Life Quotes
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Democracy is the great love of the failures and cowards of life.
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Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her visual genius for still photography (which none of her legion of imitators has). Unfortunately, her public life has dissolved into a series of staged photo ops.
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I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.
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To be entirely free, and at the same time, entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life that we realise at every moment.
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Mum and Dad were very much friends and up for life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up; they just taught me to be me.
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Everyone goes through a hard time in their life.
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It pays in England to be a revolutionary and a bible-smacker most of one's life, and then come round.
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I grew up in an affluent suburban world and never worried about money until I'd grown up and found wonderfully original ways to screw up my life.
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We weren't dirt poor, but there was no spare money kicking around. While it was very much understood that the way to a better life was through education, books were a luxury we couldn't afford. But when I was six, we actually moved opposite the central library, and that became my home from home.
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In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
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My college friends call me Karu, which is the worst. Only in our country can we make a short form for a short name. But otherwise, I've never had a pet name all my life. But now, in official meetings, someone will call me KJo. And I'll judge that person in my head. Just call me Karan.
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What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.
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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.
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One can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was. Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
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I don't believe that saying things because you feel they are what people want to hear is the right way to be in any part of your life.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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When I feel like work and life are both going well, I feel like I can be fully present at both. I think the reminder to me is that both are super important, and I need to be able to feel like I can experience both in the way that makes me happiest. If I'm not happy in one or the other, it really affects the other side.
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Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.
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Any woman can make pole dancing a regular part of their exercise routine - and a fun part of their romantic life!
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In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.
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In my life, the sky is literally the ceiling.
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We tell applicants, 'If you don't intend to be here for life, you needn't apply.'
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We need to lift up the nation so we can find a more civil way to deal with our disagreements because, in these United States of America, no one should ever feel their life threatened over their political beliefs and positions.
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I have such an admiration for John [Lennon], like most people. But to be the guy who wrote with him, well that's enough. Right there you could retire and go, 'Jesus I had a fantastic life. Take me, Lord.'
