Life Quotes
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Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous.
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Monotony is poverty, whether in speech or in life.
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Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life: with its own torment it increases its own knowledge. Did you already know that?
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Nothing seemed as scary as waking up at 40 and realizing that I had not lived a very courageous life.
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A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance - you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.
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I want people to have learned from me. When you watch movies that we grew up on, they teach you life lessons about friendship, brotherhood, integrity, but it's still funny and something you can watch as a family. I want to bring that back to our culture in general.
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Life outside of Earth is probably going to be really hard to find.
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A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.
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Many a writer has spent his life putting his favorite words in all the places they belong; but how many, like E.E. Cummings, have spent their lives putting their favorite words in all the places they don’t belong, thus discovering many effects that no one had even realized were possible?
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Anything I wanted to do and achieve has not been influential in my life, but my failures have.
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Freddie Mercury and Elton John are, like, two of the biggest Influences in my whole life. And probably always will be.
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If only life were that simple; if one could jump to the good parts and flick through the bad.
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There is something … more important in life than punctuality, and that is decorum.
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The ultimate aim in life should be to fulfill to the utmost all that within our ability and to share that which is good and beautiful.
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John Wayne was a consummate gentleman. Bigger than life.
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Words have power. The things that you say to yourself as a parent - the things that you say maybe even just one time to your children - they take it, and they take it into their real world and into their life and beyond.
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I've done things that I wouldn't ordinarily seem capable of doing. And I've proven myself in situations where there's life and death at stake. And so, I can live with myself knowing that it's not a matter of guts or anything like that. It's a matter of willingness to go the length, to transcend yourself.
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Money is no good unless it contributes something to the community, unless it builds a bridge to a better life. Any man can make money, but it takes a special kind of man to use it responsibly.
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My personal life, my musical life, my life as an artist - almost everything has pointed all these little arrows that make up which way I go as a person and what I feel comfortable as my identity.
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Suddenly, quietly, you realize that - from this moment forth - you will no longer walk through this life alone. Like a new sun this awareness arises within you, freeing you from fear, opening your life. It is the beginning of love, and the end of all that came before.
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Life is much more available in New York - there are a dozen movie theaters within walking distance. Living in California is easier, but you get sedentary.
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When you play against different people from all walks of life you can't do the same thing against every player defensively or offensively. You have to change up the way you go at a player.
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Writing is a lonely way of life. You shut yourself up in your study and work and work.
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There needn't be a distinction between your life and your music.
