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Life Quotes



"The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system; what exists beyond our solar system is mere guesswork."


"My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference."


"Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible."


"I think that life has a secret, and children they hold that secret. Maybe it's not given to everybody to discover this thing."


"I think the supernatural is a catch-all for everything we don't understand about the vast other parts of life that we cannot perceive."


"Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme."


"It is a thoroughly anti-christian doctrine that the Spirit of God, and therefore the life and governing power of the Church, resides in the ministry, to the exclusion of the people."


"Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life."


"Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how."


"My mother told me I was begging her to be an actor when I was four. My father and my grandfather saw at least one or two movies a week; they were film buffs, so I guess it just rubbed off on me. And now it's kind of become a way of life for me."


"This friend of mine said he was surprised to find that - I don't think it's quite a majority - a bigger percentage of actors are introverts than extroverts. It was a big surprise to him. Now, I know me, and I'll do anything if I'm playing a character. Or anything that's true to the character, anyway. But in real life I'm a little more withdrawn."


"Listen, when you take my liberty away, you've taken away more-something more precious than life. I mean, what good is a life without liberty? Huh? None."


"Is it absurd to imagine that our social behavior, from amoeba to man, is also planned and dictated, from stored information, by the cells? And that the time has come for men to be entrusted with the task, through heroic efforts, of bringing life to other worlds?"


"Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse."


"It's a marvellous life, a gregarious life that we've had. We're very lucky in that way. Unlike writers or painters, we don't sit down in front of a blank canvas and say, 'How do I start? Where do I start?'"



"It is a career of make-believe, of masks. We all have masks in life."


"I enjoyed growing up part of my life in Virginia Beach. We had the ocean and the beach and a beautiful landscape. We were outdoors all the time and we played outside."


"As a first generation Jewish American, I have witnessed firsthand Jewish immigrants who have come to this Nation in order to create a better life for themselves, their families, and future generations."


"Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership."



"I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got."



"People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence."


"The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them."


"All I know is, he's a good kid, and he's done right all his life. And he always treats other people right."


"The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life."


"It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist."


"It's a miracle to be an actor and to know that you have a job to go to a year from now is a rare thing, so I think peace of mind and financial stability come with that. Hopefully I'm a little wiser and have a little more perspective in my life than I did then."
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