Life Quotes
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I am not a politician but I have dedicated the biggest part of my professional life to economic policy both in Greece and Europe.
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One doesn't come to Italy for niceness," was the retort; "one comes for life. Buon giorno! Buon giorno!
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If they find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about our books, how are they going to believe those books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven.
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So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.
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When I left for college, I put Miami behind me and tried to have a life of the mind. I got a graduate degree. I traveled. I even married a fellow writer, whose only real estate was a dingy one-bedroom apartment in Paris, where we lived.
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For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.
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Even the bold will fly when they see Death drawing in close enough to end their life.
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Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
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The only minds which seduce us are the minds which have destroyed themselves trying to give their life a meaning.
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Iraq is a country I came to know well and the place where I spent some of the most consequential years of my life.
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I like to be surprised by life; it's a good thing to search for the puzzle pieces.
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How I feel is that if I wanted anything I'd take it. That's what I've always thought all my life. But it happens that I want you, and so I just haven't room for any other desires.
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Things change; your priorities change in life. So I'd never think of riding 100 miles on Christmas Day now, because I've got two kids, and it's selfish.
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I want to grow. I don't want to get stuck doing the same thing over and over and think I'm the best at it.
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The young artist of today need no longer say 'I am a painter,' or 'a poet,' or 'a dancer.' He is simply an 'artist.' All of life will be open to him.
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There's a lot of art that's about loss and sadness, but I would love it if hopefulness were more of a cliche. That's the work that always sticks with me and emboldens me in life.
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The greatest failure is the failure to try.
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Superstition is part of the poetry of life.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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Life is a question without a standard answer.
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Let us seek to extend the present life to the uttermost by observing every law of health, and by properly balancing labor, study, rest and recreation.
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The thing I love about acting is that it's got nothing to do with me; it's about bringing forth a director's vision. It's like a release. I'm glad it's come back into my life.
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Our object in life should be to accumulate a great number of grand questions to be asked and resolved in eternity.
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Real value isn’t in what you own, drive, wear or live. The greater value is found in love and life, health and strength, friends and family!
