Life Quotes
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Show me the artist anywhere who's had an utterly stable mental life, and I'll buy you hot dinners for the rest of your life.
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If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.
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We ourselves, though we're guilty of every sin, are not just a work of God: we're image. Yet we have cut ourselves off from our Creator in both soul and body. Did we get eyes to serve lust, the tongue to speak evil, ears to hear evil, a throat for gluttony, a stomach to be gluttony's ally, hands to do violence, genitals for unchaste excesses, feet for an erring life? Was the soul put in the body to think up traps, fraud, and injustice? I don't think so.
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I cannot stress enough that the answer to life's questions is often in people's faces. Try putting your iPhones down once in a while, and look in people's faces. People's faces will tell you amazing things. Like if they are angry, or nauseous or asleep.
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I shall be richer all my life for this sorrow.
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But when you lose a family member or something tragic happens, that stays with you forever. You never get over it. Knowing that you have to deal with that for the rest of your life... Football is important, but not as important as you once thought it was.
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When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter. When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a new life.
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When thinking about the future, it is fashionable to be pessimistic. Yet the evidence unequivocally belies such pessimism. Over the past centuries, humanity's lot has improved dramatically - in the developed world, where it is rather obvious, but also in the developing world, where life expectancy has more than doubled in the past 100 years.
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We're all victims of what life deals out. It's how we handle it that's important.
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The powers that technology and independent contracting give to workers enables them to take greater control of their careers to preserve work-life balance.
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You can wait your whole life and never happen upon contentment.
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Life's too short to wear boring clothes and apply boring lipsticks, and BTW, I loved my blue lipstick.
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Growing up my whole life, my mom was telling me how incredible and special I was and that I was going to change the world. I think it's important for girls to know that they can change the world, that they do have an impact.
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Working on 'King Of Texas' was a life experience for me.
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It's a huge edge, sometime life-saving, to adopt a good idea early and put it into practice.
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You must personally accept the responsibility of improving your own life.
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If you want to make life easy, make it hard.
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The question is not so much whether there is life on Mars as whether it will continue to be possible to live on Earth.
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It doesn't take courage to drink too much and be wild or jump around. That doesn't take any kind of boldness, just riding a motorcycle or whatever the idea of being tough is. Tough is having four kids. Tough is committing to life and being disciplined.
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There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.
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Regret is just life's aftertaste.
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[On peanut M&Ms:] It is the eggness of them. A shell, chocolate placenta, proteiny peanut baby. Life shape, birth shape, cell shape, protoplasmic-ooze shape. A shape that calls straight through civilization to our reptilian brains.
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I have been registered Republican for most of my adult life. Not registered any longer.
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You know what I wonder about? This - the more details of Sven-Göran Eriksson's love life that appear in the press, the more contempt he attracts for his choice of substitutes in England games. Now, we haven't done the research, but my guess is that Sven's performances in the sack and that of his subs on the pitch are not correlated. So why do we link them?
