Life Quotes
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I have learned by some experience, by many examples, and by the writings of countless others before me, also occupied in the search, that certain environments, certain modes of life, certain rules of conduct are more conducive to inner and outer harmony than others. There are, in fact, certain roads that one may follow. Simplification of life is one of them.
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For several years before I began 'The Folded World,' I worked at an urban college campus and had a job in a tutoring center, and people would come into the tutoring center, and for some reason, they just kept telling me their life stories.
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Don't ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It's too short, and you're too special.
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The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.
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It so happened that Lucy, who found daily life rather chaotic, entered a more solid world when she opened the piano. She was then no longer either deferential or patronizing; no longer either a rebel or a slave.
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I believe that the Apple Shuffle is an excellent compromise among the conflicting requirements of simplicity, elegance, size, battery life, and function.
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The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
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Unbeknownst to most American investors, significant portions of their public pension, mutual fund, life insurance and private portfolios are comprised of stocks of privately held companies that partner with state sponsors of terror.
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I loved playing the guitar and I knew I was pretty good at it, so that's what I wanted to do with my life.
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Around 10, I got chubby. I knew I'd crossed a line when the only pants that fit were from the 'Junior Plenty' line at JC Penny. My parents had split up, my mom was going through a dark time, and my brother and I were getting bullied in our new neighborhood. Life was big and unsafe.
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I've had a lot of highs in my life and a lot of lows, some pivotal experiences, and in ways I feel like I've already lived a couple of lives.
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If life a joke then I’m waiting for the punch. You all about the beef but me, I’m bout the bun.
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If you can, anticipate that life is going to be full of detours.
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If you don't know what your family stands for and what your life situation is, you're in trouble.
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At any given moment in your life, you have the choice between love and fear. And that’s a choice you make. You make the choice of how you react to events.
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Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It's just another colour to work with.
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That is why it's so fun to make movies... you get to do lots of things you would never do in your normal life.
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Joining NASA was very exciting, but it was the hardest decision I have had to make in my life.
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You only have one go at life, which is thrilling. Only you can make yourself into who you want to be. Don't blame anybody else. You are entitled to free fresh air, and that's it. Do the rest yourself.
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I've suffered through depression and anxiety my entire life.
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I'm afraid that - not necessarily deliberately, but consistently - I've made a kind of laboratory out of my life, where I mix the stuff in the test tubes to create explosions - possibly resulting in interesting by-products. I mean, not deliberately - I'd be crazy to deliberately do that - or maybe not.
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I consider myself British and have very happy memories of the UK. I spent the first 14 years of my life in England and never wanted to leave. When I was in Australia I went back to England a lot.
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I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my own life in my fiction.
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The need to speak, even if one has nothing to say, becomes more pressing when one has nothing to say, just as the will to live becomes more urgent when life has lost its meaning. (p. 30)
