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Life Quotes


"The fate of the world depends on the triumph of the good people!"


"I was not willing to give up because I was born to like taking risks and that is my way of life."
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"Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?"


"I've studied various schools of thought... I acknowledge that some Muslims consider music prohibited, but I've found a lot of evidence from the life of the Prophet to show that he allowed certainly, but even encouraged, music at certain times."


"Much of my reading time over the last decade and a half has been spent reading aloud to my children. Those children's bedtime rituals of supper, bath, stories, and sleep have been a staple of my life and some of the best, most special times I can remember."


"I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision."



"Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies."


"Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution."


"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."


"The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact."


"It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected."


"I wrote songs all my life, where anyone wanted to hear them or not."


"I feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people."


"My part had three lines. I said, 'You look wonderful, sir,' three times. All my friends said, 'Do not take that role - and do not understudy. You'll regret it the rest of your life.' I did both of those things, and I've never regretted it once."


"I am really driven, but my drive doesn't effect the conversations I have in my head about life, and my worries and fears and insecurities."


"It is the gift of seeing the life around them clearly and vividly, as something that is exciting in its own right. It is an innate gift, varying in intensity with the individual's temperament and environment."


"I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important."


"I'd wanted to be an actress my whole life, that was my goal, that was all I cared about."


"In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed."


"Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?"


"We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life."
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