Life Quotes
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I've never contended that I had a really horrible life.
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I've just always rocked the goatee. Maybe a beard for a minute or some thick sideburns, but I've only been clean-shaven for, like, two days in my adult life.
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When I black out, it's the happiest time of my life.
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Reacher hated turning back. He liked to press on, dead ahead, whatever. Everyone's life needed an organizing principle, and relentless forward motion was Reacher's.
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Formerly admired almost universally as the preeminent champion of human rights, the United States now has become one of the foremost targets of respected international organizations concerned about these basic principles of democratic life. Some of our actions are similar to those of abusive regimes that we have historically condemned.
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I'm an actor, because I get to see other sides of life and I get to be other people and it excites me so much.
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Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act on building the life you desire.
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I grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y. For part of my life, I was living in Detroit, and I remember a friend of mine commenting she could always tell when I had been speaking to my mother because my New York accent had come back.
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Now, these men weren’t idiots. They were geniuses who paid a high price for their genius because the rest of their thinking was other-world. A genius is someone who travels to truth by an unexpected path. Unfortunately, unexpected paths lead to disaster in everyday life.
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I think things just happen to people. That's healthier, I feel, than believing there's some grand scheme where your story is already inscribed in the Book of Life. Books get rewritten.
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The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.
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The ultimately possible attitudes toward life are irreconcilable, and hence their struggle can never be brought to a final conclusion.
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Only one time in my career I had that feeling [that this is not gonna get made], it was for this movie [Life of Pi]. It was right before we started the physical pre-production. I pre-visualized the whole ocean part before we made the movie, I was that prepared. At one point they seemed to want to drop it because it was really risky. The budget we proposed was a lot higher than they expected, they wanted to [drop it]. After all, it's a philosophical book and a literature property, it's not Batman.
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You choose the life you want for yourself, and then you just shut up and go about it. That's how I've lived my life.
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But that was the best time of my life, and only now that it has gone from me forever -- only now do I realize it.
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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It's the reason we go to films and watch television: to escape the mundane nature of life and see another world and see ourselves in that other world. I think that's what sci-fi does so well.
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I will have spent my life trying to understand the function of remembering, which is not the opposite of forgetting, but rather its lining. We do not remember. We rewrite memory much as history is rewritten. How can one remember thirst?
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I took it upon myself to paint a better picture of rural life and what it is all about.
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Listen. Are you breathing just a little and calling it a life?
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Spirituality is an anchor for me and guides me through life.
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Really, most of us just focus on what's in front of us. We're too busy putting out the fires of everyday life.
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The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound.
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If you are open-minded and ready to learn, there are many things which you can learn not only from books and instructors but from the very life experience itself.
