Life Quotes
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When you grow up, you tend to get told that the world is the way it is, and your life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family life. Have fun, save a little money. That's a very limited life.
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If you lead a simple life, and that story is written, then that story will not satisfy. It needs an angle. Suppose there is no angle?
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It's not the rooms, it's the life you live in them.
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At the age of 40, having ordered meat very rare in restaurants all his life, he realized he actually liked it medium and not at all rare.
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Who you allow into the circle of your life will make the difference in the quality of your life.
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You don't bring in a gay character as a way of commenting on gay issues. You have one there because he's real, and that's his life, no less so than your life is yours.
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My weight has fluctuated my whole life, and because I've been on television since I was 11 years old, everyone has seen it.
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The people who will succeed fifteen years from now, the countries which will succeed, are those which are most based on a sustainable vision of the world. That is what we should be training people to do
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A grass blade believes that men build palaces for it to grow in. Grass wedges its way between the closest blocks of marble and it brings them down. This power of feeble life which can creep in anywhere is greater than that of the mighty behind their cannons.
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One of the delights of life is eating with friends; second to that is talking about eating. And, for an unsurpassed double whammy, there is talking about eating while you are eating with friends.
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It's just person after person in every different country that has a life that I can’t even imagine and has gone through horror that I can’t even imagine.
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Word I was in my life alone, / Word I had no one left but God.
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It's a lot of work living the life that you want to live, but that's what I'm doing.
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A self-made man, if he is made at all, has already won the battle of life. . . . he has learned to resist. He has learned the value of money, and how to refuse to spend it. He has learned the value of time, and how the conversion of it into useful things will make of his life something worthwhile. He has learned to say no, to say no at the right time and then to stand by it. Without resistance, and the self-denial which it often imposes, there is no real happiness. In the quest for happiness man must learn that temptation resisted strengthens the mind and the soul.
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There are two kinds of stories, the ones you live and the ones you make up. And nobody knows the difference, and I don't ever tell which is which.
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Better to struggle through life with a broken wing than have no wings at all.
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There is no more delightful hour in life than that of an unconfessed but mutual love.
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When it comes to your creative life and what it's going to take, you will do a disservice to everybody if you just dabble.
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In my life, I'm an expert on a few things. Losing close elections is one of them. Electric utility regulation is another. Neither is a barrel of laughs, but both have their moments.
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I feel that I have had a blow; but it is not, as I thought as a child, simply a blow from an enemy hidden behind the cotton wool of daily life; it is or will become a revelation of some order; it is a token of some real thing behind appearances; and I make it real by putting it into words. It is only by putting it into words that I make it whole; this wholeness means that it has lost its power to hurt me; it gives me, perhaps because by doing so I take away the pain, a great delight to put the severed parts together.
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I am always being described as having views that I've never had in my life.
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The earth is a fickle place for all life, not least the human project of civilization.
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She says that beginnings are scary, endings are usually sad, but it's the middle that counts the most.
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Doing what you're afraid of, getting out of your comfort zone, taking risks like that- that's what life is.
