Life Quotes
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Modern man - although a unity of body, mind, and soul - exhibits a changed consciousness: every expression of his life has today a different aspect, that is, an aspect more positively abstract.
Piet Mondrian
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The Germans told me 'We're going to conquer the world!' and I don't regret working with a German record company at all, because for my career it was great, but they wanted to control me, direct me and restrict me. They wanted absolute discipline and that's not the life for me, so after a few years of that I wanted out.
Amanda Lear
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In real life, I don't love working out, but I've been driven to it.
Joanna Going
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Self-government means continuous effort to be independent of government control, whether it is foreign government or whether it is national. Swaraj government will be a sorry affair if people look up for the regulation of every detail of life.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I famously tasted shark fin soup many, many years ago before we understood exactly what was going on with the harvesting of sharks. I've consequently come out against it. I make personal choices in my life and stand behind them.
Andrew Zimmern
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When I signed that major-label contract when I was 20 years old. I did it because I wanted to play music for the rest of my life. That's every 20-year-old's dream - to do whatever the hell you want.
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
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My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.
Marion Jones
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I want to make sure I'm not a dilettante. Decorating has been a passion all my life. I love it.
Cristina Saralegui
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Whether defending our nation as a Black Hawk pilot abroad or serving our veterans and those in need at home, my life has been enriched by the opportunities I've had to serve my country and fellow citizens, both in and out of uniform.
Tammy Duckworth
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We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say - and to feel - 'Yes, that’s the way it is, or at least that’s the way I feel it. You’re not as alone as you thought.'
John Steinbeck
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In 'Straight Talking,' I had bared my soul, and the press attention had been overwhelming. There were times when I felt scared and vulnerable, regretting the articles I had written to publicize the book, regretting I had opened my life up for all to see.
Jane Green
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There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.
Albert Camus
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I'm not saying I want a film career because I think I'm too good for television. I'm simply saying I want more control over my life.
Matthew Fox
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Then to the King's Theatre, where we saw Midsummer's Night's Dream, which I had never seen before, nor shall ever again, for it is the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life.
Samuel Pepys
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I love the life I live. The Lord blessed me to be independent. I am independent.
Charles Evers
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If I had to define life in a word, it would be: Life is creation.
Claude Bernard
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I've always said in my career and in my life I only do things I'm interested in.
John Barrowman
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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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Control your thoughts. Decide about that which you will think and concentrate upon. You are in charge of your life to the degree you take charge of your thoughts.
Earl Nightingale
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My family lives a pretty normal life.
Darius Rucker Hootie & the Blowfish
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Looking back, my life seems like one long obstacle race, with me as the chief obstacle.
Jack Paar
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I actually got hurt in a steel factory in 1985 and so that changed my life. I went to a junior college and that's where I discovered acting.
John Corbett
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It feels like as you get a bit older, you've worked out the things that are good for your life apart from with acting.
Dolly Wells
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As you mature, you start reading and studying and researching, you start to really know what life is about.
Afrika Bambaataa