Famous Quotes: Life

The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.
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For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.
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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
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Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity.
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I think there's a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.
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Where I'm at in life, the women have got to come with something else, not just the body, but the mind and spirit. It usually trips them out, but that's the way it's going to be. I'm looking at the big picture.
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Some argue we should get coal, oil and gas out of the ground as quickly as possible, build more pipelines and make as much money as we can selling it here and abroad. Their priorities are the economy and meeting short-term energy needs so we can live the lives to which we've become accustomed.
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Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy.
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Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
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I didn't understand how you could be an actor if you didn't also study philosophy and study political science, astronomy. And also just go out and live life and have experiences.
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I was 16 years old, driving to LA, and sleeping in my car, just trying to make it happen.
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The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.
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Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
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Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
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There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.
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One state retiree, 49 years old, paid, over the course of his entire career, a total of $124,000 towards his retirement pension and health benefits. What will we pay him? $3.3 million in pension payments over his life and nearly $500,000 for health care benefits - a total of $3.8m on a $120,000 investment.
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The Bourbon King was first ambassador of reason and human happiness.
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Music fills the infinite between two souls.
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One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.
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Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change.
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