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Love Quotes


"Now I also discipline myself to do things I love to do when I don't want to do them."


"I was in the game for love. After all, where else can an old-timer with one leg, who can't hear or see, live like a king while doing the only thing I wanted to do?"


"A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him."


"And it's wrong of you to think that love leaves room for nothing else. It's possible to love something and still condescend to it."


"We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft."



"I love what I do for a living, it's the greatest job in the world, but you have to survive an awful lot of attention that you don't truly deserve and you have to live up to your professional responsibilities and I'm always trying to balance that with what is really important."


"There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure."


"I love to act. I need to act. It's the big itch I need to scratch."


"To observe people in conflict is a necessary part of a child's education. It helps him to understand and accept his own occasional hostilities and to realize that differing opinions need not imply an absence of love."


"I was in love with a beautiful blonde once. She drove me to drink. That's the one thing I'm indebted to her for."
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"We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we've come. And peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run."


"I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance."


"The first Decline I did was out of sheer love and appreciation for the music. In 1977, it was more about bands, because punk was a new form of music. It was groundbreaking and political."


"One is not loved accidentally; one's own power to love produces love - just as being interested makes one interesting. People are concerned with the question of whether they are attractive while they forget that the essence of attractiveness is their own capacity to love. To love a person productively implies to care and to feel responsible for his life, not only for his physical existence but for the growth and development of all his human powers. To love productively is incompatible with being passive, with being an onlooker at the loved person's life; it implies labor and care and the responsibility for his growth."


"Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion."


"And because of the reunion I think we've got more energy and enthusiasm than we've ever had. And it's genuine. I think the fans can detect when you're genuine, when you love what you do, and we love to be there on stage. That's what we thrive on."



"Early in the morning, I fell in love with the girl that later on became my wife. At that time, we were so naive. I wanted to charm her, so I read her Capital by Marx. I thought somehow she would be convinced by the strength of his criticism about capital."


"Love is blind friendship closes its eyes."


"Love is an obsession. It has that quality to it. But there are healthy obsessions, and mine is one of them."


"Love loves unto purity. Love has ever in view the absolute loveliness of that which it beholds. Therefore all that is not beautiful in the beloved, all that comes between and is not of love's kind, must be destroyed. And our God is a consuming fire."


"Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest."



"If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity."


"I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display."


"I wouldn't think a blues album would be that commercially successful, but I don't really care. I'd do it for the love of blues, not for the money. I've got plenty of money."
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