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Life Quotes


"The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live."


"Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us."


"My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring."


"I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself."


"It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life."


"For those who have made the ultimate sacrifice, we are grateful that such men and women were among us. For those who continue to serve, we honor their commitment. For those who return to civilian life, we honor their service."


"Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive."


"I spend as much time with my kids as any mom who stays home. I only work during the hours they're at school, but there is always the sense of trying to catch up with all their stuff and not only organize my work life but also their school lives."


"An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match."


"The book grew out of the introduction I did for Brady's Gates of Janus. I knew that the writing in that introduction had a better than average chance of being read by people involved in Brady's life - parents of victims, police, Brady himself."


"You can definitely become a victim and let people completely destroy your life."


"True virtue is life under the direction of reason."


"When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life."


"I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I'm pig-headed."


"And for me the only way to live life is to grab the bull by the horns and call up recording studios and set dates to go in recording studios. To try and accomplish something."
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"I manage to scrape together a private life, despite the press."


"I keep living life as it's dealt to me. Sometimes, it's not dealt 100 percent. Sometimes it's dealt on the low '30s."


"I have always wanted a bunny and I'll always have a rabbit the rest of my life."


"This gets back to the fundamental lesson of political survival that Bill Clinton taught me, which is if you make it about the American people's lives instead of your life, you're going to be okay."


"In short, we cannot grow, we cannot achieve authentic discovery, and our eyes cannot be cleansed to the truly beautiful possibilities of life, if we simply live a neutral existence."


"I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else."


"I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence."


"The real end of prayer is not so much to get this or that single desire granted, as to put human life into full and joyful conformity with the will of God."
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