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Life Quotes


"I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I'm pig-headed."



"The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions."


"Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life."


"I think I'll work all my life. When you're having fun, why stop having fun?"


"We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time."


"Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors."



"Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses."
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"Children are so creative and imaginative that they just bring you to life all over again."


"If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life."


"You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need."


"Now I'm seen by more people in one episode than I was in 20 years of theatre and movies. It's gratifying to have an impact on 25 million people a night, but I can say goodbye to my lunch-pail life as a working actor. I'm scared I might be a celebrity."


"I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy."


"Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self."


"Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all."


"As the President has indicated, my life has been a life of travel - for 60 years constantly moving over the wide world on journeys which first and last have taken me to 83 countries, and, what is more significant, to most of them again and again."


"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."


"To become a classical ballerina, you have to move to New York when you're 12 or 11 and that becomes your life. I just wanted to be good in my company in Charleston and I wanted it to always be part of my life."


"The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life."


"Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that 'this too shall pass!'"


"I came to Christ when I was thirty-eight. That transformed my life."


"It's a great time to be an actress at this point in my life."


"The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it."
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