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Life Quotes


"As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life."


"I want it to be remembered that Ozzy was the first celebrity who was brave enough to open up his private life to the public. He was the first."


"I made my first Australian senior team when I was 16, first Olympics when I was 19, and I retired. I'm 32, I retired four years ago, so a good third of my life or nearly a third of my life has been all about running."


"What has made America great have been the opportunities given to everyone in this country. Since our founding, individuals and families have come to America to seek freedom, opportunity and the choice for a better life."


"The loneliness is when you pick up and move, even if you are not originally from that place, and you have some memories that you want to embrace. Having a life in transit, I feel like you are always looking out the back window."


"At the end of the day, humans are social animals and we are at our best when we get to do things with others who appreciate and enjoy what we enjoy. It's what keeps us human."


"We discussed politics, but we also talked about the importance of hard work, personal responsibility, living within your means, keeping your word. Those lessons stay with you throughout your life."


"The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms."


"Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life."


"In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained."


"I would dare say that most anyone in public life, if they stay in public long enough, is not treated fairly."


"I think there is something for all of us where you find a balance in your life, where you feel that everything you do isn't about your own creature comforts or satisfying your own appetites. Some of it has to be directed outward and there is a huge satisfaction in that."


"We cannot sacrifice innocent human life now for vague and exaggerated promises of medical treatments thirty of forty years from now. There are ways to pursue this technology and respect life at the same time."


"Never forget the life experiences, Aloneness and companionship. Cold and warmth. Hard times and good times. Failure and success. Pain and healing. Planting and harvesting. Poverty and prosperity. Searching and finding. Sorrow and happiness. Tears and joy."


"Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination."


"Girlfriend and 100 Percent Fun were my two peeks, around '92 and '96. The reality is that the times I had the most media success, sold lots of records and played bigger shows, I had the least control of my own life."


"Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone."


"The reason progress is slow is that we always expect other men to be the heroes and to live the heroic lives. But we all have hero stuff in us. In our sphere of life we can always live more heroically and triumphantly and grow in heroic stature."


"I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life."


"Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization."


"A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism."


"I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives."


"I've spent my whole life with people underestimating me."
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