Life Quotes
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Will you lose everything you've got if you open your own restaurant? Who knows. Will unleashing your secret desire to teach tap dancing ruin your reputation as a professional wrestler? Who knows. And who cares? Unless your unknown puts you at risk of death, prison, or bodily harm, you have nothing to lose except living a dull, uninspired life.
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I never imagined when I began writing in the early 1960s I'd become professional and my life would be transformed.
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My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
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Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.
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I say, "Look, I'm here now. There must be a reason I'm here." If that's fatalistic, be that as it may. Where my work is, is where my life is, and if we're falling in the ocean, we're falling into the ocean.
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I worked in restaurants the first half of my life.
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About fame... Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after.
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For life be, after all, only a waitin' for somethin' else than what we're doin'; and death be all that we can rightly depend on.
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Like an explorer returned from a distant planet or another dimension, Suki Kim has many extraordinary tales to tell, among them how different--and how awful--life is for those who live in North Korea. The devil is in the details here, for her gritty narrative focuses on everyday events to reveal how repression shapes daily life, even for the most privileged. Yet Kim also bears witness to that part of the human soul that no oppressor can ever claim.
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You can achieve much in life if you don't mind doing the work and giving someone else the credit.
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I'm lucky because I have the ability to look at the brighter side of life.
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The writer's life: Hard days, lots of work, no money, too much silence. Nobody's fault. You chose it.
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I drive Fords, and I've driven American cars all my life, and I want to have a strong American manufacturing sector, especially in automobiles.
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The saddest part about being human is not paying attention. Presence is the gift of life.
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I've never backed out of a fight in my life. That's not what I do.
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The loss of my brother was a huge moment, a life-changer for me.
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Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.
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A life allied with mine, for the rest of our lives... that is the miracle of marriage.
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The sky is the limit. I'm just following where life takes me. It's been an incredible journey.
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Music, to me, was - is - representative of everything I like most in life. It's beautiful and fun, but very rigorous. If you wanted to be good you had to work like crazy. It was a real relationship between effort and reward. My musical life experiences were just as important to me, in terms of forming my development, as my political experiences or my academic life.
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When life's conditions don't equal your expectations you are unhappy, have no expectations only appreciations (especially in the area of relationships)
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Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly.
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Do those serving life sentences deserve access to educational opportunities never having a future beyond bars? The answer is yes and necessitates that in-prison education serves additional goals beyond reducing recidivism.
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You should never ever ever have somebody else who is the foundation of your life. You need to be the foundation of your own sh*t.
