Life Quotes
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The universe will throw somebody a bone every now and then, and you win the lottery. But for the most part, you get in this life what you put in.
Arian Foster
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I'm the man who sits behind a table and tells true stories from his life. I'm also an actor. I was trained as an actor at Emerson College, and I use that training to play myself.
Spalding Gray
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If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
Michelangelo
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The savor of wandering in the ocean of deathless life has rid me of all my asking:
Kabir
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...nothing at all rides on the life or death of the individual.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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When you've been brought up in variety, I think timing is always important in your life. If I'm ever late for anything, whether it's personal or business, I always apologise. 'I'm sorry I'm late,' and all that. And if somebody is late meeting me, I expect them to say 'I'm sorry I'm late.' It's just, shall we say, showbiz etiquette of my day.
Bruce Forsyth
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For me, personally, life in South Africa had come to an end. I had been lucky in some of the whites I had met. Meeting them had made a straight 'all-blacks-are-good, all-whites-are-bad' attitude impossible. But I had reached a point where the gestures of even my friends among the whites were suspect, so I had to go or be forever lost.
Peter Abrahams
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I love the idea of going to work and having to fight and learn a new skill set, whether it's muay Thai or Kali or Filipino stick fighting. To me, it's like college for life.
Jeremy Renner
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Sometimes in your everyday life, you should say the right thing. But the wrong thing is funnier.
Ed Byrne
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I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know. And writing Langston Hughes replica poems became me wanting to write like Stevie Wonder.
Frank Ocean
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I want to see us build a country that is at ease with itself, a country that is confident and a country that is able and willing to build a better quality of life for all its citizens.
John Major
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I could not spend the rest of my life sitting in Brazil writing down who called whom uncle and aunt.
Alan Furst
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Sometimes you realize that life isn't defined by the good times.
Kenya Barris
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Her life was her book. She didn’t get to choose the ending, but the way she filled the pages makes her story irresistible.
Esther Earl
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Plants, again, inasmuch as they are without locomotion, present no great variety in their heterogeneous pacts. For, when the functions are but few, few also are the organs required to effect them. ... Animals, however, that not only live but perceive, present a great multiformity of pacts, and this diversity is greater in some animals than in others, being most varied in those to whose share has fallen not mere life but life of high degree. Now such an animal is man.
Aristotle
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When we look back over the landscape of our lives from any particular vantage point, we will find that the most valuable and the most precious things that we have ever enjoyed or experienced are caught up in the quality and quantity of the loving relationships that we have enjoyed. That if any time of life we look back and we have accomplished anything else in the world, financially or materially or politically or any other way, and we do not have high-quality loving relationships to fall back on and to remember and to think about and to enjoy, to that degree we have failed as human beings.
Brian Tracy
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The selfknowledge that gradually or abruptly alienates a person from his previous life.
Max Frisch
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I used to ask for an easy life, now I ask to be strong.
William Kent Krueger
