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Life Quotes


"Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life."


"I've got a new relationship and I'm trapped in this old life."


"I love the show and a lot of what came out of it, like some of the people I met and got to work with, but those were truly some of the unhappiest days of my life."


"Working with Bernardo Bertolucci was one of the greatest highlights of my whole life. It was such an incredible opportunity for me."


"If war is hard - and it is, forever and always - then after war is just as hard, in a different way."


"Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level."


"Life provides chances to open your heart all the time."


"I don't want to be rich yet live a life of unhappiness, but I also don't want to be poor because I have never seen happiness in poverty."


"Every form of life must struggle. Life is an aberration; death is ordinary. Life requires obstruction, conflict, reverses, and resolve. Life requires questing. Questing provides the meaning that we seek, a purpose to justify the inevitable struggle to live knowing the absurdity that we must die."


"In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings."


"Did you see Grace is back with us?'Megan did see me. She saw me jump off a cliff and crawl under an Iranian fence. Megan has seen plenty. And I can't help but hold my breath, waiting on her answer.'Hi,' Megan says, turning to me. 'Welcome home.'Home. The word hits me. I've spent all my life thinking that I didn't have one, but now that I'm back I can't deny that I've spent more my life on Embassy Row than in any other place-that maybe it just wasn't my mother's childhood home. In a way, it's mine, too."


"The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty."


"We're all blurry-eyed wanderers of time, and the unfortunance of it all is that we'd probably all go on to do great things if only we searched for what corrected and focused our vision instead of relying on our past " life's grand kaleidoscope " to help us find our way forward."


"We all have our things that we would rather live without. It's how we live with them when we have no choice that makes us or breaks us."


"Strive to be authentic all the time. That's sort of my philosophy on life, which applies to acting."


"Meanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is of less importance than the reverse, namely, that this connection with the complications and fluctuations of life is necessarily still a too close one."


"After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life."


"Move on, don't let the little things of Life hold you back. Forget, Forgive, and Move on."


"Why slum it where people were burdened by yesterday, and the day before, and the day before that? By history? Here, on the Island, they had learnt how to deal with history, how to sling it carelessly on your back and stride out across the download with the breeze in your face."


"However hard life is, deep in our hearts we know that it is worth to continue till the end!"


"The fate of the world depends on the triumph of the good people!"


"Have faith in 'What Is'. You will get your due, good or not so good, to your liking or not, but in time, as it is meant to be."


"I would have told them that he lived a life lacking in purpose or direction. Like those aimless rides I took him on. A life lived from the backseat, observed as it blurred by. An indifferent life."


"There is stability in walking an uncertain path, because you never allow yourself to be misled by what you think you know."


"It is fellowship, this most fundamental need on our way toward achieving our highest expression of the human experience, which Jiu Jitsu provides."



"Life is too short, and I'm Italian. I'd much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0."


"So the ideology was that: use sounds as instruments, as sounds on tape, without the causality. It was no longer a clarinet or a spring or a piano, but a sound with a form, a development, a life of its own."


"Hollywood is like life, you face it with the sum total of your equipment."


"Oh, yeah, I see the world differently now. Actually, when I first had the baby, I was breast-feeding him for two years straight. So we were together for two years of his life, every single day, all hours of the day. So I was two people, and I eventually morphed back into one."



"My favorite thing is still journalism. I'm almost 50. This has been my life ever since I was in college."
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