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Life Quotes



"At this point in my life I'd like to live as if only love mattered."


"I didn't fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience - to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers."


"A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up."


"Maybe I've got to admit that what I did here was enough. I can make some more films. Maybe I'll direct a film. Maybe I'll have my musical put on stage. But nothing, really, to be absolutely honest, competes with making a very successful pop band for 10 years of my life."


"And how can you achieve such concentration? By recognizing that everything you do is important to God, and is one vital piece of the larger picture of your life."


"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."



"I moved on with my life but I still have a big commitment to Terri. I made her a promise."


"Studying anthropology, I developed a kind of holistic view of human existence, in which the dichotomies you listed are all necessary and vital aspects of life."


"The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous."


"And in which we say that life is eternal but continue to struggle to survive."


"You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life."


"Last year, I finally got my own grand piano, and that was a big thing for me because it's always been and always will be a very important part of my life."


"Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life."


"The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car... a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little."


"If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life."


"Quite often in life, when a tragic event arrives it becomes a springboard for mirroring all other things in one's life that one hasn't come to terms with."
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"How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it."


"But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium of schools or teachers."



"I have no regrets about launching Salon. For the life of me, I can't imagine doing anything else."
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"I think I remember from the offset I said, 'I've visited this territory. This isn't for me.' And then I read the script and I said, 'You know, this is completely something different. This is a whole new life.'"
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"In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good."



"With any half-hour comedy, it kind of takes on its own life and finds itself."


"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."


"Looking back you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life- and it was you. It is not too late to find that person again."
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