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Life Quotes


"Keeping it all normal and keeping us together is my first priority. Then I fit films into my life."


"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."



"I think everyone has a certain kind of formula in their life. When you deviate from that formula, you're going to fail big or you're gonna win big."


"The life of the individual is a continuous combat with errors and obstacles, and no victory is more satisfying than the one achieved against opposition."


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


"A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs."


"I think maybe the rural influence in my life helped me in a sense, of knowing how to get close to people and talk to them and get my work done."



"It would be unthinkable in Canadian public life today for the public inauguration of our supreme political figures to be accompanied by prayer."


"You shouldn't have to give things up for someone. If you love them someone, you should love them for everything they do and all that they are. I love acting and I wouldn't give it up for anything, and I don't know anyone in my life who would ask me to give it up."


"Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law."


"I am playing with the assumptions that we have in our everyday life when we are tripped up or fooled and we learn something, that makes things exciting - I am having fun with that stuff, but you have to manage it so it doesn't get too cute, that's what I trying to work toward."


"Maybe because she doesn't try so hard to seduce and impress, I guess that's why some guys fell for her. Because she's so different and crazy and we all like a little bit of that in our life."
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"On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise."


"Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity are both accepted as scientific fact even though they're mutually exclusive. Albert Einstein spent the second half of his life searching for a unifying truth that would reconcile the two."


"Life for rent means that my life isn't really my own, I only rented it for a while, but if I don't manage to buy it, to own it, then nothing of what I think is mine is really mine."


"I've put in as many as 40 weeks a year on stage. It is lonely and restricted, as all artistic life must necessarily be."


"You have to remember that coaching wasn't sophisticated back then - you didn't have the camps, clinics and all the technical advances that are available today - so from that standpoint, playing with a cast on my arm was a fortunate event in my life."



"I was always interested in doing it, but I was so content with my life that I didn't really go after it."



"Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life."


"But, I think that the reason I responded to this book, sort of paradoxically, is that it starts out like The Big Chill, sort of. Four friends, who are not quite happy with their life, and every year they get together for a week and look for some comfort from each other."


"Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it comes out of the needs of life and is dedicated to life's further development."


"John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my life back then."


"The community of masses of human beings has produced an order of life in regulated channels which connects individuals in a technically functioning organisation, but not inwardly from the historicity of their souls."


"The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins."


"Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so."


"The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life."


"To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated."


"Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious."


"The more you learn what to do with yourself, and the more you do for others, the more you will learn to enjoy the abundant life."


"Crime is one of the leads of the show. If there's ever anything that deals with a character's personal life, you don't have to worry about it getting too crazy. People don't have to worry about character arcs. Each episode is a self-contained unit."


"Each song has its own secret that's different from another song, and each has its own life. Sometimes it has to be teased out, whereas other times it might come fast. There are no laws about songwriting or producing. It depends on what you're doing, not just who you're doing."


"It's too hard a life for me. I could only do it - check out in that sense - if I checked out somewhere that was luxurious and within hailing distance of civilization."



"Once in one's life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality; if not, one has not lived."


"The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well."
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