Life Quotes
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It's not my ambition to direct lots of films. I think if I direct one film in my whole life, why rush it?
David Thewlis
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I know I live a charmed, beautiful life and nobody wants to hear a celebrity whine. The last thing I want to do is complain; I love what I do and I know every job comes with a downside.
Jennifer Garner
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Coming through the fire and through the storm of life with a strong man, my fiance Ashanti, whom I've been dating for eight months and two wonderful children beside me, I'm just so happy that I have been able to maintain my integrity and get to where I am today with the right energy around me.
Angie Stone
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My father grew up in a life of extreme privilege.
Kevin Kwan
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A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.
George Jean Nathan
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Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
Henry David Thoreau
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There's a lot of pressure on kids, period, just to be successful in life.
Kenan Thompson
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Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.
Saint Augustine
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Those of us who know the transporting wonder of a reading life know that it little matters where we are when we talk about books or meet authors or bemoan the state of publishing because when we read, we are always inside, sheltered in that interior room, that clean, well-lighted, timeless place that is the written word.
Alice McDermott
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To really know life you've got to be part of life. You must get down and look, you must get into the nooks and crannies of existence. You have to rub elbows with all kinds and types of men before you can finally establish what he is.
L. Ron Hubbard
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A ballerina's life can be glorious. But it does not get any easier. I don't think anyone must ever think about it getting easier.
Alicia Markova
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The Gospel offers forgiveness for the past, new life for the present, and hope for the future.
John Sentamu
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Going out into life--that is dying. Christ is the door out of life.
Henry Ward Beecher
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I'm not a quester or a searcher for the truth. I don't really think there is one answer, so I never went looking for it. My impulse is less questing and more playful. I like trying on ideas and ways of life and religious approaches. I'm just not a good candidate for conversion.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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There was a time in his life that he was really interested in making money and his business -- and he had fun with it. But now it just doesn't seem to hold his interest.
Paul Wachter
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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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The month of November makes me feel that life is passing more quickly. In an effort to slow it down, I try to fill the hours more meaningfully.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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You have to count on living every single day in a way you believe will make you feel good about your life - so that if it were over tomorrow, you'd be content with yourself.
Jane Seymour
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If I could have a family and a home one night, and all of it's gone the next, that must mean that life has the capacity to change. And then I thought, 'Whoa! That means that just as change happens to me, I can cause change in my life.'
Liz Murray
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Food is a big part of my life.
Blake Griffin
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I nearly died three times in 2008, and when you go through those experiences, you realize that you're blessed every day that you wake up. My world changed, my life changed, and with the help of my wife Jane, I was able to survive.
John Roy Anderson Yes
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I never really understood fashion as a career. For me, it was really a state of mind, more like something that I always had in my life.
Nadège Vanhee-Cybulski
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You will attract to yourself people who harmonize with your own philosophy of life, whether you wish it or not.
Napoleon Hill
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As with most people, my ideology and my attitudes about life were informed by parents and family.
David Harsanyi