Life Quotes
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I would start drinking something terrible if I were in a situation where I was surrounded by lies or quiet or secrets. It's just not a real life.
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No life is so hard that you cannot make it easier by the way you take it.
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While I put forth the suntan and the teeth and the cavalier attitude, I've survived under the worst of eras and times, and I've always had a good time doing it, because I never really took myself seriously, nor did I take life seriously because it is already terribly serious.
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Life is lived on its ownother's shoulders are used only at the time of funeral.
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Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls that are capable of bestowing and have their value in the feeling of the plenitude of life.
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Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life.
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People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.
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My life is all about memories; what people were doing then, what they are doing now and how many people have stayed with me and have allowed me to grow as a man. I am very much a man with a very youthful spirit.
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It's the gymnasium of life where you get the workout, the resistance, and you find out things about yourself that you didn't know.
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I've never had a very great public life.
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For every story you hear that's tragic, there's another that's equally tragic or more so. I think you come to look at it as part of life.
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I was very happy being a secretary. I loved working for the government. I was very happy with my life.
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It's been very hard, after being mostly a mom, to develop an adult life of my own. And not being married anymore, I have to come up with challenges.
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There's never been a doctor who served many patients who, despite their best efforts, did not lose some of them to death. But they understood that was part of life itself.
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I think the themes in my songs are very similar from the first album to the newest one. It's all about the human condition and how we are all trying to learn to live with each other and survive love and life.
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In European thought in general, as contrasted with American, vigor, life and originality have a kind of easy, professional utterance. American - on the other hand, is expressed in an eager amateurish way. A European gives a sense of scope, of survey, of consideration. An American is strained, sensational. One is artistic gold; the other is bullion.
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So many people condemn me for risk taking, but I find it sort of hypocritical because everybody takes risks. Even the absence of activity could be viewed as a risk. If you sit on the sofa for your entire life, you're running a higher risk of getting heart disease and cancer.
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There's always been a piano around the house, and I've grown up around it. It's a massive part of my life and always has been.
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Is it not the business of the conductor to convey to the public in its dramatic form the central idea of a composition; and how can he convey that idea successfully if he does not enter heart and soul into the life of the music and the tale it unfolds?
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Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation
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By providing our young children with opportunities for free, child-directed play, along with proper nutrition, we are setting them up for a lifetime of healthy habits, versus interventions needed later in life.
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I have spent my whole life educating myself.
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Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
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Everyone must decide for himself whether it is better to have a brief but more intensely felt existence or to live a long and ordinary life.
