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Life Quotes


"The minute anyone's getting anxious I say, You must eat and you must sleep. They're the two vital elements for a healthy life."


"The victim mentality may be the last uncomplicated thing about life in America."



"I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness."


"There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life."


"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."


"But enough joking. I am singing. This is all my life."


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


"Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions."


"The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit."


"That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another."


"We stay the same as we've always been, keeping to the path we've walked our whole lives. Paths that carry so much importance and perceived stability that we are utterly convinced it is the only one to walk " that anyone not walking it with us is being misled."


"All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in."


"Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting."


"As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life."



"Once you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated."
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"I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood."



"I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here."


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


"You don't have to be a wreck. You don't have to be sick. One's aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out."


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


"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."


"Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth."


"After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life."


"Every minute you spend in your life is either spent bringing you closer to your goals or moving you away from your goals."


"That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way."
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