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Life Quotes


"But seriously, I think overall in the scheme of things winning an Emmy is not important. Let's get our priorities straight. I think we all know what's really important in life - winning an Oscar."


"People don't live nowadays: they get about ten percent out of life."



"We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before, really, has come into its own."


"Obviously, you check tht she's safe, she's clean, got all the fingers and toes, like that's going to help them through life. It'll help them walk, but you can't pull them out and check their IQ or anything."


"Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man."


"My world view is somewhat unique. I have learned from many great philosophers including Plato, Socrates, Buddha, Jesus, Darwin, Tagore, Emerson, and many more."


"The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one."


"I take account of my life and find that I have lived a lot and learned very little."


"As the President has indicated, my life has been a life of travel - for 60 years constantly moving over the wide world on journeys which first and last have taken me to 83 countries, and, what is more significant, to most of them again and again."


"Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event."


"My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people."


"Back 20 years ago, I was recording with Bruce Springsteen, and his producer called me and said I had to be in the studio the next day to finish the sessions, and I couldn't. I had to be in court, in California. All this took like 10 years out of my life."


"But the point of using the number was to show that sex was a great part of my life as basketball was a great part of my life. That's the reason why I was single."


"Even though we work in the same field, we have an intense private life away from our professional lives."


"The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well."


"I don't particularly dislike any kind of person that might be reading my stuff. They like it and that's cool, but I don't do the work for any kind of group in particular, except for hobos, who just plain kick ass and light up my life."


"We sing these songs for the everyday occasions of life, and they are very close to the hearts of our people."


"Mandy was thinking back to when she was five years old, when she, her parents and Jud went outside before Christmas and had a snowball fight with the gray snow of Sydney Mines. "This is a wicked blast, Jud would say, and Mandy would snap photos with a 35mm disposable film camera, photos she wished very much she could step into sometimes."


"The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson."


"Class is the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life."


"That's my advice to all homosexuals, whether they're in the Boy Scouts, or in the Army or in high school: Shut up, don't tell anybody what you do, your life will be a lot easier."


"This was the most important discovery I had ever made in my life. It was a discovery which has irrevocably changed my whole life's direction. It immediately elevated me to the status of one of the world's leading anthropologists."


"You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers."


"For much of my life there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone."


"I have four kids; three girls and a boy. The oldest girl is 13, and has her own social life now, so there's a bit of begrudging cooperation there. It's tough."
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