Life Quotes
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Innocent amusements are such as excite moderately, and such as produce a cheerful frame of mind, not boisterous mirth; such as refresh, instead of exhausting, the system; such as recur frequently, rather than continue long; such as send us back to our daily duties invigorated in body and spirit; such as we can partake of in the presence and society of respectable friends; such as consist with and are favorable to a grateful piety; such as are chastened by self-respect, and are accompanied with the consciousness that life has a higher end than to be amused.
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The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.
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I cannot keep a girlfriend longer than seven months. I have 12 jobs. I don't have time for my personal life. I'm fully aware that this is the sacrifice.
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I want people to know me as a real person, that I struggle with the same things they do, that I had to teach myself how to get through life in efficient ways.
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It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
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Here are a few of the actors who have brought my novels to TV life: Bill Pullman, Holly Hunter, Frances McDormand, Julian Sands, Gena Rowlands, Rob Lowe, Julia Ormond, Chelsea Hobbs, Tate Donovan, Anne Heche, Max Martini, Campbell Scott, Kimberly Paisley-Williams, Alexa Vega, and the late legends Richard Kiley and Kim Hunter.
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Life is a flash of lightning in the dark of night. It is a brief time of tremendous potential.
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The young man who's had the Guggenheim fortune behind him all his life - he can hire all the authorities on the subject to teach him how to do a monologue, but he's never going to have the right stuff to pull it off. If he doesn't walk out onstage needing to walk out there, he doesn't have a dream of doing well.
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If I'm 'the kid from 'Hereditary'' for the rest of my life, I'll be satisfied.
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Suppose you could be hooked up to a hypothetical 'experience machine' that, for the rest of your life, would stimulate your brain and give you any positive feelings you desire. Most people to whom I offer this imaginary choice refuse the machine. It is not just positive feelings we want: we want to be entitled to our positive feelings.
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I wouldn't do the music thing if it weren't for my brother, who's a producer. He understands me and helps my vision come to life.
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No straight lines make up my life; And all my roads have bends; There's no clear-cut beginnings; And so far no dead-ends.
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Any kids out there, I'd tell them try and do what you can. If you need the medication, you need the medication. I didn't want to take a pill for the rest of my life.
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It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and - even more surprising - it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.
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Besides my love for horses and cars, I am passionate about making the cheapest vaccines in the world. I started making life-saving drugs when I was 22.
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I live my life, breathless... A life of constant motion and excitement. A life that many will envy and most would avoid!
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Sometimes a script comes along that really makes you sit up and pay attention... 'Life at These Speeds' has an emotional intensity that really kicked me in the guts.
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I find meeting someone that you fall in love with and are going to be with for the rest of your life a miracle.
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He spent his life immersed in books to the cost of everything else, even personal relationships. "Friends," he'd once said, "are probably great, but I have forty thousands friends of my own already, and each of them needs my attention.
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Thought from which no emotion springs is sterile. The knowledge that has no bearing on the conduct of life is vain.
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Self-preservation is the central aim of all life-activities.
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Life is hard, but there are moments, sometimes hours - and, if you're really lucky, full days - where everything feels just right.
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I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
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I would not take for granted that my personal life - because I knew better than anybody - that it was just a life. It was surprisingly an ordinary life.
