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Life Quotes


"Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life."


"Everyone gets the feeling that they know you and they know your life, and I felt really embarrassed by that."


"The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a unit, however powerful, but by the consensus of a group, which must one day include all states."


"Usually you talk about directors in terms of the way they choose camera lenses or a kind of light to create a certain effect. But to me the most valuable commodity for a movie to create is a feeling of life, and that's what A Hard Day's Night has in spades."


"I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory."


"There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for."


"But I don't think that sculpture belongs in everyday life like a table does, or like a chair."


"Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it comes out of the needs of life and is dedicated to life's further development."


"I love the life I live. The Lord blessed me to be independent. I am independent."


"John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my life back then."


"Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things."


"The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation."


"One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation."



"I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera."
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"'Tis the set of the sail that decides the goal, and not the storm of life."


"I've never looked ahead very much in my life. I've never had any grand plan from the outset. I had no burning ambition to do what I do."


"I am always the better for open-air breathing, and was certainly meant for the wandering life of the Indian."


"One life - a little gleam of Time between two Eternities."


"Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people."


"If I die tomorrow, I've accomplished everything I wanted to do in life."


"In addressing you I feel that I am not so much speaking to the representatives of diverse States of Europe and America as to the exponents of principles and hopes that are common to us all, and without which our life on earth would be a life without horizon or prospect."


"Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience."
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