Life Quotes
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When I think of those in the 'far right' or those who are pro-life to the extreme and at all costs protect the unborn, the thing that enrages me is you want to ask every one of them, 'How many foster children are in your home now?'
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When you make movies based on real life, you try to exaggerate it.
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I'll let life take me where it will.
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When I don’t know where to go and life feels a lot like a tornado, spinning me around without a place to land, there in chaos we lock eyes. You always show up right on time, swear you calm the storm at the touch of your hand.
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A good poem looks life straight in the face, unflinching, sincere, equal to revelation through loss or gain.
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Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
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I don't think I've worked a day in my life.
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The goal as a musician, I think, is to be able to make music as a living for the rest of your life.
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The best thing is looking back and realizing how good life is. If you don't take the time to think about it and analyze it, you'll never realize all the dots that are connected.
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It helps to have a happy home life to keep up alongside your career.
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I'm not a nightclub person, but you need to have a social life sometimes.
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When you put an individual on the cover of a big picture magazine, like 'Life of Look', their career skyrocketed. As a photographer, you were very empowered; people came to you, bowing to you and what you represented.
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We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.
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What probably distorts everything in life is that one is convinced that one is speaking the truth because one says what one thinks.
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French existentialism is an unhelpful philosophy in which to couch modern feminism: born from the ravages of the Second World War, it is a cynical, individualistic school of thought that posits the self and personal choice as the measure of life's entire meaning.
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There are hurdles, there are handicaps, hardships you have to face in life, but you hope for a great future.
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If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.
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Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.
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In the '80s, it was difficult and frustrating to appear in the theater and TV again, even though I had some successful shows and hit records. Now, I have to say, the '90s are the best decade of my life. I've done the best work and, in a funny way, I'm enjoying the most success... more than in the '70s.
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I thought if I lost the band, I was dead. If I didn't stick with the Who, I would be a sheet metal worker for the rest of my life.
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I am sure there is only one solution, that is for me to remove myself from the King's life. That is what I am doing now.
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It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death. (1 April 1939)
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'Life's That Way' was an extraordinarily difficult book to write, because it wasn't written as a book. It was written as a journal of events that were happening as I wrote it, without the space or time either to digest or analyze those events and without the hindsight and peace that writing in the aftermath would have provided.
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I've always been a pretty private, quiet kind of person and so I haven't had to change my life really at all, I don't think.
