Life Quotes
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We women have lived too much with closure: "If he notices me, if I marry him, if I get into college, if I get this work accepted, if I get this job" -- there always seems to loom the possibility of something being over, settled, sweeping clear the way for contentment. This is the delusion of a passive life. When the hope for closure is abandoned, when there is an end to fantasy, adventure for women will begin.
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Music brings life to my soul.
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Trust me, I have never written a speech in my life, and if I have my way, I never will.
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I realise how pleasant life can be if I stop thinking about it. It is much simpler to exist than to live.
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What an immense power over life is the power of possessing distinct aims.
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Life has a way of disregarding even your best intentions.
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Of all the things you choose in life, you don't get to choose what your nightmares are. You don't pick them; they pick you.
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I've always been a fan of movies well before I got involved in the industry. The magic that it brings and being able to, I guess, escape your troubles, escape whatever is going on in life and getting to live in this moment and in the story and live in the lives of these characters.
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We tend not to use the biggest resource in healthcare - the patients themselves. So I'm trying to figure out possible uses for digital technologies like Facebook but also real-life social networks to improve healthcare provision.
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I have enough to last for the rest of my life.
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So many people never pause long enough to make up their minds about basic issues of life and death. It's quite possible to go through your whole life, making the mechanical motions of living, adopting as your own sets of ideas you've come to any conslusion for yourself as to what life is all about.
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Well, it's a good life and a good world, all said and done, if you don't weaken.
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Sometimes in life, you're not always given a second chance, but if you do, take advantage of it, and go out with a bang!
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Most people, if they were generous, were so because they thought life was short and that one must make the most of it. Sid Baxter was generous because he knew that life was long. It went on and on even when you had no use for it anymore. It was happiness, not life, that was short, and when it visited - in the form of a fine evening spent talking with a friend - he honoured it.
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We are living in a world where the individual must learn to command the raw materials of expression. He must not be dependent all the time on the ready-made, the finished product. It's the transferring, the changing of the raw into what is the expression of your own self – the whole joy and satisfaction and frustration of life is built into this.
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Oh what's love got to do, got to do with it What's love but a second hand emotion What's love got to do, got to do with it Who needs a heart When a heart can be broken
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The only way to make it through life is to fight.
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That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.
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So that my life be brave, what though not long?
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Name me a person in public life who doesn't have critics. Especially women in public life.
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Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
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She could not ignore life. She had to live it and it was too brutal, too hostile, for her even to try to gloss over its harshness with a smile.
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I just found it interesting to talk to adults I admired, and to discover that the path they took was never all that clearly defined. It was comforting to me when I figured out that you don't have to know what you want to do with your life; you just have to take a few steps in one direction, and other opportunities will open up.
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Though life is made up of mere bubbles 'tis better than many have, for while we've a whole lot of troubles the most of them never occur.
