Life Quotes
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If things go wrong and you hit a dead end-as you will-it's just life's way of saying it's time to change course.
Oprah Winfrey
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I think people are very stiff. Money makes people stiff, and we want it, and we have to pay the penalty. I never agreed with stiffness. I think people have an understanding of what their life is. I define success by being a realist and not humiliating people. I'm a revolutionary - but not in the political sense.
John Cassavetes
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Work is important, no doubt, but one can end up neglecting family and friends in the bargain. So I have resolved not to let that happen and maintain work-life balance by taking time out for the people who matter the most to me.
Disha Patani
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Any musician who says he is playing better either on tea, the needle, or when he is juiced, is a plain, straight liar. When I get too much to drink, I can't even finger well, let alone play decent ideas. ... You can miss the most important years of your life, the years of possible creation.
Charlie Parker
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I'm sure every song has some kind of undertone of what I was going through with Chris. It was my life.
Deana Carter
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My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in academia.
Pete Seeger
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Tea is more than an idealization of the form of drinking; it is a religion of the art of life.
Okakura Kakuzo
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I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.
Abraham Lincoln
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After I play every character, I always walk away and feel a little different. I've experienced something that's not my life, but I've made it my life.
Brittany Snow
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He loved her so passionately he wanted her to be one soul and one body with him; and he was conscious that here, with those deep roots attaching her to the native life, she would always keep something from him.
W. Somerset Maugham
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One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
Albert Einstein
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As long as you're centering back to home base, and that's the strongest magnet in your life, that everything else is okay.
Charlie Ebersol
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I don't have a type. I've dated so many different types, different personalities, different looks - from athletic to very non-athletic. The only thing I have to have is someone who is really motivated in life and challenges me. If I don't have that, I get bored.
Jill Wagner
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You should have more time for you during all of your life - not when you're 65 and retired.
Carlos Slim
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I come from the South Bronx - a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
Al Pacino
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I've always known what I'm meant to do. The path of my life has been about discovering what I need to do to support myself as a writer.
Ottessa Moshfegh
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A lot of people might define a life well lived by how much is in the bank. I feel like it's how much you laugh.
Jill Kargman
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If it wasn't for the Porcaro brothers, I don't know where I'd be right now. My life would be completely different.
Steve Lukather Toto
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We cannot agree that an act of plunder which threatens the livelihood of many nations should be allowed to succeed. And we must make sure that the life of the great trading nations of the world cannot in the future be strangled at any moment by some interruption to the free passage of the Canal.
Anthony Eden
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Underlying the preaching of the Puritans are three basic axioms: 1. The unique place of preaching is to convert, feed and sustain, 2. The life of the preacher must radiate the reality of what he preaches, 3. Prayer and solid Bible study are basic to effective preaching.
J. I. Packer
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There's more to life than listening to rock music.
Frank Black
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I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.
Bernardo Bertolucci
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I really like people and I keep friendships. I have people from all parts of my life.
Kate Mosse
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Precious, she gets hit by life so many different ways and so many times, but she doesn't yield to it. She continues to get up and she continues to struggle for a better life.
Gabourey Sidibe