Life Quotes
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So much of what we see and hear about the Middle East focuses on what we call politics, which is essentially ideology. But when it comes to the Middle East, and especially the Arab world, simply depicting people as human beings is the most political thing you can do. And that's why I chose to write about food: food is inherently political, but it's also an essential part of people's real lives. It's where the public and private spheres connect.
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It is quite surreal having a film made about your life. The whole process of turning real life into drama is interesting in itself, but even more so when it is your own life being put into the narrative forge.
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We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.
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My entire life changed when I became a mother - my priorities, my understanding, appreciation of life, and my relationship with God.
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Probably the most memorable even of my life is when I was born. It really made me who I am. If I die, I hope to go out the same way I came in, but I don't think my mother would be into that.
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Whatever the theories may be of woman's dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens.
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Life's too short not to tell the people you love how you feel. Say it... and say it often. Oh, and start with God.
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By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here - the Infinite.
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It's the attitude about life, man. Looking at the light instead of the dark. Looking at love instead of fear.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.
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You must hold hard to life and do it. But life is a cheap thing beside a man's work. The only thing is that you need it. Hold it tight.
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It hurts how life goes on, unknowing.
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A life whose beginning we do not remember, and whose end we do not know.
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A relationship is like life. It isn't a process of preservation, but of change and growth. Unless you grow and change together, you will change ... and grow apart.
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Every choice in life either moves you forward or keeps you stuck.
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If you have two or three real passions, don't feel like you have to pick and choose between them. Don't discard. Keep all your passions in your life.
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Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!
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Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
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Live your life, experience something, and then you're going to have a lot of things to say. But if you hang around in Hollywood, then you're going to say the same thing as everyone else - nothing.
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This world of sense, built by the imagination--how fair and foul it is! Like a fairy island in the sea of life, it smiles in sunlight and sleeps in green, known of the world not by communion of knowledge, but by personal, secret discovery!
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We were put here as witnesses to the miracle of life. We see the stars, and we want them. We are beholden to give back to the universe. If we make landfall on another star system, we become immortal.
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For me, Chanel just makes sense - like a story or a film. It's part of my life.
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Life itself suggests a higher good than life itself can yield.
