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Life Quotes


"An architect draws the plans for a new building-but it still has to be built. A composer writes a new piece of music-but it still has to be played. A chef devises a new recipe-but the ingredients still have to be cooked. In the same way, God has given us a blueprint for living-but we must know what it is and then put it into action."


"Such is life and life is such and after all it isn't much. First a cradle. Then a hearse. It might have been better, but it could have been worse."


"The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy."


"Let me say that the path I did take for a brief period of my life was not of reckless drug use, hurting others, but it was a path of quiet rebellion, of a little experimentation of a darker side of my confusion in a confusing world, lost in the midst of finding my identity."


"Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything."


"You know, this is - one can imagine how life would be different if one body of Congress was controlled by the other party, there would be subpoena power and there would be all - mechanisms to get to the bottom of all sorts of issues of controversy."



"Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life."



"The secret of life is to have no fear; it's the only way to function."


"I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself."


"I like the good life too much, I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons."



"The primary source of the appeal of Christianity was Jesus - His incarnation, His life, His crucifixion, and His resurrection."



"I've produced more pilots than United Airlines, and they've all been disasters. Every audition I ever took in my life I lost."


"The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead."


"We should all relax about life because you don't have a clue as to what's really going on."


"To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication."


"We've restored life where life was extinct. It's no longer sufficient to bring the dead back to life. We must create from the beginning, we must build up our own creature, build it up from nothing."


"There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can."
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