Life Quotes
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Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.
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As many have discovered, it is entirely possible (although not particularly desirable) to love two people with all your heart. It is entirely possible to long for two lives, to feel that one life can't come close to containing it all.
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I don't think I'm all that twisted in my life. I'm not like some tattooed filmmaker who, you know, hangs out on the Lower East Side and is part of some satanic cult or something.
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If you want to live a hundred years, how do you want to live your life? At the age of 100, you should go shopping with your great-grandchildren, but not in a wheelchair.
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Because we are afraid of life, we seek to control or master it.
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Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enriched your soul.
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I think credibility, irrespective of what you do, if you are in public life, then it is important.
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If I had a do over, I'd indubitably start investing in startups earlier in life!
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The answer can't be found in books - or be solved by bringing it to other people. Not unless you want to remain a child all your life. You've got to find the answer inside you — feel the right thing to do.
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In my adult life, I had spent a lot of time angry at God, mostly over the sudden deaths in my family - my brother at 30, my daughter at 5.
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What is poetry? Do not enquire. The secret dies by prying. How does the heart beat? I fainted when I saw it on the screen, opening and closing like a flower ... Poetry is like this, it is life moving, terrible, vivid. Look the other way when you write, or you might faint.
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Prejudice and discrimination have always been a big part of my life. When I was 6, I got beat up and called dirty Jew boy because they thought I looked Jewish.
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I don't think I spoke to anyone apart from my daughter for the first two years of her life.
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Washburn built me the guitar that changed my life.
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If you're not getting it perfect, life is still going to go around. The world still turns. It's going to be OK. Tomorrow is a new day.
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Creativity is a game changer. That's true of society, in advertising and in life.
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I argued that the human race should have known it was in for trouble, at least we in the United States should have, given how insane our way of life had become. Minor quit blowing into his harmonica long enough to say that John D. Rockefeller and the Bush family had made a deal with the Devil going back all the way to the 1900s.
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I want to live my life moving forward with integrity and pride.
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When our daughter was born, a light went on for me - there was more to life than what I was doing. It felt like being famous for being a paint salesman. It wasn't the dream I was sold on. I'd had enough of it.
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I've felt like an outcast most of my life, being in multiple high schools and being a military child.
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With 'The Chi,' it's me observing my own city and also pulling some things from themes I've dealt with in my life.
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Oh yes, as a matter of fact it is quite interesting that exercises can be conducted which demonstrate conclusively that there are memories which exist prior to this life.
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School houses do not teach themselves - piles of brick and mortar and machinery do not send out men. It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys and girls and makes them human, whether they be black or white, Greek, Russian or American.
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In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour-time.
