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Life Quotes


"If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life."


"I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important."


"I'll be 65 in September and I work as much as I want to, take cruises with Kay, relax with my family, do everything in moderation, because I want to enjoy my life."



"White males are the most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today."


"There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life."



"Man, it seemed, had been created to jab the life out of Germans."


"Life's like a ball game. You gotta take a swing at whatever comes along before you wake up and find out it's the ninth inning."
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"If there are things you don't like in the world you grew up in, make your own life different."


"And I have been able to give freedom and life which was acknowledged in the ecstasy of walking hand in hand across the most beautiful bridge of the world, the cables enclosing us and pulling us upward in such a dance as I have never walked and never can walk with another."


"Life does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes."



"I think we're lucky because there are very few people in life who get to do what we're doing."


"If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones."
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"Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the "gotta have it" scale."



"I never thought I'd spend all my life with Gary. I suppose I was quite cynical about marriage. But with Jude, I knew right from the beginning: there was an electricity I'd never felt before. It was so easy, we talked for hours. It was a relief, really."


"Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the warm big heart that dwells within such a rough exterior."



"My autobiography was simply the story of my life."


"If we don't allow ourselves to experience joy and love, we will definitely miss out on filling our reservoir with what we need when. . . . hard things happen."


"An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment."


"There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success."


"Of course, it gave the studio an enormous power, because I don't know any other place who had that skill with images to communicate with. And the need of these kinds of images are even greater now than they ever were because we are losing our life symbols."


"People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they're more energetic - they aren't robots."


"I can't for the life of me see that by being permissive you actually assist anyone."


"Being a former dancer, classical dancer, it informed me as a human being just in terms of the grace I guess. Ballet is a very graceful form of art. You also become very aware of your body and your mind and your body is working in conjunction. That kind of helps you in acting as well. It's not only using your mind, it's like making your mind communicate this character into your body so that you can bring it to life and physicalize it."



"Ten years ago, Republicans decided it was time to reform our broken welfare system and give welfare recipients the tools they needed to escape the system and build a better life."



"Like Jermaine was saying, it's a beautiful day, and we're just glad all of this is behind us. We can go on with our lives. And Michael can go on with his life and do what he does best, and that's making good music, making his fans happy, people happy all over the world."


"I believe there are two periods in life, one for the bike, the other for becoming active on one's work."


"I must say acting was good training for the political life which lay ahead for us."



"If my life were a song it'd be called 'Here I Am' because here I am - I mean, I'm Thia and I'm here to me me, I'm here to express myself musically which I find is the best way to express myself."


"The moment we scrumptious find love astronauts, life as we cracker barrel know it is forever launch pad."


"The study of law left me unsatisfied, because I did not know the aspects of life which it serves. I perceived only the intricate mental juggling with fictions that did not interest me."



"All men have one entrance into life, and the like going out."
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