Life Quotes
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Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
William James
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I think that those elements - light and sound - are beyond democratic. They're into the creative part of life.
Ornette Coleman
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I am a happy person and I choose to be a positive person. I think some people think my life has been tragic and there have been these horrible dramas but things really have been, and are, fine.
Patsy Kensit
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By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.
William Shakespeare
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Reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought. . . . life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and one day in its turn language shall have preceded possession of silence.
Clarice Lispector
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[Pablo] Picasso really changed my life. It's strange to say so, but I started to see some Picasso paintings very early. I was very young, and he was not so much known.
Agnes Varda
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Self-judgment is how conditioned mind keeps control over your life.
Cheri Huber
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Learning how to be persuasive has been really crucial to my life both professionally and personally.
Amanda de Cadenet
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Music is 99% of my life. But I know I need a break. Besides, if you give people too much, they start to not want it. We need to restrain ourselves.
Billy Corgan The Smashing Pumpkins
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The middle way is a view of life that avoids the extreme of misguided grasping born of believing there is something we can find, or buy, or cling to that will not change. And it avoids the despair and nihilism born from the mistaken belief that nothing matters, that all is meaningless.
Patrick Henry
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Life has many twists and turns.
Max Baucus
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If I'm doing a story on how a single mother copes in a refugee camp, I'll go to her tent; I'll follow her when she's working, see what her daily life is like, and try to pack that into one composition, with nice light, in one frame.
Lynsey Addario
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It wasn't the New World that mattered... Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing what he had discovered. It's life that matters, nothing but life - the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Technically, my first acting job was in one of my videos for a song called 'Retrospect For Life,' which Lauryn Hill directed and featured an actress by the name of N'bushe Wright, who played my girlfriend who was about to be pregnant. I remember being so nervous about it, but now I feel like I can conquer the world with it.
Common
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If all you're doing is making money, you have a luxurious but empty life.
Amanda Donohoe
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The RSC changed my career, and 'Coronation Street' changed my life.
Katherine Kelly
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God has given us everything we need for life and godliness. And he's given us the indwelling strength and guidance of the Holy Spirit. The rest is up to us.
David Jeremiah
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My dream role? I think to play Sammy Davis Jr. and his life story.
Elijah Kelley
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The foolish idea that my music can actually make a difference in someone's life - that right there is proof that it's working. It makes me feel great, it really does.
Jason Mraz
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Journalism, for me, has always been a calling. There are things that must be exposed to the light, truths that must be uncovered, stories worth risking your life for.
Leslie Cockburn
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You know what's good? Going on the ice and knowing that you don't have to skate when the whistle blows. All my life I've been the one skating.
Joe Sakic
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I think that if you use something from you life in fiction, it metamorphosizes into something strange and different. Afterward it is hard to tell what actually was part of your life and what is part of the story of the fictional character.
Marge Piercy
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Life gets more interesting as it goes on. It becomes fuller because there is perspective there.
Ann Dowd
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What you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it. Opportunities, relationships, even money flowed my way when I learned to be grateful no matter what happened in my life.
Oprah Winfrey