Life Quotes
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I was totally into football, totally into mainstream sports my whole life...The media has tried to categorize me, call me a hippie, call me alternative. I work hard. My social life and beliefs don't get in the way of my training.
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My parents saw their job of parenting as their most important role in life, and I aim to aspire to that.
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I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.
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I've always tried to not let movie, television or theatre be all that my life is about. I've always tried to get involved in the community or my family now I have kids.
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Because it is so hard, in any life, to believe in what you can’t fully understand.
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What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.
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Since the things we do determine the character of life, no blessed person can become unhappy. For he will never do those things which are hateful and petty.
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He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
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I've been around golf my whole life. My father did it all the time, and I resented him for it. But a couple years ago I picked up a golf club and I understood the physics of it. If anyone knows anything about golf, it's that once you hit a few shots, you'll become addicted.
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What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
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Business or toil is merely utilitarian. It is necessary but does not enrich or ennoble a human life.
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I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I'm enormously happy that was the case. I feel that with writing I have found my metier.
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I love to follow truth; nay, I have made it my duty to persuade others to act on truth and abjure falsehood for the sake of their own good. So, the eradication of iniquities is the object of my life.
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Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.
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It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.
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Life is full of happiness and tears; be strong and have faith.
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Width of life is more important than length of life.
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Well, I've been a Republican for all of my voting life.
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I wonder if those people shown protesting the deployment of nuclear weapons to western Europe during the Reagan era are feeling appropriately stupid today. 'Please don't take away our precious Soviet Union! - We demand the annihilation of all life on Earth!'
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'Fallen Too Far' was my first NYT bestseller. That changed my life.
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If I knocked and waited at every door, who knows what I might miss?
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Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say in real life.
