Life Quotes
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High school sucked. It was a universal truth, and whoever said these were supposed to be the best years of your life was probably drunk or delusional.
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My parents' divorce was very difficult. Divorce is essentially incredibly painful, but it's also an essential part of life.
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You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.
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It's been really important to me to create moments where there's a breath or moments where there's a laugh or moments where there's real life that's allowed to seep in through the cracks of whatever melodrama is happening, because that's what does happen in life.
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Terror, terror, terror. Life was a reign o terror in the shadow of the guillotine.
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In the United States, because we are a nation of laws, you can lose an election and keep your life. In the United States, you can lose an election where you can disagree with our leaders or our government, and you won't lose your business; you won't lose your family, and you won't lose your freedom.
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Nobody dies a virgin... Life fucks us all.
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You write the way you think about the world. My motto in times of trouble - and I'm speaking of life, not writing - is 'no humor too black.'
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Barack Obama's life was so much simpler in 2009. Back then, he had refined the cold act of blaming others for the bad economy into an art form. Deficits? Blame Bush's tax cuts. Spending? Blame the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. No business investment? Blame Wall Street.
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The Olympics is about showing what you've done with your life, your dream as an athlete and sharing that with the world.
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Whenever I refused to follow my fate, something very hard to bear would happen in my life.
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I was a bit of a big mouth my whole life. I'm a person who expresses themselves with a lot of openness.
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Life as a voice actress is tough. It's not an easy career.
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To outlive one's child is a terrible thing, but to do so because your child has taken his or her life is horrible.
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The secret of it all, is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood, of the moment – to put things down without deliberation – without worrying about their style – without waiting for a fit time or place. I always worked that way. I took the first scrap of paper, the first doorstep, the first desk, and wrote – wrote, wrote…By writing at the instant the very heartbeat of life is caught.
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To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
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I realized that a dancer's life is very short and I had so much of a creative energy in me that I needed outlets to do other things so that's when I started acting more and it all kind of blended together. When you're on stage you're acting and you're dancing, it started blended together now.
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My philosophy all my life has been the pursuit of excellence.
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I just absolutely, totally hated school. It was like a prison to me. I just could not stand that structured, absolute disciplined way of having to deal with life.
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Jackie's dream was France, but mine was really art and Italy, as that was all I cared about through school. My history of art teacher, who saved my life at Farmington, was obsessed with Bernard Berenson, and I succumbed as well.
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It's better to bet on this life than on the next.
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The only real antidote to worry or problems is systematic, purposeful action in the direction of your goals.
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My wretched dragon is perplexed.
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A great disaster is a symbol to us to remember all the big things of life and forget the small things of which we have thought too much. In his death he has reminded us of the big things of life, the living truth, and if we remember that, then it will be well with India.
