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Life Quotes


"It's easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for 'A Life Less Ordinary'."


"The secret of having a personal life is not answering too many questions about it."


"We should all relax about life because you don't have a clue as to what's really going on."


"I've spent my life pursing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow."


"Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four."



"People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence."


"Men don't have as many difficulties and are more supported to combine the different aspects of their life."


"There are people who help you in life. I've been given a helping hand, and that's why I feel it's my duty to help younger artists."


"Over the long haul of life on this planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants."


"I'm a dog person, I've had dogs all my life. But you see, it's not really a dog. It's more like a little robot. It's an actor. It displays no emotion whatsoever. I swear that dog doesn't know any of us even though we've done five seasons of Frasier."


"I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear."


"Don't sell yourself short because without that you can't go far in life because after sports the only thing you know is sports and you can't do anything else with that."


"That was where my dream began to take hold, of not havin' to pick cotton and potatoes, and not havin' to be uncomfortable, too hot or too cold. That in itself had driven me to try to find some better way of life."


"If I had my life to live over, I would do it all again, but this time I would be nastier."


"After all, the universe required ten billion years of evolution before life was even possible; the evolution of the stars and the evolving of new chemical elements in the nuclear furnaces of the stars were indispensable prerequisites for the generation of life."


"That's the way I got along in life. I don't ever remember being particularly jealous of anybody, because I figured if I can't do it myself, I don't deserve to get it."


"My children are the most important thing in my life."


"I wouldn't call it bitter. I think it's just sweet. I've always believed my life seems like it's gotten better and better as each decade has gone by. So I don't see any I don't see any bitterness about it."



"In Spain and Italy I would not have a life among the fans. Everyone wants to touch you, own you and approach you. I try to be as kind as possible to all my fans, but in those countries I could not do it. There they ask too much from you."


"This is my home, Cape Breton is my home, and I don't know if I really want to leave it as much as I might think and I'm sort of scared to leave it all behind, everything I've lived with, I have so many memories of all the things I've done here and I'm afraid if I leave, I might lose all my memories."


"I would say my greatest achievement in life right now - my greatest achievement period is - and I'm still trying to achieve it - is to be a wonderful father to my kids."



"Once you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated."
Life,


"What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look."


"But this is life on earth, you can't have everything."
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