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Life Quotes


"What you think means more than anything else in your life. More than what you earn, more than where you live, more than your social position, and more than what anyone else may think about you."


"Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed."


"Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse."



"Was everyone else really as alive as she was?... If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion voices, and everyone's thoughts striving in equal importance and everyone's claim on life as intense, and everyone thinking they were unique, when no one was. One could drown in irrelevance."


"A lot of the women I know, that's what they're complaining about - either the man in their life or the lack of a man in their life."


"Remember that things are not always as they appear to be. Curiosity creates possibilities and opportunities."


"I believe the two biggest mistakes made by the Founders were giving Federal judges life-time appointments and permitting them to be confirmed without the agreement of two-thirds of the members of the United States Senate."


"Throughout my life, I have always tried to do what is right."



"That's my favorite subject because it really levels the playing field for artists these days. You don't have to sell out to the record company. You don't have to get a five hundred thousand dollars, or whatever, and pay them back for the rest of your life to record a record."


"In life I've learned one thing; if you want to be good you have to connect with the best people. So I got very close to the high-stakes players here. I get to watch them and play with them a little bit."


"I had the benefit of experiencing a hundred times more than the average kid. I don't look back with regret at all. It was the best life ever."


"There's a lot of different things that we do during life that could personally harm us and I choose not to stop doing those things."


"Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery."


"We are seeing healing among the stolen generations, and initiatives which are enabling Indigenous people to make their distinctive contribution to our national life."


"Mike Bloomberg may be a Republican these days. But he has been a Democrat for most of his adult life."



"She'd decided long ago that life was a long journey. She would be strong and she would be weak, and both would be okay."



"One life - a little gleam of Time between two Eternities."


"Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience."



"Sometimes you don't need a goal in life, you don't need to know the big picture. you just need to know what you're going to do next!"



"There is no private domain of a person's life that is not political, and there is no political issue that is not ultimately personal."
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"I needed a vacation. I needed 5 women. I needed to get the wax out of my ears. My car needed an oil change. I'd failed to file my damned income tax. One of the stems had broken off of my reading glasses. There were ants in my apartment. I needed to get my teeth cleaned. My shoes were run down at the heels. I had insomnia. My auto insurance had expired. I cut myself every time i shaved. I hadn't laughed in 6 years. I tended to worry when there was nothing to worry about. And when there was something to worry about, i got drunk."


"I have to believe there's some other life force out there. I don't know in what form. But we can't have all these galaxies and universes without something going on."


"Jack Kennedy always said to me, Hedy, get involved. That's the secret of life. Try everything. Join everything. Meet everybody."
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"I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either."


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


"When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life."


"Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you."


"I think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life."
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