Life Quotes
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Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment.
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Social Security, which transformed life for the elderly in this country, was 'socialist.' The concept of the 'minimum wage' was seen as a radical intrusion into the marketplace and was described as 'socialist.'
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The band was rejuvenated by that wonderful day. It breathed new life into us.
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When I left the Royal College, I decided I would only make paintings that I would want to look at myself, that felt close to my life.
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Of all the agonies in life, that which is most poignant and harrowing--that which for the time annihilates reason, and leaves our whole organization one lacerated, mangled heart--is the conviction that we have been deceived where we placed all the trust of love.
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Internationalism on the other hand admits that spiritual achievements have their roots deep in national life; from this national consciousness art and literature derive their character and strength and on it even many of the humanistic sciences are firmly based.
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I believe women should be independent and have their own life. But I also think that when a couple decides to have a family, things change because you need to live in unison.
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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
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There's no greatest moment in the arts. It's a life, it's a continuity thing. You can't have a great moment because it's spiritual. It's a belief, it's a calling. If you're an artist, doing your own thing on your own, it's while you're doing it that counts. It's a process. If you get too elated, you can get too depressed.
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For every book that I write... I develop a history for each person and make sure they are well rounded and flawed. You have to know everything about them from their shoe size, to where they went to school, to what their first pet was, to what they like to eat, to what they want out of life.
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Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.
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I'm very sad 'Life' wasn't a big hit, But it was undone by politics at NBC. It was intense. I moved my wife, and we had two children back to back. So working those hours and living abroad in L.A. was a handful. But it was a great experience.
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Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.
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You just got with the flow because life is just all about how you feel.
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I have never done anything in my life that my mother would not have approved of or been proud of.
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Life is a journey, you know; and a lot of journeys, you go out, you come back.
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My father was a classic intellectual. From him I learned devotion, and I also learned about the life of the mind.
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Even when you've made mistakes in life, you can still contribute and pick up the stuff and move on.
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Every vital organization owes its birth and life to an exciting and daring idea.
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By the power invested in me by the state of New York and the Universal Life Church, I now pronounce you husband and husband. You can kiss the groom.
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I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.
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...decide for yourself what makes you truly happy and then organize your life around it. Write down your goals and make plans to achieve them.
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The best aphorisms are.... portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. They furnish the largest amount of intellectual stimulus and nutriment in the smallest compass. About every weak point in human nature, or vicious spot in human life, there is deposited a crystallization of warning and protective proverbs.
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Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is manifest.
