Famous Quotes: Life

My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that's a good grounding for a balanced life.
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I am encouraged to see women are being elected in Chile, Argentina, Liberia, Ireland. More is more.
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Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
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It really depends, but, generally speaking, just because of the mechanics of it, voice-over is easier because there is no hair, no makeup, no wardrobe, no fittings, no line memorizing. You don't have to me woken up in Russia at 6 in the morning and go film a scene. It's just easier on the body, the family life to do voice-overs.
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The quality of life is so much higher anyplace you can ski in the morning and surf in the evening - there's something to be said for that.
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Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.
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The automobile engine will come, and then I will consider my life's work complete.
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I think what a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.
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What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
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Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.
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My dad was the biggest influence on my life because he was never boring.
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I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.
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For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.
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Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
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The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.
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It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.
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Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.
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The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.
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And in my own life, in my own small way, I've tried to give back to this country that has given me so much. That's why I left a job at a law firm for a career in public service, working to empower young people to volunteer in their communities. Because I believe that each of us - no matter what our age or background or walk of life - each of us has something to contribute to the life of this nation.
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