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Life Quotes


"He was scarcely then a year old, and knew so little of herding that he had never turned a sheep in his life; but as soon as he discovered it was his duty to do so I can never forget with what anxiety and eagerness he learned his different evolutions."


"I never consciously said, 'I want to be an actor.' It sounds stupid, but it's kind of like being a painter or something. You don't say, 'From today on I'm going to be a painter.' It's not something conscious - you've just been painting pictures all your life."


"I worked with him for ten years until he died and it was the most wonderful time of my life."



"Physiology is concerned with all those phenomena of life that present them selves to us in sense perception as bodily processes, and accordingly form part of that total environment which we name the external world."



"For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited."


"Others live on in a careless and lukewarm state - not appearing to fill Longfellow's measure: 'Into each life, some rain must fall.'"


"If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet."


"Some folks think I painted Lincoln from life, but I haven't been around that long. Not quite."
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"I know I cannot do all the stuff that I did ten years ago."


"Don't look at the downside of everything that comes along. It helps life move along so much smoother and nicer."
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"We explore astronomical life through medicate experience, and we live life through love and ardvarks."


"Water is a finite resource that is essential in the advancement of agriculture, and is vital to human life."


"The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life."


"I was a young kid from Long Island who wanted to do something large with her life, so I can relate to that."
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"No no there wasn't any planned 14th season, we all saw the writing on the wall. The ratings had been going down and so fourth, that curve goes on every show and in everybody's life."


"Americans are crazy. They have this fascination with throwing their shoes on stage. I've been to a lot of shows in me life, some good and some bad. But I was never moved to take off me shoes and throw it at the lead singer."


"I demand for the unmarried mother, as a sacred channel of life, the same reverence and respect as for the married mother; for Maternity is a cosmic thing and once it has come to pass, our conversation must not be permitted to blaspheme it."


"I have worked all my life, wanted to work all my life, needed to work all my life."


"You don't need anybody's permission to prove yourself, just prove yourself."



"How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit."



"We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages - we don't throw it away all at once."
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"I couldn't imagine my life being any more successful than it is now."


"Life had stopped for her a long time ago. She was so out of touch with her feelings that she had no joy in her life and no concept of the fact that she could be wrong. She delivered her care of her insane patients in a killing manner, but she was convinced she was right."



"I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of the 2000 election in the US and say that electoral politics doesn't matter any more, and that Ralph Nader was right when he said there is no difference between the two parties."



"It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner."


"If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication."



"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."


"Certain motherfuckers think they can fuck with my shit, but you can't kill the Rooster. You might can fuck him up some times, but, bitch, nobody kills the motherfucking Rooster. You know what I'm saying?"
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