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Life Quotes


"I'm not into one-night stands. I've only slept with three guys in my life and they all involve relationships."


"I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring."



"I did not, like my children and people today, grow up with television as part of my life."


"I draw a weekly comic strip called Life in Hell, which is syndicated in about 250 newspapers. That's what I did before The Simpsons, and what I plan to do for the rest of my life."


"I had too many big passions in life and it gets in the way of work. You can't concentrate properly on the one thing."


"When the water is very calm and very beautiful, it won't take a long time that a thick head will throw a stone in it!"


"I make photographs and still make photographs of the natural environment. It's a love because that was part of my life before I was involved in photography."


"When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists."
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"In Aristotle the mind, regarded as the principle of life, divides into nutrition, sensation, and faculty of thought, corresponding to the inner most important stages in the succession of vital phenomena."


"I've been a long time coming, and I'll be a long time gone. You've got your whole life to do something, and that's not very long."


"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."


"I am full of gratitude for my life - and for this house."



"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives."



"By laughing at me, the audience really laughs at themselves, and realizing they have done this gives them sort of a spiritual second wind for going back into the battles of life."


"My books are about ordinary people, like you, me, people on the street, people who really have an expectation of reasonable happiness in life, want their life to have a sense of security and predictability, who want to belong to something bigger than them, who want love and affection in their life, who want a good future for the children."


"At first, I only laughed at myself. Then I noticed that life itself is amusing. I've been in a generally good mood ever since."


"The relationship between a manufacturer and his advertising agency is almost as intimate as the relationship between a patient and his doctor. Make sure that you can life happily with your prospective client before you accept his account."



"There is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations."


"We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away."


"It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it."



"To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life."


"There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms."


"No, my profile has leaped over recent years, so has my life experience, and I look forward to the next 30 years being even more rewarding and satisfying than the previous 60!"


"I've been an important star and lived a full life, yet I only hve three close friends. I guess that's all anyone can expect."


"Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life."
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