Life Quotes
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It's funny, when you're a child you think time will never go by, but when you hit about twenty, time passes like you're on the fast train to Memphis. I guess life just slips up on everybody. It sure did on me.
Fannie Flagg
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I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals.
Georg Brandes
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I went on tour with the Rolling Stones in 1972 for two or three cities. And in 1975, I was the tour photographer for the Rolling Stones. I hung onto my camera for dear life. Because it scared the hell out of me.
Annie Leibovitz
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The reality is that we know that this universe, that our galaxy, has billions of stars. We know that stars have planets. So the likelihood that there is life somewhere else to me is just absolutely there.
Mae Jemison
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Previously the same Polish audiences would have been pressured into seeing cinema made for adults, films made by us about those spheres of life that were significant for us and which should be significant for our society.
Andrzej Wajda
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I'm always having people come up to me and say I saved their life - but I don't remember it!
Leon Russell
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One has to look at my life story to see what I've done. I've paid a heavy price that many people don't realize.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
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There's nothing, absolutely nothing, more important than your life. And your life isn't more important than other people's lives.
Yasmina Khadra
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I do have a memo all the time because I need to be guided by something in my life. I'm not religious and I don't have idols, so something has to drive me.
Marina and the Diamonds
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I think we all suffer from acute blindness at times. Life is a constant journey of trying to open your eyes. I'm just beginning my journey, and my eyes aren't fully open yet.
Olivia Thirlby
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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.
Katherine Mansfield
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The Church, the organized expression of the religious life of the past, is one of the most potent institutions and forces in Western civilization. ...It cannot help throwing its immense weight on one side or the other. If it tries not to act, it thereby acts; and in any case its choice will be decisive for its own future.
Walter Rauschenbusch
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It's so disappointing, to put it mildly, that people know so much about my life. Because it means that they're always trying to look at my books in terms of my life.
Salman Rushdie
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If you allow spirit to have dominion in your heart you will have dominion in your life. That changes thinking. That IS the miracle. That I'm not just a child of the body, I'm a child of the universe and in the universe I am programmed for greatness, and the fact that I don't have money in my bank account now doesn't mean I'm any less programmed for greatness. I was programmed for greatness just like the acorn is programmed to be an oak tree.
Marianne Williamson
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I just feel that God gave me a certain gift, and that was to go out, do storytelling and be an actor. And my responsibility with that gift is to do the best job possible and to re-create real life.
Eric Close
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Someone who says 'I am busy' is either declaring incompetence (and lack of control of his life) or trying to get rid of you.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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In 1990, Howard Friedman and Leslie Martin, two psychologists at the University of California, Riverside, embarked on a research project within a research project, seeking answers to the question, 'What makes for a long life?'
Katie Hafner
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Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make the attempt. That's morality, that's religion, that's art, that's life.
Phil Ochs
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Should he ever write an autobiography, he'd call it The Life and Death of a Male Body.
Philip Roth
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My favorite part of the film business is the research part, with the access we get from people who are excited to be involved and the things we get to see and do, which we're not normally going to get in everyday life.
Jason Clarke
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There's nothing wrong with sexual feelings in themselves, so long as they are straightforward and not sneaking or sly. The right sort of sex stimulus is invaluable to human daily life. Without it the world grows grey.
D. H. Lawrence
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My favorite comics show the real-life struggles of heroes as well as the fantastical.
Kate Leth
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I have this theory that I hold on to, the theory that everything great in art and in life in general is jazz. It's just like all these things that just kind of seem to fall into place. You know, like mistakes that somehow turn into something beautiful.
Jerrod Carmichael
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Changes your life, getting into the Hall of Fame. For the rest of my life, I'll be known as Hall of Famer George Kell.
George Kell