, but I love playing them. Man, they fill the dance floor up. People who live the night life at these honky-tonks eat this stuff up.
