Life Quotes
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I knew from an early age exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a musician and that was it. It made life a lot easier knowing what I was aiming for.
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As you open yourself to living at your edge, your deepest purpose will slowly begin to make itself known. In the meantime, you will experience layer after layer of purposes, each one getting closer and closer to the fullness of your deepest purpose. It is as if your deepest purpose is at the center of your being, and it is surrounded by layers of concentric circles, each circle being a lesser purpose. Your life consists of penetrating each circle, from the outside toward the center.
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I'm a hopeless romantic. I consider myself a realistic person who usually finds stories from real life people.
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Man's life? A candle in the wind, hoar-frost on stone.
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When I became a mother, my life completely changed.
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The life of a female politician makes it hard to combine personal life and work, but I think it is almost a patriotic duty to have children.
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The satisfaction you feel from your own success pales in comparison to the despair you feel from this person's personal triumphs, even if those triumphs are completely unrelated to your life.
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My brother is nine years older than I am. He's a psychology professor, I'm an actor, and so we look at life in two different ways. We thought it would be interesting to come together and take our unique perspectives and share them with everybody else.
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Working at something you don't care about is the very best way to waste your life.
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Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
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Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.
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One of the Life Saving men snapped the camera for us, taking a picture just as the machine had reached the end of the track and had risen to a height of about two feet.
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The great regret of my life is that I didn't have children.
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But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters. There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you'll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer.
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There are certain people who react well in life-threatening situations, and our military and our law enforcement and our first responders tend to be those types of folks.
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In domestic life, the woman's value is inherent, unquantifiable; at home she exchanges proven values for mythological ones. She 'wants' to be at home, and because she is a woman, she's allowed to want it. This desire is her mystique, it is both what enables her to domesticate herself and what disempowers her.
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I lived a fairly average, anonymous small-town life till I got the idea to do Nine Inch Nails. Then I locked myself in a studio for a year, and then got off the tour bus two years after that, and I didn't know who I'd turned into.
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I've been on sets my whole life.
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My mother had no end of tragedy in her life. She would make herself get up and take a deep breath and go out and do laundry. Hang up sheets.
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He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.
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Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
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I can honestly say that I am happier now than I have ever been. For the first time in my life I feel free.
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I believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death.
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The nice thing about publishing later in life is that you already know who you are. You don't have to hang out with the 'Paris Review' crowd to try to make yourself feel like a legitimate writer.
