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"It's the only way that YOUR life is gonna have any value to you. If you're just living the same life that everybody else is living what's the point?"

"It's the only way that YOUR life is gonna have any value to you. If you're just living the same life that everybody else is living what's the point?"

Todd Rundgren, American Musician

Life, Living, Value

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"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?"

"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?"

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

Life, Love, Sleep

43

"Life with another person is always difficult."

"Life with another person is always difficult."

Yoko Ono, American Artist

43

"I may be revered or defamed and decried; But I tried to live my life right."

"I may be revered or defamed and decried; But I tried to live my life right."

Tracy Chapman, American Musician

Life, May, Right

43

"I've always drawn on bits and pieces of my own life."

"I've always drawn on bits and pieces of my own life."

Armistead Maupin, American Novelist

43

"I do think it's possible to go through life and never fall in love, or find someone who loves you."

"I do think it's possible to go through life and never fall in love, or find someone who loves you."

Steven Morrissey, English Musician

43

"When I heard his first songs, Dylan was answering certain questions that I had all my life been asking myself."

"When I heard his first songs, Dylan was answering certain questions that I had all my life been asking myself."

Nana Mouskouri, Greek Musician

Life, First, Questions, Songs

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"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."

"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."

Mike Ditka, American Coach

Life, Control, Now, Past

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"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."

"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."

Jim Coleman, American Actor

43

"Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives."

"Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives."

Friedrich Schiller, German Dramatist

Life, Body, Fame, Name

43

"I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me."

"I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me."

Sting, British Musician

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"The offshore ocean area under U.S. jurisdiction is larger than our land mass, and teems with plant and animal life, mineral resources, commerce, trade, and energy sources."

"The offshore ocean area under U.S. jurisdiction is larger than our land mass, and teems with plant and animal life, mineral resources, commerce, trade, and energy sources."

Tom Allen, American Politician

Life, Commerce, Energy, Land

43

"Although the dream is a very strange phenomenon and an inexplicable mystery, far more inexplicable is the mystery and aspect our minds confer on certain objects and aspects of life."

"Although the dream is a very strange phenomenon and an inexplicable mystery, far more inexplicable is the mystery and aspect our minds confer on certain objects and aspects of life."

Giorgio de Chirico, Greek Artist

Life, Dream, Inexplicable, Mystery

43

"The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again."

"The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again."

Edward Koch, American Politician

Life, Corruption, Law

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"One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God."

"One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God."

Meister Eckhart, German Philosopher

Life, God, Books

43

"I try not to be but I'm super-neurotic about diet. I'm neurotic about trying not to be neurotic! I'm like every other girl. I have to try really hard my whole life to try to be fit. And I'm super-vain. And I want to wear cute clothes."

"I try not to be but I'm super-neurotic about diet. I'm neurotic about trying not to be neurotic! I'm like every other girl. I have to try really hard my whole life to try to be fit. And I'm super-vain. And I want to wear cute clothes."

Gwen Stefani, American Musician

Life, Diet, Clothes, Cute

43

"A lot of people believe that if everybody just did what they were told - obeyed - everything would be fine. But that's not what life is all about. That's not real. It's never going to happen."

"A lot of people believe that if everybody just did what they were told - obeyed - everything would be fine. But that's not what life is all about. That's not real. It's never going to happen."

Matt Groening, American Cartoonist

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"I try to stay focused on my life and do try not to be brought into the Hollywood fantasy."

"I try to stay focused on my life and do try not to be brought into the Hollywood fantasy."

Jennifer Connelly, American Actress

Life, Fantasy, Hollywood

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"To do that I try and keep myself in pretty good shape physically and I try to lead my life in such a way that I'll be able to be as strong at the end of the movie as I am in the beginning."

"To do that I try and keep myself in pretty good shape physically and I try to lead my life in such a way that I'll be able to be as strong at the end of the movie as I am in the beginning."

John Frankenheimer, American Director

Life, Beginning, End, Pretty

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"Music is supposed to wash away the dust of everyday life."

"Music is supposed to wash away the dust of everyday life."

Art Blakey, American Musician

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"I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life."

"I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life."

Richard Branson, British Businessman

Life, Love, Freedom

43

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

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

Danny Boyle, English Director

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"I think life is sort of like a competition, whether it's in sports, or it's achieving in school, or it's achieving good relationships with people. And competition is a little bit of what it's all about."

"I think life is sort of like a competition, whether it's in sports, or it's achieving in school, or it's achieving good relationships with people. And competition is a little bit of what it's all about."

Sanford I. Weill, American Businessman

Life, Sports, People, Competition

43

"I am not getting any younger and am taking a new approach to life."

"I am not getting any younger and am taking a new approach to life."

Alfre Woodard, American Actress

43

"The life of the village became more and more affected by strikes and lock-outs."

"The life of the village became more and more affected by strikes and lock-outs."

John Grierson, British Director

43

"Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there."

"Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there."

Henry James, American Writer

43

"I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone."

"I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone."

