Life Quotes
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In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born.
Clarence Darrow
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One life is an absurdly small allowance.
Freya Stark
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While preventing the distribution of malware through advertising is one part of the equation, it's important to address the entire malware ecosystem and to fight it at each phase of its life cycle.
Alex Stamos
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Walking through this life really is walking through fire.
Chaka Khan
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I know if you get mad, and in a world with all the competitors I've been around in my life, either from fighting or wrestling or other sports, you have to learn to breathe.
Markwayne Mullin
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Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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In order to represent life on the stage, we must rub elbows with life, live ourselves.
Marie Dressler
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You can't live your life being upset about things, but it's a lot easier to not be upset about it if you've got enough money yourself. If you're walking around broke and working a job from nine to five or seven to five, and you're really struggling to make ends meet, you start thinking about people who have ripped you off and getting pretty angry at them.
Alex Chilton Big Star
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I think that the reason I became an actor, probably, underneath it, was that I spent my life acting normal.
Dash Mihok
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Fairy tales cross generational lines, and how you respond to them depends on when in your life you're seeing them.
James Lapine
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There are different gradations of personhood in different poems. Some of them seem far away from me and some up close, and the up-close ones generally don't say what I want them to say. And that's true of the persona in the poem who's lamenting this as a fact of a certain stage of life. But it's also true of me as me.
Anne Carson
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No life is so hard that you cannot make it easier by the way you take it.
Ellen Glasgow
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Poetry is a pure meritocracy. There's no room for ambiguity: either a poem moves you and opens up new vistas in life, or it doesn't. It's completely objective, and the best always rise to the top.
Jim Goetz
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I am a survivor and not a victim. Life isn't perfect. When you get a knock, you have to get up, dust yourself down and get on with it.
Patsy Kensit
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My advice to anyone is to figure out what you're good at - what it is that you love doing the most in life - and figure out a way to make a living from it.
Jeannette Walls
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A good poem looks life straight in the face, unflinching, sincere, equal to revelation through loss or gain.
David Whyte
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In all the relations of life and death, we are met by the color line.
Frederick Douglass
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I look at the human life like an experiment. Every new moment, every new experience, tragic or otherwise, is an opportunity to gain a more accurate perspective and helps lead me to clarity.
Steve Gleason
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My life had no meaning at all. I found only brief interludes of satisfaction. It was like my whole life had been about my whole basketball career.
Pete Maravich
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If I get to the end of my life, and people say, 'He was in 'Cold Feet,' well, I was, and it was great. I thought the fourth series wasn't great. I thought there were weak episodes throughout. Overall, I thought it was a good show, it had an impact, it dealt with a lot of issues, and it was a great part.
James Nesbitt
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It's a life's work to see yourself for what you really are and even then you might be wrong.
Cormac McCarthy
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My photography is mainly focused on my work making movies, which I've done my whole life. I think I have a perspective that not many people have. And I get to take advantage of all of the strange sources of light on a set.
Jeff Bridges
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I couldn't be where I am today if I had children. My focus would be on my children and home. And you can do it later in life.
Loni Love
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What matters most to me is doing what I was elected to do: help make life better for Oregonians and making America work for working Americans again.
Jeff Merkley