Life Quotes

• My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millions of people throughout the world.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • World
  • Mother

• I like to play the weirdos. I like to play the people that are hard to like. You get to say and do things that you would never say and do in real life.

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • People
  • Real
  • Play

• One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.

  

  Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht
  • Life
  • Real

• 'Night They Missed the Horror Show' is my signature story. It changed my life, so it remains my favorite.

  

  Joe R. Lansdale
  • Life
  • Night

• When I was in school, you could pick any instrument you want, and they'd teach you how to play it. That changed my life. I loved playing music in school, and it sent me on my path as a musician.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Music
  • School
  • Path

• Whether it's your personal life or career, people feel they have carte blanche to everything that goes on in your life. I don't agree with that, but I do feel I have to share my thoughts on those things with people instead of totally avoiding it. I want to put it out there the way I want to put it out there.

  

  Faith Evans
  • People
  • Career
  • Thoughts

• I was miserable in WCW. I knew I wasn't going to go any higher there, and jumping to WWE hadn't even crossed my mind. I couldn't stop wondering, 'Is this it? Is this what I worked my whole life for?'

  

  Eddie Guerrero
  • Mind
  • Stop
  • Go

• I draw inspiration from my life, and, honestly, a lot of my religious beliefs have stemmed into my music.

  

  Lindsey Stirling
  • Music
  • Religious
  • Inspiration

• You want to have a toy and another toy, and that's not maturity. The biggest things in life are not materials.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Life
  • Want
  • Maturity

• If you're too much in control, you feel too secure in your shoes, and where's the emotion to keep going in life? To keep that spark going, you have to feel like an outsider.

  

  Mariacarla Boscono
  • Life
  • Control
  • Shoes

• Life's full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn't matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Fight

• I swing hard all the time. That's what I've done my whole life - hit.

  

  David Ortiz
  • Life
  • Time
  • Done

• My life is an open book. There is nothing to hide here.

  

  Karamo Brown
  • Life
  • Book

• When you're watching television, you don't want to watch a show where everything just works out. You don't want to see a relationship that's just blossoming and everyone's happy and sunshine and roses all the time. That's also not true in life.

  

  Candice Accola
  • Time
  • True
  • Happy

• When you discover first love as a teenager, your whole life revolves around it and you open yourself up to it.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Up
  • Love
  • Yourself

• When people evaluate their life, they compare themselves to a standard of what a successful life is, and it turns out that standard tends to be universal: People in Togo and Denmark have the same idea of what a good life is, and a lot of that has to do with money and material prosperity.

  

  Daniel Kahneman
  • People
  • Good
  • Money

• I think that idea that sort of our emotional self and our emotional life is a faucet that you turn on and off, and that we are in control of it entirely, that's a really appealing idea for a lot of people. But there are certainly the times where it's appealing to me, but it never quite works the way I hoped it would.

  

  Karyn Kusama
  • People
  • Control
  • Emotional

• I'm a big believer in living life as an extended working vacation.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Life
  • Working
  • Vacation

• The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Live
  • Past
  • Regret

• Maybe I couldn’t help everyone survive, but I could, at least, save this one life.

  

  Tiana Warner
  • Help
  • Survive
  • Save

• For me, it is a moment of anguish. All my life, my whole adult life, I believed in merger and unity of the two territories.

  

  Lee Kuan Yew
  • Life
  • Unity

• I think any opportunity you have to be green, whether it's in business or in everyday life, you should take it.

  

  Lauren Conrad
  • Business
  • Opportunity
  • Everyday

• Young people who were relaxed about posting every detail of their life on Facebook become a lot less relaxed when they realise just how transparent their life has become to future employers.

  

  Geoff Mulgan
  • People
  • Life
  • Future

• In fact, my main conclusion after spending ten years of my life working on the T

  

  Donald Knuth
  • Life

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