Life Quotes
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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
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To give people that first start in life is a tremendous privilege. It's one of the great joys of being part of a growing company.
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The greatest failure in life is to stop trying.
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O master poet, I have sat down at thy feet. Only let me make my life simple and straight, like a flute of reed for thee to fill with music.
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If Obama has his way, the change that is coming is a new America: 'fair,' leveled and social democratic. Obama didn't get elected to warranty your muffler. He's here to warranty your life.
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Life is absolutely horrific, leading up to absolute horror.
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Progress is possible. I know because I've seen it in the lives of people across America who get knocked down and get right back up. And I know it from my own life.
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I give a speech at some colleges and corporations called 'Performing Your Life: An Evening with Jeffrey Tambor.' I get asked a lot of questions, and people say, 'Your stories are wonderful. You should write a book.'
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Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
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I don't have a publicist, I don't go to events, I don't do magazines, and it's just not my life.
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No murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
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I consider it to be the meaning of my whole life and my obligation to serve my fatherland and our people.
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A healthy love life is not and should not be the preserve of those in their 20s and 30s. It's important at all ages.
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The idea of childhood as a social invention, in retrospect, is hardly credible. In the Bible, in writings of the Greeks and Romans, and in the works of the first great educator of the modern era, Comenius, children were recognized as being both different from adults and different from one another with respect to their stages of development. To be sure, the scientific study of children and the increased length of life in modern times have enhanced our understanding of age differences, but they have always been acknowledged.
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Life is awesome as a college athlete, and then it's a total cliff to jump off.
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One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all the possible consequences of their acts.
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The fact that my environment influences my life so much - and that my environment is in my control - gives me a great sense of empowerment over my health and my life.
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To get people to pay for something that you built, it has to be of service. It has to make somebody's life better.
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Watching daring, high-tech criminals in action, I have the same thought that probably occurs to other moviegoers: if these guys just held on to some of the money they spend on equipment, they wouldn't have to turn to a life of crime.
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I have, like, three suits to my name. But one thing I've learned is that when you dress up in real life, people treat you differently.
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He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more then his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men, he should have knowne no more than other men.
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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'm not an historian and I'm not wanting to write about how I perceive the social change over the century as a historian, but as somebody who's walked through it and whose life has been dictated by it too, as all our lives are.
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I don't suppose that I know more about life than anyone of my age, but it seems to me that, in the capacity of an interlocutor, a book is more reliable than a friend or a beloved.
