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Life Quotes


"I've had a normal life, but I have struggled to get here. It hasn't been handed to me and it hasn't been easy."
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"If they ever do my life story, whoever plays me needs lots of hair color and high heels."


"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."


"Plans are invitation to disappointment."


"As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets, the advantage of containing no organic material at all, so as to be independent of both these conditions, would be increasingly felt."



"The future of the world belongs to the youth of the world, and it is from the youth and not from the old that the fire of life will warm and enlighten the world. It is your privilege to breathe the breath of life into the dry bones of many around you."


"It's very easy for me to thank everyone for the incredible contribution they've made to my life."
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"In my plays I want to look at life - at the commonplace of existence-as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time."


"Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual."


"Everything about my teenage life was almost ideal."


"My daughter, when she was a week old, was diagnosed with congenital heart disease. For the past thirteen years, she's had four major heart surgeries. She's a candidate for - and must have - heart replacement surgery in order to have a long life."


"I don't enjoy the life of an actress, but I don't want to go into that."


"The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare."



"I love the life of a musician but I live the life of a bodybuilder."


"Because I just loved to spend two years of my life in the company of Andy Kaufman and other characters."



"There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the beloved."


"What you feel spiritually. I think a lot of that has to do with it. If you have no spiritual life, chances are everything is going to aggravate you, you're going to fly off the handle at everything and that's what I did in the past. I've kind of got that under control now."


"I think that one of the strengths of Cop Shoot Cop lay in the different, and at times, clashing personalities, Ideally, I want to have both ways of working in my life."



"Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales."


"With two little boys in diapers, I had to keep it simple if I were going to have a life at all."


"People are concerned, here again, about life, and haven't given a whole lot of attention to how you make fathers responsible for the lives they bring into the world."


"My life is very exciting now. Nostalgia for what? It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind and see the steps. That's where I was. We're here right now. Tomorrow, we'll be someplace else. So why nostalgia?"



"The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent."


"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things."
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