Life Quotes
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Life is overwhelming. Life is not easy. Life is tough and you need something that really works and helps you actually, not promises to help you, then fail.
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There has to be life after the Charlotte Mayor's office.
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The enduring life is the one that begins once we awaken from this world. And it is in that awakening that we realize... It was only a dream
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The ideas that define Western civilization, Nietzsche said, are based on Christianity. Because some of these ideas seem to have taken on a life of their own, we might have the illusion that we can abandon Christianity while retaining them. This illusion, Nietzsche warns us, is just that. Remove Christianity and the ideas fall too.
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In chess, as in life, opportunity strikes but once.
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The Internet shapes my life and work so completely that I couldn't imagine living without it.
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The test of the life of a saint is not success, but faithfulness in human life as it actually is.
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I worked for many years as a writer for children and then wrote two adult novels of the kind they call 'literary' without any very great disturbance to this kind of life. Then, something went wrong. My third adult novel was rejected by the publisher of the first two. And I could not understand the criticism offered.
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All my mates are at university, and it's a life I haven't had a chance to enjoy, so it's great to turn up and sample a bit of it.
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I've worked hard all my life. You have to if you want to get things done.
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Although there are real hazards in saying yes to life, they are inconsequential when compared to the regrets that come with saying "no".
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A person's tragedy does not make up their entire life. A story carves deep grooves into our brains each time we tell it. But we aren't one story. We can change our stories. We can write our own.
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There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations--these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat.
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I really enjoyed 'Casino Royale' because suddenly something changed with this modernity and with Daniel bringing life to James Bond in a very new way.
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My faith is a very important part of my life. I do not feel that I have become president of this country by accident, but that I have been chosen because nobody can accuse me of favouring the Albanian Muslims or the Orthodox.
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I think you have to be pragmatic to the approach of life and brutally honest with yourself. We all are here to do something, and it is important to understand our potential first.
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It's possible that we could change a human gene and double our life span. I don't know if that's true, but we can't rule that out.
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I'd like them to see that those things that set us apart or make us different can be wonderful contributions to the world around us. I'd like them to see that size and color are irrelevant to the dreams we envision for ourselves. And I'd also love for them to see that life is a journey, and every step of the way, we can learn something and become stronger and wiser.
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I think that obstacles lead to growth and ultimately, the most learning I've done in my life is between jobs.
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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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There are two kinds of people in one's life-people whom one keeps waiting-and the people for whom one waits
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The chain of life runs smoothly from one generation to the next and none of the links stand out except here and there a link one sees by accident.
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Cancer doesn't just happen to me; it happens to my best friend; it happens to everyone who means something in my life... The truth is, it does take a village to take care of somebody who's sick, and so we just, at all times, tried to be authentic to the actual experience we had.
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For me, filmmaking is not exactly a career. I was never in it for Hollywood or anything. My films are markers of where I am in life, where I am in my head. So that's what I'm working on, and I try to keep things in proportion - life and filmmaking. One feeds into the other.
