Life Quotes
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You'll be a good parent when you're ready to no longer be selfish. Until I was about 35, it was all about me. I look back and I'm astonished at how I lived my life - it was totally self-involved.
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People would tell me, especially after my marriage to Prince, 'You need to write a book because you've had a crazy life.'
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I think it's such a clever idea, that you fall in love when you're 16, and then you have this fantasy about that person for the rest of your life.
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When I originally came to the U.S., my mother came with a couple hundred dollars to her name. I didn't know we were struggling because she hid that from me. But it was definitely a struggle to get through life and get through school.
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My dream is to put together a performance of the evolution of black music with Cirque du Soleil . I would also like to do street opera and children's books. But even as I work toward these things, I want to simplify my life.
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I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.
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I don't want to scream 'Immigrant Song' every night for the rest of my life, and I'm not sure I could.
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For me, my training is a key part of my work as so often my life has depended on being able to move fast and haul myself up and out of something fast!
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I had become so insulated in my world as a mother that I didn't know how to pick up the phone and call anybody to put myself out there. I don't live my life anymore that way.
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Running is a part of my medicine. It's what helps relieve my stress, and it's what helps me get away from the concerns of business and anything else that's going on in my life that I need to escape from at times - to find who I am. Running really helps me with that.
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There's no doubt my having been a ballplayer made me feel a special sense of responsibility to Joe Jackson's life.
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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
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You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame and self-pity. There is a better way to live.
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Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case.
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Life's what's important. Walking, houses, family. Birth and pain and joy - and then death.
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It's always good to take something that's happened in your life and make something of it comedically.
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Cousins are part of your life so stick with cuz not friends.
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He had a sense of irony that ruled his life, made it impossible for him to use his considerable brains in any kind of serious job. Kind of like me.
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But I know too that if we ever make a world without shadow, if the chemists and scientists and psychologists succeed in abolishing fear, pain, loneliness, death, some of us will find life so intolerable we will probably blow out our brains out of sheer boredom.
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I have had a happy life and thank the Lord. Goodbye and may God bless all!
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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.
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Many aspects of the writing life have changed since I published my first book, in the 1960s. It is more corporate, more driven by profits and marketing, and generally less congenial - but my day is the same: get out of bed, procrastinate, sit down at my desk, try to write something.
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I've been an outsider all my life - I don't care.
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For many people, the hardest thing about job-seeking is figuring out where to start. All through college, I heard my friends asking themselves, 'What do I want to do with my life?' And guess what? After college, and after that first job, people still ask the same question.
