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Life Quotes


"I would alter nothing of the journey made for it is in this road travelled that the sweetest of lessons are learnt."


"A healthy love life is not and should not be the preserve of those in their 20s and 30s. It's important at all ages."


"There are always things to examine. What's great is not feeling that I have to refuse any of them. Maybe no good from a PR perspective, but from the point of view of everyday life, it keeps things interesting."


"The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done."
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"Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries."



"If you've ever been in a position in your life where you just can't take any more, you just have to get through the next second, and the next second after that."
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"The trunk of the car looked like a mobile police narcotics lab. We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers . . . and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls . . . Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. And I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon."


"I've always been able to decide what was more important at different points in my life, but I never gave up personal things to work, never."


"I suppose you could sum up the religious aspects of my boyhood by saying it was a time of life when I was taught the difference between right and wrong as it specifically applied to Catholicism."


"Radio, newspapers, they were normal parts of my life. In those days, you had to go somewhere to watch television and leave something to see it."


"Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life."


"True relaxation, which would do me the world of good, does not exist for me."


"You can start anew at any given moment. Life is just the passage of time and it's up to you to pass it as you please."


"In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility, access to facilities, simple routine care and attention."


"You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning."


"Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life."


"I have those songs as well. It depends on what I'm going through in my life but I'm a huge fan of Bjork. Sometimes I get so emotional because she's so amazing."



"In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great concern to his own law-enforcement officials, not to mention the nation."


"Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect."



"The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person."


"Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it."


"Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble."


"You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you."


"There is no permanence or guarantee in this life."


"I've never been anywhere in my life like it and I only really noticed it when I returned to Los Angeles and then Berlin. Everybody is much better off in these places, there is not poverty like in Cuba, but everybody complains about things."
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