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Life Quotes
"I was pretty young when my father was prime minister, so it wasn't really a big part of my life. My folks were away a lot, meeting foreign dignitaries and that sort of thing, but it never struck me as odd. If anything it allowed me to get into all sorts of mischief."
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"Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live."
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"All my life I've been prejudiced against wealthy people."
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"Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life."
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"Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness."
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"We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance."
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"Don't just count your years, make your years count."
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"Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors."
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"I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life's problems."
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"The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them."
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"I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life."
Life,
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"There's a line in the picture where he snarls, 'Nobody tells me what to do.' That's exactly how I've felt all my life."
Life,
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"The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good."
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"It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels."
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"You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need."
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"I'm more relaxed about life now that I'm older. I like it-despite the wrinkles. It's what I feel inside that's precious."
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"I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again."
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"The various features and aspects of human life, such as longevity, good health, success, happiness, and so forth, which we consider desirable, are all dependent on kindness and a good heart."
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"There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio."
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"A lot of people in my life are getting sick or potentially going to get sick from tobacco."
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"There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.'No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster."
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"If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life."
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"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?"
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"I did not, like my children and people today, grow up with television as part of my life."
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"Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do."
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"But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people's entry into the main current of world-events."
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"I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story."
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