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Life Quotes


"As a first generation Jewish American, I have witnessed firsthand Jewish immigrants who have come to this Nation in order to create a better life for themselves, their families, and future generations."


"Times of my life, brief periods without music, have completely felt dangerously over the edge."


"Music is supposed to wash away the dust of everyday life."


"My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water."


"I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains."


"Moreover, the abundance of chemical compounds and their importance in daily life hindered the chemist from investigating the question, in what does the individuality of the atoms of different elements consist."


"The whole romantic part of my life was a wipeout. I didn't even own a belt."


"When the men kill, it is up to us women to fight for the preservation of life."


"The comics that are just conversing with you up there and drawing on their own life, yeah, I guess so. I guess some do political humor, some do topical humor, but the ones that I like, the ones that are appealing to me, were guys who were just talking to you about their life."


"Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it."


"Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and says, Oh, you can't do that."


"If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something."


"No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built."


"Until you know that life is interesting - and find it so - you haven't found your soul."


"You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same."


"Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity."


"Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts."


"Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die."


"For over two billion years, through the apparent fancy of her endless differentiations and metamorphosis the Cell, as regards its basic physiological mechanisms, has remained one and the same. It is life itself, and our true and distant ancestor."
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