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Life Quotes



"If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there would be no need for fiction."


"For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination."


"I take away something from every role. I'm still learning and that's what life is about."


"BEWARE DON'T RUN AFTER A MIRAGEWe were happier when we were poor. We were happier when we did not have good food to eat or good clothes to wear. We were happier when we did not have a luxurious life. We were happier when we did not have our own house because we had a home, a family and understood, loved and lived for each other. I have failed to understand what we run after even when we have all."


"Fashion doesn't make you perfect, but it makes you pretty."


"We are looking for value, guidance, advice, inspiration; for someone to show us the way. When we find him, he is our hero."


"No one OWES you a THING. So don't EXPECT it. You're on your OWN."


"Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle."


"I don't really know of the Jewish tradition of comedy, only the Jewish tradition of not keeping your mouth shut. Complaining about all that is hard, unfair or ridiculous in life-having strong feelings, and not being able to suppress them. That, to me, is Jewish."


"Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life."



"I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching."


"It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer."


"Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play."


"I don't remember the first half of my life. All I say is a happy childhood is the worst possible preparation for life."


"I want that which is hilarious and that which is heartbreaking to occupy the same territory in the book because I think they very often occupy the same territory in life, much as we try to separate them."


"The greatest real thrill that life offers is to create, to construct, to develop something useful. Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs."


"Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole."


"Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion."



"I've kind of fashioned my life after a Slinky. Bend me in a million shapes, and eventually I'll spring back to what I originally was."



"In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by."



"A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries."



"But there's not enough time in life to go sit at a party, have a drink, and make idle conversation. There's too many important things to do. Just being together with my husband, spending time alone, which I have very little of."


"Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one."


"I've been living with the minor second all my life and I finally found a way to handle it."


"With one man, there was a freedom and liberation. That was with Michael Hutchence, my partner in life."


"What basically happens is your hormones get out of whack. Because of the stress in your life your body says, 'I need more hormones.' So, your hormones are trying to produce and produce and produce, and it's even more stressful and it is this wicked cycle."



"My life has never been easy. It's like all the major events of my life have always been difficult."
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