Life Quotes
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We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
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I have had an extraordinary life, but it's been one incredible roller coaster ride.
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The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism.
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I had been a kind of natural mystic my whole life, growing up there in Tennessee next to the river. Somehow, that was important for my consciousness. I still don't study [mysticism]. I just wait for experiences.
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I didn't really discover 'Risky Business' until later in life because I was so young when it came out.
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Life involves other people and it is a compromise.
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There are autobiographical elements to the albums, and when I write, I always reference my own life as well as other things, so I'm just like any novelist or any fiction writer who tells stories.
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You should run your life not by the calendar but how you feel, and what you're interests are and ambitions.
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Shifting problems is the first rule for a long and pleasant life.
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God gives us life, but the world’s landlord is the devil….
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It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual.
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You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal.
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I grew up in the church, with traditional hymns, but at the same time I was beginning to listen to pop music, the mid-60s, The Beatles, which had just as much influence on me as those hymns did. Then the hippy stuff like Pink Floyd started to raise questions about how I lived my life and the world in which I lived.
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You're not supposed to risk your life just for the physical safety of American citizens - you're supposed to risk your life for American ideals as well.
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The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.
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While I didn't have a father around, I did have - and what I want my children to both experience - the ability to explore, experiment and enjoy life as a kid.
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Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white.
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In this life, it's not hard to do wrong.
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In love there are no penalties and no payments, and what is given is indistinguishable from what is received.
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I would not call it a difficult life, really. I just had a lot of challenges at a very young age.
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In my own life, when I was most inspired by a teacher, it always involved a real dialogue, a looseness and a real caring and compassion. It was not without rigor, not without discipline, not without standards, but all that was done out of love.
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If I had my life to live over again, I would have waxed less and listened more. ... I would have cried and laughed less while watching television ... and more while watching real life. ... But mostly, given another shot at life, I would seize every minute of it ... look at it and really see it ... try it on ... live it ... exhaust it ... and never give the minute back until there was nothing left of it.
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Anything worth achieving in life has a dip
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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation. There is in the living act of perception always something that glimmers and twinkles and will not be caught, and for which reflection comes too late.
