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Life Quotes



"But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder."


"You don't say to a university professor who is immersed in a particular subject that they should get a life. They are encouraged to enjoy their subject and to pass it on."


"Country Music is great music because it really comes from real life experiences. It is such a great haven for reality."


"The government's position was that we have frigates that have got a useful life until 2006. There is no necessity for us to make final decisions until 2002."


"Well, I think that people are smart enough to understand the difference between a movie and real life."


"Some people in LA are addicted. They have to be here. My personal life is stronger than my professional life, in terms of priorities."


"Stem cell research must be carried out in an ethical manner in a way that respects the sanctity of human life."


"Even a blind man could see she is beautiful."


"I would alter nothing of the journey made for it is in this road travelled that the sweetest of lessons are learnt."


"My kids are young and my life with them is really stimulating and really full and significant."



"The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street."
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"I've been in a hurry all my life. I've been in a hurry to succeed, and in a hurry to prove myself."


"Life was like that- there would always be something scratching at the door. And whatever was scratching would just scratch and scratch until you opened the door."


"Michelle Obama was asked when life begins. According to her it's when she and Barack take over the White House."
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"She'd never been one to think in terms of years, anyway. A person was what they were, and many a man at forty was sixty in his ways and many another was twenty and would never grow past it."


"Onstage I do all the stuff I'd never do in real life, like lashing out at people who make me mad or freaking out in a long bank lineup. Performing allows me to fulfill all the sicko fantasies I've ever had."


"A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it."


"Don't ignore the past, but deal with it, on your own pace. Once you deal with it, you are free of it; and you are free to embrace your life and be a happy loving person because if you don't, the past will come back to haunt and keep coming back to haunt you."



"When contrasted with the much longer time that life has been present, the course of Christianity thus far is but a brief moment."


"For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying."



"Well I travelled quite a lot in the east, and one of the things that impressed me greatly was the buddhist notion of the continuity of things, the wheel of life which is what we're talking about, the ever turning wheel."



"We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life."


"Because sometimes there are problems bigger than this week's end of the world and sometimes you just have to find the extraordinary in your ordinary life."


"It makes me sad when I find sisters who aren't joyful. They might smile, but with just a smile they could be flight attendants!"


"I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either."


"When we're young, everyone over the age of thirty looks middle-aged, everyone over fifty antique. And time, as it goes by, confirms that we weren't that wrong. Those little age differentials, so crucial and so gross when we are young erode. We end up all belonging to the same category, that of the non-young. I've never much minded this myself."


"I can't help but think that if she was going to kill herself, she might as well have done it earlier. Perhaps when I was a toddler. Or better yet, an infant. It certainly would have made my life easier. I asked my uncle Hugh (who is not really my uncle, but he is married to the stepsister of my current mother's brother's wife and he lives quite closeand he's a vicar) if I would be going to hell for such a thought. He said no, that frankly, it made a lot of sense to him. I do think I prefer his parish to my own."


"Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late in life."


"Madam Speaker, I have spent more than half my life as a member of the Resources Committee. In that time I have supported numerous wilderness designations. In fact, I cannot recall ever opposing a wilderness bill."


"The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism."
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