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Life Quotes


"I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story."


"For the first half of your life, people tell you what you should do; for the second half, they tell you what you should have done."


"Never separate the life you live from the words you speak."


"You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself."


"As soon as it was understood that we could handle things in our own way, it was the thrill of my life to walk out on that stage with people just hemming the band in."


"Don't waste your whole lifetime waiting for the perfect life when there's a perfectly good one within and right in front of you."


"The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs."


"The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy."


"Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people."


"Knowledge is the life of the mind."


"By the time ordinary life asserted itself once more, I would feel I had already lived for a while in some other lifetime, that I had even taken over someone else's life."


"I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence."


"The highest point of philosophy is to be both wise and simple; this is the angelic life."


"Sometimes you trust someone who turns out not to be honest. There are a lot of things that happen in life that don't turn out the way you're given the impression that they will. And I think that's all kind of a con. But I think we've probably all been hurt."


"For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance."


"All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific."


"The abortion issue has intersected with my public life from the very beginning."


"You're not really necessarily the coolest guy in their life. You are a conduit to the really cool people."


"Sometimes stories are inherently important whether or not they have a direct relation to your life."
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"My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference."


"We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance."


"You know it's very difficult to be an actor, and to have people depending on you to say the right line, at the right time, and to not be able to hear your cues! I can't tell you how many times I would've had to have said What? if I didn't have my hearing aids. So my hearing aids are a life saver, and they allow me to practice my craft."


"Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!"


"The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves."
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