Life Quotes
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Authors are not a special case, deserving of more sympathy than many other groups. We are a particular case of a general degradation of the quality of life, and we are not going to stop pointing it out, because we speak for many other groups as well.
Philip Pullman
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I don't really like politics, to be honest. But it's other people making decisions about my life and my country and my child's education... I wish we didn't have so much money in politics, but that's not the world we live in. If we don't play here, we forfeit. And I'm not willing to forfeit my rights.
Laura Ricketts
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I was lucky to come from a difficult area. It teaches you not just about football but also life.
Zinedine Zidane
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I will only talk about my work. I have always stayed away from commenting on my personal life, and that remains unchanged.
Karishma Tanna
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I have a great life and I'm super active.
A. J. Langer
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It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.
Dizzy Gillespie
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My current mantra is that sometimes we need teachers in our lives. I never had that in my life, parents and stuff like that; I tried to stay on the outside of them or anybody that had that kind of influence.
Taylor Dayne
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Life's a pudding full of plums.
W. S. Gilbert
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Mentally, you can't expect positive things to start happening in your life with a negative attitude.
Jinder Mahal
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Gandhi became my role model. I have always been interested in Eastern philosophy. Since early in my life I've been fascinated by India, and I have spent a great deal of time traveling in that country.
Bianca Jagger
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I had an instinct to gravitate towards people who were smarter than I was, teachers that were nice people that were trying to do things in life that were constructive, and that's what I gravitated to instead of what I saw and what I was in.
Florence Henderson
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When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.
A. S. Byatt
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I can't for the life of me see that by being permissive you actually assist anyone.
Jenny Shipley
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I played hockey my whole life until my ambition outstripped my ability, which happens to most Canadians around 15 or 16 years old.
Jason Priestley
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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When people are going on to the next plateau of whatever this thing is called life, I also want them to breathe easily, even if it's the last one they take here with us. I guess I'm the welcoming committee and ushering committee.
Erykah Badu
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My personal life is awesome, but there's always more to strive for in my career.
Jaime Winstone
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The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course, and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it, does not find life complex. Complexities are all of our own making.
B. C. Forbes
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Today is a celebration of hope for the Iraqi people. The Iraqi people can now take control of their government and their future by creating a society that protects the rights endowed to us by our creator - life, liberty and freedom.
Jim DeMint
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The foreign policy of the Democrats is bad for Europe and deadly for Hungary. In contrast, the foreign policy of the Republicans and proclaimed by presidential candidate Trump is good for Europe and means life for Hungary.
Viktor Orban
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All my life, my immediate response to emotional pain has been to make jokes. Lots of jokes.
Karen Salmansohn
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If you can build your career around your passions, then you're winning in life; that's one of the best things you can ask for.
Chris Hardwick
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I like to be lazy. I do like to be busy and really active, but when that's done, you can be sure I will be a lazy boy. I like to take time and relax and enjoy life.
Olivier Theyskens
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No one is really miserable who has not tried to cheapen life.
David Starr Jordan