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Life Quotes


"I think mine is the fullest and most plausible account of what went on in Marie Antoinette's life."
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"When you're in love it's the most glorious two and a half days of your life."



"I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers."


"Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life."


"The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life."



"What was most important to me at the Olympics was going out there and performing my best. When I messed up the first jump combination, which was my big move, it hit me that I messed up the program of my life."


"And I loved Frank Lloyd Wright. I think he was the greatest man I have ever met in my life."


"I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life."


"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."


"You don't have to fight for your life anymore. You're starting a new one."



"I don't think you should do things in your personal life differently because you're a role model."
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"You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens."


"Until you know that life is interesting - and find it so - you haven't found your soul."


"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."


"Design is a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life."


"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!"


"I mean, the part you don't like, I mean, that's the only part. That's the part no one likes, and that is the criticisms, and the unfair criticisms, I might add, of my husband. But that's also just a fact of life in politics."


"It's always been really important for me to try to maintain a balanced life, professional and personal, and this was absolutely something that my husband and I had hoped for."


"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."


"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."


"I'm in this for the long haul. I've been making music my whole life."


"It was the worst moment of my life. The producer came up and talked me back into going on stage."
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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."


"Life is to be enjoyed, not endured."


"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."



"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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