Life Quotes
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Give me a spirit that on this life's rough seaLoves t' have his sails fill'd with a lusty wind,Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack,And his rapt ship run on her side so lowThat she drinks water, and her keel plows air.
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In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of the vivisect, in spite of Keble College, and the tramways, and the sporting prints, Oxford still remains the most beautiful thing in England, and nowhere else are life and art so exquisitely blended, so perfectly made one.
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It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.
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If I look what sport has done in my life, I don't think there's any doubt that sport can change lives.
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I say the word death a lot … think of it as … primal relations, opposite, so if I say death a lot, it means I'm concerned with life. It's true.
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What good will a tax break do me if I'm crippled for life?
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Mozart's music is the mysterious language of a distant spiritual kingdom, whose marvelous accents echo in our inner being and arouse a higher, intensive life.
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My life was made easy - I lived in a village, and by writing for some newspapers and magazines, had enough to live on. I was happy to be there and write.
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The extreme side of my personality, which I chose to sort of display, was snowballing and getting a life of its own. It was like looking in a mirror and not recognising myself.
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It might sound glib, but in a sense, as an actor I'm a journalist and a psychologist recording life and truth.
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You know, I consistently change in my own life so the roles I'm suitable for also change, and that's a really nice thing about this profession.
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What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness.
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You've gotta know what death is to know life!
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How sweet it is!
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Whatever your walk of life is, I think you have to be real about it.
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Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up.
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When you are writing a book, it feels as if you are simply concentrating on the world of the book and that whatever is happening in your personal life is outside the room, as it were. But maybe that's just the way you have to talk to yourself to make it possible.
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In the military, and in business, the most elite and effective teams I've seen or been part of are filled with individuals who take responsibility for their choices. Life is a series of decisions that you make and actions you take, not a series of things that happen to you.
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Love is the prize in life.
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Music would lose its charm were not dissonance interspersed at frequent intervals. The closer a composer can come to discord without actually entering it in the score, the more pleasing will be his composition when given life through musical instruments.
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Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.
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I know in my life there's stuff that will come back because I haven't dealt with it, and it's the same with everybody.
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I've found my true calling in life, and I'm living life on my terms.
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I've had people ask me in interviews what it's like to have money, but that's not how it is. I have a middle-class life. I have a room in London but not a house, nor a BMW.
