Life Quotes
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The next day, at breakfast and during the entire drive to Milan, he talked passionately about what he considered the most exciting period of his life, the years between 1945 and 1948. I heard in his voice a genuine melancholy, which vanished, however, when he went on to describe with an equally genuine enthusiasm the new climate of revolution, the energy—he said—that was infusing young and old. I kept nodding yes, struck by how important it was for him to convince me that my present was in fact the return of his thrilling past.
Elena Ferrante
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Before you are five and twenty you must establish a character that will serve you all your life.
Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood
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I prefer a life in which we don't take ourselves too seriously.
Carter Burwell
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You always have to give 100%,because if you don't someone, somewhere will give 100% and they will beat you when you meet.
Ed Macauley
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If you don't live a normal life, how do you relate to people?
Scott Speedman
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You can't choose what you're famous for in life.
Dave Kellett
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Women and girls have been my passion for my whole life.
Kathy Calvin
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The portraits are VERY difficult to make. The use of a skeleton creates an interesting balance between life and death.
Nick Veasey
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You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into that world, whether it be actually something that you recognize from your own life or not.
Christian Bale
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What is flirtatiousness but an argument that life must go on and on and on?
Kurt Vonnegut
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I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.
Steve Jobs
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When I got into graffiti, it was the most-exciting art form and it changed the course of my life.
Ben Eine
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His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled on to God and not weary him, though it has wearied man.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed.
James Boswell
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A phenomenon occurs but because you're in the middle of it, you just think it's your life-until it's over. And then you look back and say, What an unusual thing happened to me in the '60s.
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
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Throughout my life, I've seen the difference that volunteering efforts can make in people's lives. I know the personal value of service as a local volunteer.
Jimmy Carter
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Literacy affects the physiology as well as the psychic life of the African. (p. 38)
Marshall McLuhan
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It's a wonderful world. You can't go backwards. You're always moving forward. It's the wonderful part about life. And that's terrific.
Harvey Fierstein
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I didn't want to spend my life behind a desk.
John Gilpin
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Thinking about death... clarifies your life!
Candy Chang
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A lot of people now think Im a shoe. They dont even know I was a tennis player. The shoe has really taken on a life of its own, way beyond me.
Stan Smith
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I've been very lucky in my life to have some great teachers.
Brian Lindstrom
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I started reading all these men's magazines, trying to follow all the tips: what you're supposed to wear, what you're supposed to have, things you're supposed to say, and all the exercises you're supposed to do.
Ryan Gosling
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People had always vaguely mentioned that when you have children, how part of your life would stop. But they don't say that some other extraordinary part of your life opens up.
Cate Blanchett