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Life Quotes
"Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best."
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"What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working."
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"One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure."
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"I've never really taken anything very seriously. I enjoy life because I enjoy making other people enjoy it."
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"Everything about my teenage life was almost ideal."
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"To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that constitutes the subject of much of my early fiction."
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"I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend a year of my life on these things, I want something that I feel that strongly about."
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"Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities."
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"Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure."
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"That's life - to turn each other on, to feel good, to feel in love."
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"I wanted to tell my story in a way I haven't done before, things I've been going through in my life."
Life,
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"Every day of my life I walk with the idea that I am black, no matter how successful I am. And our success is tempered by that; you're successful in this way given the fact you are black, and most blacks don't get to that point."
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"The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and although I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets."
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"We are hungry for more; if we do not consciously pursue the More, we create less for ourselves and make it more difficult to experience More in life."
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"I was a bit of a big mouth my whole life. I'm a person who expresses themselves with a lot of openness."
Life,
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"The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped."
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"Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life."
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"They which have no hope of a life to come, may extend their griefs for the loss of this, and equal the days of their mourning with the years of the life of man."
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"Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues."
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"I can look back at different times in my life when I felt I could not find my way out of whatever it was. I'm not necessarily talking about marriage, but I wanted to pack it in. I wanted to disappear. A lot of that has to do with being in the public eye."
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"Times of my life, brief periods without music, have completely felt dangerously over the edge."
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