Life Quotes
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If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man.
John Lancaster Spalding
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Sometimes we fall, sometimes we stumble, but we can't stay down. We can't allow life to beat us down. Everything happens for a reason, and it builds character in us, and it tells us what we are about and how strong we really are when we didn't think we could be that strong.
Gail Devers
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Sometimes I do pinch myself about the life I've had.
Dennis Farina
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The black masses must demand and refuse to accept nothing less than that proportionate percentage of the political spoils such as jobs, elective offices and appointments... They must reject the shameful racial tokenism that characterizes the political life of America today.
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
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I did an improv that was one of the most exhilarating ten minutes of my entire life. I mean, when you're doing it, you forget yourself.
Fiona Dourif
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In the '50s and '60s, the life of a gay man was a secret. Homosexuality was illegal, so you didn't draw attention to yourself.
Ian Mckellen
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We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
Earl Nightingale
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From a personal standpoint, I'd say that, yeah, seeing how quickly children grow, you realize how fast life goes by.
Mark Romanek
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The person who is to succeed will never let his mind dwell on past mistakes. He will forgive the past in his life and in the lives of other people. If he makes a mistake he will at once forgive it.
Ernest Holmes
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In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took every day, enjoyed the game of putting on that uniform and playing the great game of baseball.
Wade Boggs
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I think my stance and my way of life is my most important art.
Ai Weiwei
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It was failing part of my Ph.D. that led me into novel-writing. By then I was 29, had remarried and had a second baby. It struck me that I'd lost my path in life and I felt frustrated. That's when I started to write.
Kate Atkinson
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If you are willing to do only what's easy, life will be hard. But if you are willing to do what's hard, life will be easy.
T. Harv Eker
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Especially working with Adam Brody, he's just so funny in every day life. Working with him is a lot of fun. We play pranks on each other.
Rachel Bilson
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Men's weaknesses are often necessary to the purposes of life.
Maurice Maeterlinck
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Apart from death and taxes, the one thing that's certain in this life is that I'll never be a fashion icon.
Bruce Dickinson Iron Maiden
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I don't see life without a musical career. I really enjoy doing what I do.
Ella McMahon
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I always separated sports and my personal life.
Carl Lewis
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There have been a few friends who have taught me some great lessons in life. I wouldn't like to name them. They did things that I never expected out of them that left me heart-broken. It was during these rough patches in life that they left me alone. I know now that it was only my position that they were interested in.
Harbhajan Singh
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Being a wrestler is like walking on the treadmill of life. You get off it and it just keeps going.
Randy Savage
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And apparently things like a Vindaloo curry are out for the rest of my life, or at least a long time.
Lara St. John
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You have a whole life in the outdoors, you realize you have a sense of responsibility to protect these wild places.
Yvon Chouinard
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I have been cooking with preserved lemon for years, using it left, right and centre, but I am still far from reaching my limit.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
Dorothy Day