Tallulah Bankhead, American Actress

Life, Bed, Hate

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"Donald and I still really wanted to be together, but I was fighting to keep what we had privately, and once the world gets involved in your life, little by little it breaks it down until you forget what it was in the first place."

"Donald and I still really wanted to be together, but I was fighting to keep what we had privately, and once the world gets involved in your life, little by little it breaks it down until you forget what it was in the first place."

Marla Maples, American Actress

Life, Fighting, First, Forget

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"Are people angry with me? Sure, anything you do in your life, people are going to be angry at you."

"Are people angry with me? Sure, anything you do in your life, people are going to be angry at you."

Anne Heche, American Actress

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"I was told all my life I was part Cherokee. Then it was Crow. The latest is Blackfoot."

"I was told all my life I was part Cherokee. Then it was Crow. The latest is Blackfoot."

Kathie Lee Gifford, American Entertainer

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"All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things."

"All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things."

Robert Southey, English Poet

Life, Lie, Deception, Falsehood

43

"Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life."

"Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life."

Mariah Carey, American Musician

Life, Music, Grace, Singing

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"I would dare say that most anyone in public life, if they stay in public long enough, is not treated fairly."

"I would dare say that most anyone in public life, if they stay in public long enough, is not treated fairly."

Vince McMahon, American Entertainer

43

"That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way."

"That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way."

Doris Lessing, English Writer

43

"It has been shown that, in contrast to everything which classical national economy has hitherto taught, not the producer but the consumer is the ruling factor in economic life."

"It has been shown that, in contrast to everything which classical national economy has hitherto taught, not the producer but the consumer is the ruling factor in economic life."

Hjalmar Schacht, German Economist

Life, Contrast, Economy

43

"I'm back to doing everything I used to, loving life as ever."

"I'm back to doing everything I used to, loving life as ever."

Donna Mills, American Actress

43

"I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there."

"I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there."

Charles Kettering, American Inventor

Life, People, Future, Rest

43

"Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone."

"Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone."

Albert J. Nock, American Philosopher

Life, History, Knowledge, Mathematics

43

"Because I had children relatively late - in my 40s rather than in my 20s - it wasn't anything I ever knew that I would do. It kind of happened to me: I met the right woman and we had children. It was a revelation because it suddenly makes me realize, 'Oh, I get it. Now I know what to do with the rest of my life.'"

"Because I had children relatively late - in my 40s rather than in my 20s - it wasn't anything I ever knew that I would do. It kind of happened to me: I met the right woman and we had children. It was a revelation because it suddenly makes me realize, 'Oh, I get it. Now I know what to do with the rest of my life.'"

Mark Strong, English Actor

Life, Children, Now, Rest

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"The reason progress is slow is that we always expect other men to be the heroes and to live the heroic lives. But we all have hero stuff in us. In our sphere of life we can always live more heroically and triumphantly and grow in heroic stature."

"The reason progress is slow is that we always expect other men to be the heroes and to live the heroic lives. But we all have hero stuff in us. In our sphere of life we can always live more heroically and triumphantly and grow in heroic stature."

Wilferd A. Peterson, American Author

Life, Men, Progress, Heroes

43

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

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

Gaston Bachelard, French Philosopher

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"Our aims are absolutely clear: They are a high living standard in the country and a secure, free and comfortable life."

"Our aims are absolutely clear: They are a high living standard in the country and a secure, free and comfortable life."

Vladimir Putin, Russian Statesman

Life, Country, Living

43

"I enjoy the work, I enjoy every minute of my professional life."

"I enjoy the work, I enjoy every minute of my professional life."

Jose Mourinho, Portuguese Coach

43

"This industry has been really good to me. It's been a great life. I'm not through yet. I'm ready when you are, Mr. DeMille."

"This industry has been really good to me. It's been a great life. I'm not through yet. I'm ready when you are, Mr. DeMille."

Anthony Hopkins, Welsh Actor

43

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

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

Isaac Bashevis Singer, American Novelist

Life, Surprises

43

"But the point of using the number was to show that sex was a great part of my life as basketball was a great part of my life. That's the reason why I was single."

"But the point of using the number was to show that sex was a great part of my life as basketball was a great part of my life. That's the reason why I was single."

Wilt Chamberlain, American Athlete

Life, Sex, Basketball, Reason

43

"A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism."

"A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism."

Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian Author

Life, Tradition

43

"I was born and trained to communicate music, just as the sons were born and trained to hunt, and I was lucky to have grown up in Hungary, a country that lives and breathes music-that has a passionate belief in the power of music as a celebration of life."

"I was born and trained to communicate music, just as the sons were born and trained to hunt, and I was lucky to have grown up in Hungary, a country that lives and breathes music-that has a passionate belief in the power of music as a celebration of life."

Georg Solti, Hungarian Musician

Life, Music, Power, Belief

43

"I volunteered for this life, wanted it and am not going to bitch about it now that I've got it."

"I volunteered for this life, wanted it and am not going to bitch about it now that I've got it."

Bernard Cornwell, British Novelist

43

"Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?"

"Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?"

James M. Barrie, British Playwright

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