Life Quotes
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I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
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I suffer greatly from nerves. I have stage-fright badly, and it gets worse, but the stage is still my life.
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Everything that went on in my life... it was super important for me to have Camden first. And by that I mean my son and to have that relationship with my son to give me that quiet confidence that I needed as a mother and as a woman. Now with Brooklyn, I am just so at ease; I am so comfortable.
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I used to have a fake Louis Vuitton bag because I thought it meant something in life. But now I realize that all the things in the world don't define you. It's what you stand for, what you're willing to do, how close to the truth you're willing to be in your life.
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The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.
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Far from ending, systemic racism reinvents itself to conform to what is publically acceptable, leaving the quality of black life diminished and more permanently fixed with each passing decade.
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Ignorance of the facts of life gave me my beloved son, Dickon, but at what cost to both him and me, I cannot hazard a guess.
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If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
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I treat the camera like a person - I gaze into it. Photos are a flat thing, and you need to put life into them.
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Do for this life as if you live forever, do for the afterlife as if you die tomorrow.
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It's very easy to make certain decisions that affect your life that you have no perspective on.
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When you grow up without a brother or sister, you tend to see things just through your own eyes. You have friends and everything, but you spend most of your time watching TV or sat in a room making decisions about your life on your own.
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If you like standup and decide that it's overtaking your life and want to hate it, watch 1,000 standup comedians who are trying to get on a TV show.
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Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life.
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You can't really be too calculated about everything in life.
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I want nothing to do with O.J. Simpson. I want that name so far behind me, I want it out of my life.
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Anything with the title 'Breaking The Barriers' means a lot to us, and to myself in particular, because if it wasn't for those who broke the barrier of color before me, I would not have the opportunity to live the life I'm leading right now.
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If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.
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Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.
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Life is a glass of wine and having your feet washed - it's a biblical event, might I add. This is part of mankind's story. You are always looking for a moment to take a break.
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I will always do stand-up, even if my acting career takes off. Stand-up is my life.
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It's humiliating, being told you're not responsible enough to make your own choices in life.
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Within a life that seems uncomfortably scripted by family and community pressures, hyper-religiosity can provide a way to break with parental expectations and flee from parental control.
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I think a lot of women, especially ones that want to achieve career goals, tend to worry. I don't want anyone to worry their life away - time goes by so fast, and worry is really wasted time and energy.
