Life Is Quotes - Page 14

• Life is about luck and it's about circumstances and socioeconomic conditions and all the rest of it, but you know, you can also make choices. It's about spirit and generosity and all the other things, too.

  Mike Leigh

  Generosity, Choices, Luck

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. November 23, 2008.

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• So at some point you realize that your life is not just going to start one day in the future, that you're living it.

  Brit Marling

  One Day, Realizing

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• Life is beautiful because it doesn't last.

  Brit Marling

  Beautiful, Life Is Beautiful, Lasts

  "Brit Marling: The breakout indie star who’s taking us to “Another Earth” and back again". IFC Interview, www.ifc.com. July 20, 2011.

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• Yeah, I think everybody has the crises of questioning themselves at some point or other in their lives. Is this where I should live? The job I should have? The girl I should be dating? Is this the friend I should have?

  Chris Messina

  Girl, Jobs, Thinking

  "Chris Messina: Hollywood's Busiest Man and His Existential Questions". Hollywood Reporter Interview, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 15, 2013.

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• It's the way life is, I suppose. Whatever happens, you deal with it.

  Christian Marclay

  Way, Deals, Whatever Happens

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• Life is a grand party.

  Ezra Miller

  Party

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• Once I started the first school, I realized this is what my life is meant to be, is to promote education and help kids go to school and that's very clear.

  Greg Mortenson

  School, Kids, Firsts

  "Greg Mortenson: 'Ordinary Oprah'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. March 12, 2009.

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• I want to tell the story. Mostly, when you see rock movies, it has to be this over-the-top thing. I want to give people a Bret Michaels movie where they see that my life is a comedy of errors. I also want to show my fans how to get through the kind of troubles that would leave most people flat on the floor.

  Bret Michaels

  Errors, Rocks, People

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• Some people in LA are addicted. They have to be here. My personal life is stronger than my professional life, in terms of priorities.

  Debi Mazar

  People, Priorities, Stronger

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• Life is simply the reification of the process of living.

  Ernst Mayr

  Society, Process

  "Plants: Diversity and Evolution". Book by Bill Eddie, p. 400, 2006.

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• If you make the bad guy enticing and dangerous, that's where the excitement of playing the role really kicks in. I don't get to do that in my normal day-to-day life. Life is too taxing to go to those dark places.

  Tony Vincent

  Dark, Guy, Roles

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• Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why we're here: We're here to suffer. I believe in a higher power that compassionately allows suffering for us as a race, to grow and mature.

  Rainn Wilson

  Believe, Race, Suffering

  "Rainn Wilson: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. March 24, 2011.

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• I'm 47, You learn life is short and it's not worth doing something if you don't enjoy it.

  Trisha Yearwood

  Life Is Short, Enjoy, Ifs

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• It is said that life is too short, and that’s quite true, unless you are lonely. Loneliness can bring time to its knees; an absolute and utter standstill.

  Jonathan Hull

  Lonely, Loneliness, Life Is Too Short

  Jonathan Hull (2001). “Losing Julia”, Island Books

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• The only certainty is that we never know what tomorrow holds. We live for today, life is short, so let's enjoy it together while we can.

  Jinxx

  Life Is Short, Today Life, Bvb

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• The greatest artists, saints, philosophers, and, until quite recent times, scientists... have all assumed that the New Testament promise of eternal life is valid.... I'd rather be wrong with Dante and Shakespeare and Milton, with Augustine of Hippo and Francis of Assisi, with Dr. Johnson, Blake, and Dostoevsky than right with Voltaire, Rousseau, the Huxleys, Herbert Spencer, H. G. Wells, and Bernard Shaw.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Artist, Promise, Drs

  Quoted in Vintage Muggeridge, ed. Geoffrey Barlow (1985)

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• The thing that I'm most proud of in my life is that if a stranger came up to me and said, 'I can't stop drinking. I can't stop drinking. Can you help me?' I can say, 'Yes, I can help you.'

  Matthew Perry

  Drinking, Yes I Can, Proud

  "Matthew Perry Comes Clean", abcnews.go.com.

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• The most important man in my life is and always will be Alain Delon. He is always there when I need a shoulder to cry on… even today Alain is the only man I can count on. He would always help me. Only Alain shaped me as a woman. Even though he hurt me a lot when he left me I also matured because of it.

  Romy Schneider

  Hurt, Men, Important

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• The great thing about my life is that everything I've done is a result of what I was when I was 12 or 13.

  Ray Bradbury

  Done, Results, Great Things

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• Forty years after the greatest scandal of the American presidency, Elizabeth Drew's account in Washington Journal remains fresh and riveting, instructive and evocative. Her afterword on Nixon's post-Watergate life is equally compelling.

  Tom Brokaw

  Years, Scandal, Forty

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• My life is a series of dumb choices

  Geoff Ramsey

  Choices, Dumb, Series

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• I may think I have inalienable rights to be alive and happy but I don't - life is a blessing.

  Terrence McNally

  Blessing, Thinking, Rights

  "Terrence McNally: Looking at AIDS Survivors". Interview with Sharon Bernstein, articles.latimes.com. March 4, 1990.

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• There is an old song which asserts 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic fallacy which brought on the decadence and collapse of the democracies of the twentieth century; those noble experiments failed because the people had been led to believe that they could simply vote for whatever they wanted...and get it without toil, without sweat, without tears. Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Song, Pain, Believe

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.76, Penguin

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• I would never live in anything I design. Life and art are different. My life is very precious to me - my art is precious to me. I love designing things for other people, but I don't like designing things for myself.

  Peter Eisenman

  Art, People, Design

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• Life is too short to not have oysters and champagne sometimes

  Christie Brinkley

  Life Is Too Short, Oysters, Sometimes

  "Christie Brinkley on Skin Care and the Secret to Staying Young". Interview with Megan Cagn, www.elle.com. March 5, 2015.

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