Life Quotes
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The future will be in the hands of those of you who belong to the 21st century. You have the opportunity and responsibility to build a better humanity. This means developing warm-heartednes s in this very life, here and now. So, do whatever work you do, but ask yourselves now and then, 'How can I contribute to human beings being happier and more peaceful?'
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Though the theories of plate tectonics now provide us with a modus operandi, they still seem to me to be a periodic phenomenon. Nothing is world-wide, but everything is episodic. In other words, the history of anyone part of the earth, like the life of a soldier, consists of long periods of boredom and short periods of terror.
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I sang in church choir all my life, through elementary school, junior high and high school.
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The single life is not one I willingly chose for myself.
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My influences come from real life. I'm not interested in cinema for cinema's sake. I'm interested in life - what one does and how one interacts.
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In the U.S., my whole life, I felt like I had to be the best and score more goals and run with more fitness so I could be the one in the limelight. I think that when I went to Sweden, I found the joy of being part of a team and contributing to everybody's success.
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Discovering your purpose doesn't have to be complicated. Look at what you do and why you do it. Is it to support your family? That's your purpose. Is it to make a difference in your customer's life? That's your purpose.
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With such riches as I have in life, you're always nervous. Being Irish, you're waiting for something to knock it sideways.
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Fraternity life, for me, really was about cheap rent and three square.
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I don't like to act because my life is a pantomime anyway.
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That's how life is: there are peaks and valleys in life, and that's how I like to write songs.
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I was one of those people who just flitted about in life. I had no plans and no sense of direction.
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What is life, but the gentle effacement of a tree shedding its leaves?
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And he realized... that fragile, mortal life wasn't just important to him. It was more important than his own.
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My grandmother wanted my father to be a teacher because she was a teacher. He didn't go down that road until much later in life; he just kind of retired after almost 20 years as being a visiting lecturer at Stanford, where he got his graduate degree.
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I'm socially awkward in life, and that's one of the reasons why I do what I do. I'm more about interpreting other people's words.
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I've aged. 'Patagonia' has robbed me of a decade of my life.
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I just hate to lose. When I am on the court, it is like my life depends on it.
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Capitalism is always in danger of inspiring men to be more concerned about making a living than making a life. We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to humanity-thus capitalism can lead to a practical materialism that is as pernicious as the materialism taught by communism.
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I like to talk about weirdness. We all have strange thoughts and ideas, and when you really trust someone you can express them. And they can express them to you, and that's one of the joys of life.
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Still, what I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled - to cast aside the weight of facts and maybe even to float a little above this difficult world.
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Life is different than it was in the Nineties. I'm a dad, and there are other things I have to get done in an afternoon than just being an artist.
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Yeah, I've always sung, and I always try to find a way for music to be in my life.
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The inventory process and stepping back in your life can sometimes be a very dark process. But it also can be extremely funny and surprising.
