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Life Quotes


"Americans are crazy. They have this fascination with throwing their shoes on stage. I've been to a lot of shows in me life, some good and some bad. But I was never moved to take off me shoes and throw it at the lead singer."


"The actual process of filmmaking, the many hours out of your life- it is very slow and boring. I'm not interested in that now unless an opportunity was provided for me."


"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."


"Throughout his life, Ronald Reagan believed America is capable of great things and its people could and would lead the way if left unburdened by taxation and regulation."



"I can't talk about foreign policy like anyone who's spent their life reading and learning foreign policy. But as a citizen in a democracy, it's very important that I participate in that."


"I must say, to be very honest about it, that I held in my mind during the life of the Commission, that there had been three shots and that a separate shot struck Governor Connally."


"Life is not always like chess. Just because you have the king surrounded, don't think he is not capable of hurting you."


"Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict."


"People always seem to be interested in my private life because I'm married to a pop star."


"If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women."


"To me this movie is about what is valuable. To one person it might be a stone; to someone else, a story in a magazine; to another, it is a child. The juxtaposition of one man obsessed with finding a valuable diamond with another man risking his life to find his son is the beating heart of this film."


"Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned."


"Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it."
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"Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life."


"I'm just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too."


"I don't mean to complain. I wouldn't trade my life for anything."


"I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know."


"It's weird when people come up to me and know stuff about my life. That sort of creeps me out."


"Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories."


"Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared."


"I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back."


"Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal."


"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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