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Life Quotes


"Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future."


"Be very strong... be very methodical in your life if you want to be a champion."


"I'm very happy with the way I look. I wake up some morning, catch myself in the bathroom mirror, and go, 'hey girl, you're alright'. But on the other hand, I find the website stuff, and the polls, something completely removed from my own personal life. You can't take anything like that too seriously, otherwise you'd end up in the loony bin."


"Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater."


"I'm proud of what I achieved there, but a life built on memories is not much of a life."


"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."


"Besides all those whaling details, Moby Dick is about someone who's looking for something so huge, something they've wanted all their life, yet they know when they find it, it will kill them."


"I've tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example."


"Every day, people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness."


"So there was a constant flow and a thin line there between reality and television and yes, much of what I was experiencing in my real life was also what was going on in the television show to the extent that I had to take writers' advice and from the counselors around."


"Everybody always asks about Jimmy Fallon. I'm sorry to say that he's very nice and there's not much bad to say about him. I don't know if he sucks at videogames or not. I don't think he plays them, but he could have this whole secret life I don't know about."
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"Life for me has been exactly what I thought it would be, a cake, which I have eaten and had too."


"A man doesn't have to have all the answers; children will teach him how to parent them, and in the process will teach him everything he needs to know about life."


"The whole thing about acting, the draw for me, is the opportunity to do things you don't get to do in real life."


"I'm trying to assemble materials for a different mode of life."


"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television."


"Being a kid and growing up is such a cool part of life."


"In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment."


"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."



"Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves."


"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."


"The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt."


"The best that can be said of my life so far is that it has been industrious, and the best that can be said of me is that I have not pretended to what I was not."
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"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!'"


"There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls."


"The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life."


"How happy I am to go to the front at last. To do my bit. To prove with my life what I think I feel."
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"I'm not qualified to do anything else. So there better be another job. I'm kind of stuck now. I'm enjoying my life and I'm enjoying my work, and I'm enjoying the fact that the work I'm doing is garnering some interest and that's great. I just hope that it continues."
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