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Life Quotes


"The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live."


"One of the things that I am happy about in my life as an artist is that I am not considered a Hispanic artist."


"It's a Fox thing, the bad-boy image. They're trying to type me out. There are worse things in life, you know. I'm just really excited about the opportunity."



"Army life was rough. Would you believe it, they actually wanted me to pitch three times a week."


"I think your life is governed not by the bricks or mortar around you, it's governed by who holds your hand and who spits in your eye."



"Probably the '86 nationals. That was my first real national title and first real statement I ever made in figure skating, and my life changed after I returned."


"I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed."


"In order to represent life on the stage, we must rub elbows with life, live ourselves."


"Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor."


"I spend as much time with my kids as any mom who stays home. I only work during the hours they're at school, but there is always the sense of trying to catch up with all their stuff and not only organize my work life but also their school lives."



"I can only say that whatever my life and work have been, I'm not envious of anyone-and this is my biggest satisfaction."



"I didn't come east of the Mississippi for the first time in my life until I was 26 years of age, but I knew. I read magazines, I listened to radio, I watched television. I knew there was something out there, and I wanted a part of it."


"This gets back to the fundamental lesson of political survival that Bill Clinton taught me, which is if you make it about the American people's lives instead of your life, you're going to be okay."



"Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life."


"He's just like my father that way-my father just adored my mother and let her do whatever she wanted. John's like that. He's a very rare man, a very good man, and I've had a good life with him. I'm proud to be walking in the wake of Johnny's fame."


"I spent my whole life figuring out how to get out of work. I would say I was intelligent, but intelligent in a very surreptitious, invisible way."



"For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is now a constituent player in the global transformation of human culture."


"Well I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in prison, it became a sort of a new challenge to write another novel, to write a new novel."


"Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life."


"A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all."



"The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness."


"Life is very short... but I would like to live four times and if I could, I would set out to do no other things than I am seeking now to do."
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