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Life Quotes


"If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state."


"Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event."


"Everybody always asks about Jimmy Fallon. I'm sorry to say that he's very nice and there's not much bad to say about him. I don't know if he sucks at videogames or not. I don't think he plays them, but he could have this whole secret life I don't know about."
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"I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy."


"Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances."


"A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises."


"Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?"



"I think that those are the things that you can uniquely do with film that are difficult to do anywhere else: they can bring a picture to life, give it a natural and historical context and make you feel that everything else is suddenly credible."


"It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life."


"I've never felt more comfortable in my skin, I've never enjoyed life as much and I feel so lucky."


"I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players."


"Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life."


"People in this room must have back problems, I'm sure some of us do, and it is really, really one of the worst pains and debilitating parts of your body that you can actually have because you really can't do anything in your life when you have it."


"I have four kids; three girls and a boy. The oldest girl is 13, and has her own social life now, so there's a bit of begrudging cooperation there. It's tough."


"Forty-two years ago, I came to America from communist Cuba so I might have a better way of life, a freer way of life - a more democratic way of life. I wanted to live the American Dream where if you worked hard and put your mind to the task, anything was possible."


"You are in integrity when the life you are living on the outside matches who you are on the inside."


"How happy I am to go to the front at last. To do my bit. To prove with my life what I think I feel."
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"It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph."


"We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness."


"It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it."



"After convincing myself that was maybe you should at least help out your neighborhood, I really started to think about it later on in life."


"Fortunately or unfortunately, the greatest authority on matters of life is life itself."


"The best part of the journey is the surprise and wonder along the way."


"Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel."


"This was almost two hours of factual documentary. In our audience ratings, barely no one left the programme. The whole of his life is so fascinating and people kept watching for that reason."


"More than seven months ago, our country learned that the horrors portrayed in Hollywood's make-believe world could actually come to life before our very eyes."


"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."
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