Life Quotes
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'Wild Swans' showed me there are Chinese traditions that still affect my life. For example, it's not that women are inferior, exactly, but my dad and my brother are the most important men in my life and I would do anything for them. I feel like I should be the one cooking and looking after them.
Katie Leung
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I love life. I think it's fantastic. Sometimes it deals hard things, and when it deals great things, you have to seize them.
Sam Taylor-Wood
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Jurors realize that instead of having to make that terrible decision (voting for the death penalty), they can vote to put someone in prison and ensure that defendant is no longer a harm to society. It makes it easier for them to return a verdict of life without the possibility of parole.
Robert Falcon Scott
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There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.
Bernard de Mandeville
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I've been pretty focused my entire life, and now that I have a family, I'm just going to keep that focus, but it's going to be a family focus.
Wiz Khalifa
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You have to change your life for yourself, and it's about the fun of getting there - sitting in the tour van, breaking down on the side of the road, you know, having a laugh with the guys in the band, making mistakes with nobody watching.
Imelda May
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For me, I don't like it when there is too much interference in our lives. We're not children. It is our own life in our hands.
Eric Cantona
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
Pat Conroy
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The real issue is not whether two and two make four or whether two and two make five, but whether life advances by men who love words or men who love living.
Colin Wilson
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I've always felt that my life's been at the right place at the right time; I feel like there's been some really dull moments, really high moments, really low moments, but it's always felt like everything's moved in the right direction; it always feels great, and everything feels right.
Olly Murs
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I guess I don't think there's any reason to feel guilty about having joy in your life, regardless of how bad things are in the world.
Jeff Tweedy
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
J. M. Coetzee