Life Quotes
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Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Grey Life.
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Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial form.
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If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.
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Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.
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'Life as a Dog' is when I really started to feel comfortable, like I had the due north on my compass.
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If I don't write, I hate myself. Simple as that. My life is out of balance.
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What is most unconscionable is that there is not a shred of evidence to justify the certain loss of life. Do the generalized threats and half-truths of this administration give any one of us in Congress the confidence to tell a mother or father or family that the loss of their child or loved one was in the name of a just cause?
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Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived.
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I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
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There is no music in a “rest” that I know of, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody.
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As a leader, I believe it's important to have an open door with your staff. Those who want to learn and to grow in their careers will walk through that door and into your life. I encourage people to come and seek me out at 'Frontline' with good ideas, curiosity, and drive.
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All of our children have so much potential. All of our children deserve a chance at life.
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I have an imagination because my life is so boring that my imagination lets me get off the reality of what's going on.
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I've learned through experience that life is never that bad. The secret is just paying attention to how you feel and not letting anyone else dictate what in your heart you know is right.
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I dropped out of school, but I didn't drop out of life. I would leave the house each morning and go to the main branch of the Carnegie Library in Oakland where they had all the books in the world... I felt suddenly liberated from the constraints of a pre-arranged curriculum that labored through one book in eight months.
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Throughout my life, I have valued relationships far more than the professionalism.
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Often I have heard the taunt that suffragists are women who have failed to find any normal outlet for their emotions, and are therefore soured and disappointed beings. This is probably not true of any suffragist, and it is most certainly not true of me. My home life and relations have been as nearly ideal as possible in this imperfect world.
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Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety.
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And then finally, I'm the commander, so I am fundamentally responsible for the lives of the other people on board and the health and longevity of the space station. I need to bring six people back happy, healthy and feeling like they've had the best six months of their life.
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Autobiography should be more stringent. It should adhere more to the standards of journalism - assuming that journalism has the truth. The memoir gives you more scope, is more poetic, and allows you to play around with your own life.
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A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself.
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I don't think there is a need for an entity like God in my life.
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I remember someone telling me that when he saw the back of a woman's head, he knew that was the woman he was going marry. I laughed that away as silly talk. But I guess when a relationship has to happen, it happens seamlessly. Your partner just walks into your life.
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Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.
