Different Life Quotes

• The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

  Christopher McCandless

  Life, Motivational, Travel

  Letter to Russell Fritz, April 1992.

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• As I began to love myself I stopped craving for a different life, and I could see that everything that surrounded me was inviting me to grow. Today I call it 'maturity'.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Maturity, Different, Today

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• Writing is a way of living other lives. It is a way of expanding your life. It's not actually living a different life, it just means that you're hungry for life. There are so many things you want to do.

  Etgar Keret

  Writing, Mean, Way

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• Occasionally, on screen, Barbara [Stanwyck] had a wary, watchful quality about her that I've noticed in other people who had bad childhoods; they tend to keep an eye on life because they don't think it can be trusted. After her mother was killed by a streetcar, she had been raised in Brooklyn by her sisters, and from things she said, I believe she had been abused as a child. She had lived an entirely different life than mine, that's for sure, which is one reason I found her so fascinating. I think her early life was one reason she had such authenticity as an actress, and as a person.

  Robert Wagner

  Mother, Children, Believe

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• If I hadn’t done Bond, I wouldn’t have been in America doing my series, and I would have had a different life.

  Maryam d'Abo

  America, Different, Done

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• There was a time in my acting career, where I was trying to figure out if acting was the thing to do. You know? I was always on this journey of trying to learn more about humanity and people - using the characters and situations as guideposts. I could switch up and do another job as long as I'm continuing that same search and that same journey of revealing my connection to humanity and the universe. And directing gives me the opportunity to explore ALL these different lives and their connection to their environments and the people. And I get to connect to the wires of the universe.

  Forest Whitaker

  Jobs, Character, Opportunity

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• There are lots of positives to come out of playing all sports, not just football. Team games can offer you different life skills than an individual sport can. Football improves your time management - you have to be places on time and disciplined in terms of training.

  Hope Powell

  Sports, Football, Team

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I think no matter what kind of life you have, whether it looks one way to people or another way, you always have moments when you imagine a different life.

  Kristen Wiig

  Thinking, People, Different

  "Ben Stiller and Kristen Wiig Talk THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY, Filming in Iceland, Balancing Fantasy and Reality, Comparisons to the Original, and More". Press conference, collider.com. April 21, 2013.

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• I don't really believe in regret. I think you can always learn from the past, but I wouldn't want a different life.

  Molly Ringwald

  Regret, Believe, Past

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• I saw how different life was on different sides of the same city. I saw the fear in the eyes of people who were not free. I saw the gratitude of people toward the United States for all that we had done. I felt goosebumps as I got off a military train and heard the Army band strike up 'Stars and Stripes Forever.'

  John F. Kerry

  Gratitude, Stars, Military

  "Kerry: We are here to make America stronger", www.cnn.com. July 30, 2004.

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• Fare forward, travellers! not escaping from the past
  Into different lives, or into any future;
  You are not the same people who left that station
  Or who will arrive at any terminus,
  While the narrowing rails slide together behind you.

  T. S. Eliot

  Time, Past, Escaping

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.170, Faber & Faber

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• I had a lot of things I wanted to do... I want to be a teacher...I also want to be an astronaut...and also make my own cake shop...I want to go to the sweets bakery and say "I want one of everything", ohhhh I wish I could live life five times over...Then I'd be born in five different places, and I'd stuff myself with different food from around the world...I'd live five different lives with five different occupations...and then, for those five times...I'd fall in love with the same person.

  Tite Kubo

  Teacher, Sweet, Falling In Love

  "Bleach". Manga by Tite Kubo, 2001 - 2016.

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• News channels have always had interview shows, but we need different kinds of interviews with different kinds of interviewers, interviewers who bring different life experiences to the table.

  George Stroumboulopoulos

  Different, Needs, News

  "Canadian host George Stroumboulopoulos brings talk show to CNN". Interview with Piya Sinha-Roy, uk.reuters.com. June 10, 2013.

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• When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.

  Mark Twain

  Numbers, People, Different

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 13, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• The intricate and different life cycles of both male and female root-heads, and the great behavioral sophistication shown by the female in reconfiguring a host crab as a support system, all underscore the myopia of our conventional wisdom in regarding rhizocephalans as degenerate parasites because the adult anatomy of internal roots and external sac seem so simple.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Simple, Roots, Support Systems

  Stephen Jay Gould (2011). “Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms”, p.371, Harvard University Press

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• I feel like I've lived about three or four different lives.

  Jennifer Hudson

  Three, Four, Different

  "Jennifer Hudson calls murders of her family 'surreal'" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. June 29, 2010.

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• I live a very different life now, with incredible privileges, but looking back I realise that growing up in Russia gave me tools that other people don't necessarily have - such as the will to push that bit further, to make things happen, to succeed.

  Natalia Vodianova

  Growing Up, Russia, People

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• A lot of women, when they're young, feel they have very good friends, and find later on that friendship is complicated. It's easy to be friends when everyone's 18. It gets harder the older you get, as you make different life choices, as people say in America. A lot of women's friendships begin to founder.

  Zadie Smith

  Good Friend, America, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• What we really need to be open to is diversity itself, especially in a business environment. What you want is a plethora of ideas; you want people with different life experience, people with different work experience, people from different cultures to bring something to the table that you otherwise based on your own coming up, you yourself wouldn't have thought of.

  Corey Smith

  Ideas, People, Diversity

  Source: respect-mag.com

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• I have had the occasion to meet child actors from the '60s and '70s at various functions, and everyone's gone on to various different lives - they're real-estate agents or surfers.

  Mike Lookinland

  Children, Real, Different

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• When I train, I love to take time off and fly to the Natural History Museum or an exhibition. I just love that. When you know your past, it will help you with your future… That’s why most of my friends are not fighters. Most of my friends are nerds like me. That’s why I have a hard time finding a girlfriend. I need someone to talk science with. I’m married to my work right now. But you never know. One day I could wake up and just do something different. Life is so unpredictable.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Girlfriend, Hard Times, Past

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• I really like playing other people. There is no other feeling like it, to have a different voice come out of you and to have a different life for a couple of hours. I like being myself. But maybe it's like you ride a bike every day and someone says, 'For two hours tonight do you want to ride this Harley?' You'd be like, 'OK yeah!

  Cristin Milioti

  Couple, Two, Voice

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• One day you wake up and you decide you want to be different. You want a different life. You are tired of your old life. This is the truth. You will a change.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Tired, Buddhism

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• I've had a lot of different lives. I was adopted, I grew up in Nebraska, and then I went to Northwestern... Then I had this really extraordinary, different life than my parents.

  Dan Chaon

  Parent, Different, Nebraska

  "Dan Chaon: Characters find sense of self" by Michelle Broder Van Dyke, www.sfgate.com. October 8, 2009.

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• No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.

  Kate Walsh

  Jobs, People, Parent

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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