My Life Quotes
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There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose as in most lives) when I have felt for a time as if a thick curtain had fallen on all its interest and romance, to shut me out from anything save dull endurance any more. Never has that curtain dropped so heavy and blank, as when my way in life lay stretched out straight before me through the newly-entered road of apprenticeship to Joe.
Charles Dickens
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There's nothing wrong with struggle. Anytime I look back at a difficult phase of my life and see what grew out of it - the creative survival tactics - I think that the good is way better than the bad.
Esperanza Spalding
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A lot of my music is very reggae- driven. Half of my life Bob Marley was all I listened to.
Wyclef Jean Fugees
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I'm excited to begin the next chapter of my life with an amazing woman.
Eric Lange
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I revise many things in my life.
Luisana Lopilato
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I must face the fact, as all others in positions of leadership must do, that America today is an extremely sick nation, and that something could well happen to me at any time. I feel, though, that my cause is so right, so moral, that if I should lose my life, in some way it would aid the cause.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Don't take this the wrong way, but all my life you've been the weirdest person I've ever met. That doesn't make you not a real person. In fact, it makes you pretty goddamn specific.
Brenna Yovanoff
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My grandfather was a voodoo priest. A lot of my life dealt with spirituality. I can close my eyes and remember where I come from.
Wyclef Jean Fugees
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Over and over again in my life, I find closeness to other people and proximity to other people really painful; that's part of my mental illness, social anxiety. Closeness to other people is really hard, but it's also a shame because it's all you want too. But it doesn't always work.
Adam Duritz Matt Malley
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If I were over full of pity for the cow, I should sacrifice my life to save her but not take my brother's.
Mahatma Gandhi
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My faith in truth and nonviolence is ever growing, and as I am ever trying to follow them in my life, I too am growing every moment.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I couldn’t calm down. Was it possible that Mario should leave me like this, without warning? It seemed to me incredible that all of a sudden he had become uninterested in my life, like a plant watered for years that is abruptly allowed to die of drought. I couldn’t conceive that he had unilaterally decided that he no longer owed me any attention.
Elena Ferrante
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My life and art have not been separated. They have been together.
Eva Hesse
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I don't remember the first half of my life. All I say is a happy childhood is the worst possible preparation for life.
Kinky Friedman
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'One Week' changed my life because I used to be the Million Dollars Guy, and now I'm the Chickity China Guy.
Ed Robertson
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I have a love/hate relationship with just about all technology in my life. My first typewriter in particular. I had a helluva time putting new ribbon on it.
Eric Stoltz
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I say no wealth is worth my life.
Homer
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You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.
Elizabeth Edwards
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I treat every time I walk on the stage like it's the performance of my life.
Eric Benet
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The LORD is the help of my life
William Bradford
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I've been in a Speedo half my life. So I am really comfortable with my body.
Eric Shanteau
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I've been in trouble most of my life. No stealing or anything like that, just fights. It's all fights.
Billy Joe Shaver
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Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life. Everything else one can turn and turn about, and make old look like new; but there's no coaxing boots and shoes to look better than they are.
George Eliot
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I know what you're saying, Bart. When I was young, I wanted an electric football machine more than anything else in the world, and my parents bought it for me, and it was the happiest day of my life. Well, goodnight.
Dan Castellaneta