Life Quotes
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Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil.
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I got a sense of the amazingness of ordinary life, and I became aware of the marvel that we're around to begin with. I visited a lot of extreme communities, like the Amish, Hasidic Jews, and serpent-handlers. And I was proud, because I think I'm the first person to ever out-Bible-talk a Jehovah's Witness. After four hours, he said, "Okay, I have to go."
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The Church, therefore, has two constant needs; instruction in the truths by which it must live, and correction of the shortcomings by which its life is marred.
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I think one needs a companion at some point in life.
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I am heartily sick of this life & of the nineteenth century in general. I am convinced that every thing is going wrong.
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My whole way of thinking is, your life is almost like a movie, and you are costuming each day as you go.
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Don't confuse having a career with having a life.
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Basically, you can live your life in one of two ways. You can let your brain run you the way it has in the past. You can let it flash any picture or sound or feeling, and you can respond automatically on cue, like a Pavlovian dog responding to a bell. Or you can choose to consciously run your brain yourself. You can implant the cues you want. You can take bad experiences and sap them of their strength and power. You can represent them to yourself in a way that no longer overpowers you, a way that "cuts them down" to a size where you know you can effectively handle things.
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I learned about the strength you can get from a close family life. I learned to keep going, even in bad times. I learned not to despair, even when my world was falling apart. I learned that there are no free lunches. And I learned the value of hard work.
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I operated on too many people who could have avoided surgery if they'd simply made healthier choices earlier in life.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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Asking the government to help you for short periods of time is different than asking the government to take care of you for the rest of your life.
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I have always lived my life exactly as I wanted. I've tried to please no one but myself... but I'm entirely content. I can sit back in my old age and not regret a single moment, not wish to change a single thing. It's what I wish for you...a life with no regrets.
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The greatest failure is the failure to try.
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I've been a Democrat all my life.
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Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Albert Camus, Graham Greene - they influenced my life to a profound extent.
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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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Sometimes, people who are very fastidious about what they're going to do in their work are not very fastidious in their private life. I'm like that. I love it when people do really nice things around me, but I don't have time to do it for myself. It's very hard for me to even buy a new pair of trousers.
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Death and the end of one's life are two very different things indeed.
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Live for this life as though you live in it forever and live for the life to come as though you die tomorrow.
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In many ways, I think I've always overcompensated. I was always almost too careful, because I knew if anybody ever found any way to doubt my work, then they'd start picking my life apart, too.
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When you first get started, you're the only one with a vision. When you become creative and use your imagination, pretty soon the things you imagined, you can get done. If you got a taste of it, if you got a taste of what I'm talking about, you'd rather do that than eat. You couldn't get enough of it. You'll hunger for it the rest of your life.
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You never know what the future holds or where my life will take me.
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I don't have a religion, you know. This is what I am. I am a Rastaman; so this is not religion. This is life.
