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Life Quotes
"For generations, America has served as a beacon of hope and freedom for those outside her borders, and as a land of limitless opportunity for those risking everything to seek a better life. Their talents and contributions have continued to enrich our country."
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"I've been very lucky in my long life. On three continents, in diverse cultures, through happy moments, not-so-happy moments, and moments as marvelous as this one, I've had the privilege of working with the cinema's greatest masters."
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"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."
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"Design is a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life."
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"You need a balance in life between dealing with what's going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over."
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"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."
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"But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!"
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"If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one."
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"There were loads of plays which were very popular before and after the war, where everybody wore a dinner jacket in the third act and it was in a house that you wished you'd owned with people that you wish you knew. It was life seen through a very privileged way."
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"Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers."
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"The only luck I had in my life was when I married you. I knew it wouldn't last because I was too happy. I knew they would not let me be happy."
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"If Gone With the Wind has a theme it is that of survival. What makes some people come through catastrophes and others, apparently just as able, strong, and brave, go under? It happens in every upheaval. Some people survive; others don't. What qualities are in those who fight their way through triumphantly that are lacking in those that go under? I only know that survivors used to call that quality 'gumption.' So I wrote about people who had gumption and people who didn't."
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"Be very strong... be very methodical in your life if you want to be a champion."
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"Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life."
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"It was the worst moment of my life. The producer came up and talked me back into going on stage."
Life,
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"I think maybe when you live with someone who is really very ill for a long time, it somehow gives you more of a greedy appetite for life and maybe, yes, you are less measured in your behaviour than you would otherwise be."
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"It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life."
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"Life is to be enjoyed, not endured."
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"It would be very easy for us to do a collection that everybody would like and not criticize. But criticism is a part of life. You have to take it."
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"Back 20 years ago, I was recording with Bruce Springsteen, and his producer called me and said I had to be in the studio the next day to finish the sessions, and I couldn't. I had to be in court, in California. All this took like 10 years out of my life."
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"I'm trying to assemble materials for a different mode of life."
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"It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life."
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"Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex."
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"I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult."
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"I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life."
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"A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men."
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"Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets."
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"I know in my life there's stuff that will come back because I haven't dealt with it, and it's the same with everybody."
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"We all have sadness in our life and things that we can draw upon."
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"We were as Hansel and Gretel and we ventured out into the black forest of the world."
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"I found that when I did something for the sake of heaven, heaven happened. These things changed my life. I owe them to my encounter with Christianity."
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"We usually say of ancient persons, that they have already one foot in the grave, and the rest of their life is nothing else but the bringing of these feet together."
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