Life Quotes
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Anyone in public life who comes out, comes out primarily for themselves, and their life is immediately improved. That's what happened to me.
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I definitely want to do music for the rest of my life. So I just want to make sure that I'm doing music in the way that I feel is the way I need to.
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I think if you left grownups to do what they really actually wanted most in the world to do, every single one of them would lie down and take a nap for the rest of their life. I know this because that's what every grownup does as soon as they're alone.
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I'm very bad at being an actor or guitarist. The sign on my gravestone would be, 'I've been getting away with it all my life.'
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I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life.
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Secrets make for good drama, and revealing the hidden truths and contradictions of life is, for me, one of the most exciting aspects of making movies.
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The fact that I am blind is not what defines my life. It should be of no more interest than my blood type. People wonder if there is a relationship between my lack of sight and the way I sing. But there's no connection.
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The last 16 years of my daddy's life, he got to work for me, and that made him his own boss and he like that.
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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.
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Sometimes a hard day's work is easier than a lot of things you can meet in life.
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The communities and countries best at using energy to optimize a microclimate for human life are also the ones whose people have the longest average lifespans. Canada, Sweden, and Iceland - places with inhospitable winter weather - are frontrunners in sustaining human health and life.
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I'm sure the movie industry is going up but I would love to see more Chinese films about contemporary Chinese about the problems of life on the street.
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Jewish custom, which traces descent solely from the mother, is more sensible and more discreet. Our own lawgivers can't accept the fact that there are many things in family life that are best kept shrouded in mystery.
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Christians were regarded as separated from society and therefore destructive of the Greco-Roman way of life.
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I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin.
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I'm from a very violent city. I'm from New Orleans, Louisiana, and it's good to see me be able to express my art, have a good opportunity for my life, make history and say something, without being violent.
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I knew from the first moment I picked up a camera, on my first school assignment, what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. I was going to find a way to travel the world and tell the stories of the people I met through photographs.
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The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.
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At exactly which point do you start to realize, that life without knowledge is death in disguise?
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I'm pretty slapstick in my life but nobody sees that. You get typecast. I'm from New York and I have a sh*t-detector that's outspoken. I'm very streetwise and the producers detect that. So they get me on a movie and kill me. I go into their offices and I'm sure when I leave they say, 'You know, he'd be great to kill'. I've been killed every way you can imagine.
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I have voted Democrat my entire life.
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As an actor, I'm attracted to drama; as a director, it's humor - because it's the story of my life, and I can't be that serious about it. Being alone is a big theme in all my movies, both as a director and as an actress.
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I don't want to be any more interesting than I am. I love the life that I get to live, which is one of real independence and privacy and autonomy.
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As wild and raunchy as Richard Pryor was, people related to his honesty because they found something in their life that they understood.
