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Life Quotes


"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose."


"She believed in getting as much use as possible from everything, and thought that as long as machinery, or anything else, could be cajoled into operation, it should be kept; to do otherwise, she thought, was wasteful."


"Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice."


"What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all."


"All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them."


"So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die."


"Well," he said. "I hope to God I never make forty -- I wouldn't know what to do with myself."


"I have gotten to a point in my life where I don't want to have dinner with someone I don't like."


"It's not the most normal life in the world, but I screw up plenty of times to be a normal teenager."


"A woman of many talents. And intelligent, too. He'd probably have to kill her soon."


"I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life."
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"I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me."


"Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author."


"I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either."


"My personal life is the same. At the end of the day, this is just a job. I love what I do, and it's a great job. But it's like my alter ego. There's Chris Brown the singer. And there's Christopher Brown, the down-home Tappahannock boy that plays video games and basketball and hangs out."


"I've had a lot of highs in my life and a lot of lows, some pivotal experiences, and in ways I feel like I've already lived a couple of lives."
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"Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late in life."


"But most importantly, we can all be donors. It does not matter how old you are, your race, where you live; all of us can give the gift of life."


"Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination."


"All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it."


"The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much."


"Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!"


"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."


"I've got over so much. Mum wouldn't want anything to come into my life that would make me fragile again."


"The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes."


"Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath."


"The difference being that in films, unlike in life, good does always win over evil in the end."
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