Life Quotes
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I love talking to my friends at uni and seeing what they are doing. They're just finishing their dissertations, and I kind of wish I could live their life for a second. I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.
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Even I have been at that point in my life where I thought I didn't have enough extra money laying around to start investing in stocks for my own retirement plans.
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The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.
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American popular culture, like individuals in daily life, tends to either romanticize or demonize mothers. We ricochet between 'Everything I ever accomplished I owe to my mother' and 'Every problem I have in my life is my mother's fault.'
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There's a lot of things that were going on. I'd run out of OxyContin, I was doing a lot of Dilaudid. Dilaudid is like a millimeter down from OxyContin. I was doing a lot of those, and life just got super stressful for me.
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Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act.
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Take steps each day to be sure your life expresses commitment to Jesus.
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I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.
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I envy that man who passes through life safely, to the world and fame unknown.
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I've had so many hot, cheesy, corny loves of music in my life. I had a very intense Billy Joel period. So once you've really Joeled it up - there's some good periods of Joel; it's not all hot cheese. But I can't judge anyone else for their cheese. I've deep-sea dived in the Gouda.
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Shameless self-publicity works, of course: living your life as a soap opera.
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You can't really be too calculated about everything in life.
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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.
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In the winter of 2012, as my fiftieth birthday approached, I began to write what turned into my autobiography, a look at my own life through the lens of food.
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The reality of music itself, which is the fabric of life for me, is where most of my attention is.
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Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
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I want to impact some lives down the road, one by one, and I want people to look at my story and my life as an inspiration.
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When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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Life is a straight drink - straight pleasure, straight pain, straightforward, one hundred percent.
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The way I balance life and skating is by enjoying the time I spend away from the rink. When I am not on the ice, I am not focusing on skating.
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A part of me looks at life from a dismal perspective, not unlike Woody Allen and Larry David. But I don't want to look at life like that. It's bad enough that I have to think it. What works for me is writing against that view. There is God, there is love, there is greatness, there is a plan, and there is beauty.
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A romantic novel is an adult fairy story, repeating the recurring symbols and images which can explain life to a woman and satisfy a powerful need within her. The need to love and be loved is vital to all human beings, but especially to women.
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I wanted to make my stories, which are inspired by Asian stories, into something fresh, decontextualized - to give them new life as a new kind of fantasy that isn't so cloying and exotic and strange.
