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Life Quotes


"I think I'd like to stay anchoring because, number one, I'm learning a lot, and I love it when I'm learning. And number two, I also have the luxury of a stable life."


"Writing isn't necessarily a gift it is a passion. You can write a one page masterpiece to 99 pages of crap. What keeps you coming back is that Zen moment when you enlightened your own self with a few cleverly arranged words and saved yourself a $200 trip to the shrink, by simply buying a #2 pencil."


"The stupid are always in a tendency to create enemies; on the other hand the clever are always in a tendency to create friendships! Make friends with anything or anybody possible, in short, be clever!"


"Meditation is mind's vacation!"


"Do you want to know what God's will is for you? It is for you to become more and more like Christ. This is spiritual maturity, and if you make this your goal, it will change your life."


"If a man gives you a harsh winter, give him back something unexpected: The warm spring!"



"The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself."


"Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life."


"The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere."


"So the ideology was that: use sounds as instruments, as sounds on tape, without the causality. It was no longer a clarinet or a spring or a piano, but a sound with a form, a development, a life of its own."


"I don't know how to put it, but yet you know we have so many people who the way they look at life, the way they work depends on what happens, us winning or losing. It's kind of crazy. So, I kind of got caught up in that, I'm gonna try to stay away from that."


"If it was really successful, it was a life calling, a career I was excited about doing, so I didn't think the overall risk was anywhere near as high as what the reward was."


"Having Zoe saved my life. It was my wake-up call. There were so many things I didn't want to pass on to her."


"It's part of the celebrity process but my life has never been as interesting or as wild as what's been printed about me."


"I've dodged bullets but there's no scandal in my life."


"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."


"On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France took charge of me and placed me under the care of two Quaker ladies. To their skillful and untiring care I may safely say I owe my life."


"Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all."


"I say that I can't make anything up. I think of myself as a collage artist. I'm cutting and pasting memories of my life. And I say, I have to live a life in order to tell a life. I would prefer to tell it because telling you're always in control, you're like God."


"I guess I had a suspicion of it my entire life without knowing exactly what it was - knowing that there was something different about me, which I attributed to being an artist. At 11 or 12 I started sort of clarifying for myself. It took a while."


"It's weird because horses kind of come and go in my life."


"We gave up having a TV last year. I am out of the loop. Life is way better than TV. I recommend it to anyone who has forgotten they have one."
Life,


"Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love."


"Perspective is the most important thing to have in life."


"Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top."
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