Life Quotes
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The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.
David Ogilvy
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The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.
Bill Gates
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I always say snowboarding saved my life. It gave me a reason to focus on the future; it gave me something to be passionate about.
Amy Purdy
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In my mind, New York was the place where they had the underground rap shows and I could get in on some ciphers and just rap. This whole fantasy world I had created in my head about New York just from listening to the music my whole life, like, I'ma go up there and do that. But when I came up here, there was none of that, that scene was dead.
J. Cole
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Duane lived life right on the edge. If you ever read Goethe's Faust, Duane Allman was very much that kind of figure. His deal with Mephistopheles was to experience everything life has to offer, good and bad.
Butch Trucks
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I hope it does not take the rest of my life until I find what it is I've been looking for.
Billy Joel
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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us.
Marianne Williamson
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If there can be three certain things in life, instead of two, it might be death, taxes, and data.
Clara Shih
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I knew that I was going to dedicate my life to music and that was it.
Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
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I used to ask for an easy life, now I ask to be strong.
William Kent Krueger
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All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.
Blaise Pascal
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Many books have changed my life, but only one has the word 'life-changing' in the title: Marie Kondo's 'The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying.'
Elif Batuman
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I was inspired by World Vision. It's almost like I sponsored (Donald) Faison and gave him an opportunity to do something with his life. What more would he want than to work with me?
Zach Braff
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You can sort of start to write around 10. You also become a good reader around that time, and you want to imitate the thing that you love. I got praise for it, and then I found that it was a great way of translating my life, so I would write little stories and plays and things. At that point, it was kids' books that I was reading.
Andrew Sean Greer
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Nothing is so false as human life, nothing so treacherous. God knows no one would have accepted it as a gift, if it had not been given without our knowledge.
Seneca the Younger
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If we don't know life, how can we know death?
Confucius
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Courage is an angel which makes the difference between a good life and a great life.
Kate Reed
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Think of how much we stress about living up to our "potential," and how it creates anxiety and terror in people; in short, stops them from living their life as fully as they might out of fear and self-loathing.
Emily Susan Rapp
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Fame invades your private life. It takes away from the time that you spend with friends, and the time that you can work. It tends to isolate you from the real world.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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I will always have dogs in my life, and I absolutely can't be with someone who will challenge that or disagree with that stance - I will not budge on this, ever.
Jenna Morasca
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My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.
Armistead Maupin
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I acknowledge the right of the authorities and the press to satisfy themselves as to whether I am the anthrax mailer. This does not, however, give them the right to smear me and gratuitously make a wasteland of my life in the process. I will not be railroaded.
Steven Hatfill
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The Koran says the killing of an innocent, the taking of an innocent life, is tantamount to killing all of mankind.
Queen Noor of Jordan
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My favorite thing is still journalism. I'm almost 50. This has been my life ever since I was in college.
David Talbot