Life Quotes
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Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.
Jimmy Dean
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Later in life, the memories I have of my mother are of constant work balanced with caring for my ailing father.
Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
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My life motto is basically to lower your standards and expectations so you're never disappointed and never put any trust in anything, and I try to prepare for the day that I wake up, and everyone I know is like, 'LOL JK best long-running practical joke ever', so I've never really let myself freak out or get too excited about anything.
Tavi Gevinson
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Diminish the mass of evils that afflict the human species, increase enjoyment and well-being. And even if the new routes opened up could prolong the average life of mankind by only a few hours, or even a few days, then the scientist, too could aspire.
Antoine Lavoisier
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Rousseau … asked himself how he might make as much as possible of the interval that remained; and he was not biassed by anything in his previous life when he decided that it must be by intellectual excitement.
Walter Pater
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'Our savior will resurrect us,' said Peggy, 'but I haven’t noticed that Christians end up any less dead at the end of life than heathens.'
Orson Scott Card
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I paint a slice of life, whatever it is that day.
Geoffrey Holder
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My life really began when I married my husband.
Nancy Reagan
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Remember, you are co-creating your life with the energy of your own intentions.
Oprah Winfrey
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Acting is the easiest money you'll ever make in your life, and directing is probably the hardest money.
Charles S. Dutton
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They can keep their God, they can keep their Light. I want the world back. I want questions, not the answer. I want my own life back, and my own death!
Ursula K. Le Guin
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The demand for group rights will widen in the society, because social life increasingly becomes organized on a group basis.
Daniel Bell
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That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.
Walter Pater
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I was fortunate and I was lucky that I had a couple of people in my life who cared about me. I had good, loving parents.
Dwayne Johnson
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There's always going to be someone out there who doesn't like what you do, doesn't like your style, your face. That's part of life. But I feed off that. I don't think I'd be where I am today if it wasn't for that. It puts a little fire in the belly, keeps me going so I can prove so many people wrong.
Olly Murs
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My grandparents used to tell me stories about their trip to Ellis Island from Russia and life on the Lower East Side of New York.
James Gray
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I believe that if your primary motivation in life is to be moral, you don't become an artist.
Mary Gordon
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Life is too large to hang out a sign: 'For Men Only.'
Barbara Jordan
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I feel like I'm worried about my later years in life because I feel like I'm using up so much good karma right now. There's going to be some sort of karmic backlash somewhere down the road.
Ed Helms
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An education is meaningless unless it equips students to have a better life.
Clarence Thomas
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Life is not fair...Anyone who says it is, or even that it ought to be, is a fool or worse.
David Brin
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Probably the worst time in a person's life is when they have to kill a family member because they are the devil. But otherwise it's been a pretty good day.
Emo Philips
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I've been an entrepreneur all my life, and my recent focus is on finding entrepreneurial solutions to address global challenges in healthcare and education.
Naveen Jain
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Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream.
John Berger