Interesting Life Quotes

• Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

  Erica Jong

  Funny, Being Strong, Spiritual

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Oct 02, 2015

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• Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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  Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Quoted in Francis Carpenter, Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln (1866)

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  Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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  Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Sing like there's nobody listening,
  And live like it's heaven on earth.

  William Watson Purkey

  Inspirational, Life, Dance

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• You have a more interesting life if you wear impressive clothes.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Clothes, Interesting, Impressive

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• Mistakes are the price of an interesting life.

  Sophia Loren

  Mistake, Interesting

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• Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers

  Michael Morpurgo

  People, Interesting, Great Writers

  "Michael Morpurgo's top writing tips" by Michael Morpurgo, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2012.

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• Imagine living in abject poverty and not knowing anything other than that for generations. Or alternatively, imagine being born into a really wealthy family, but there was no real love. Everyone's living these extraordinary, interesting lives whether they know it or not.

  Annie Lennox

  Real, Knowing, Interesting

  "Annie Lennox: Music + Passion + Freedom". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The curse of an interesting life: there are either very good times or very bad times.

  Alethea Kontis

  Interesting, Good Times, Bad Times

  Alethea Kontis (2012). “Enchanted”, p.214, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think real life reflects your movies. In your life, you pick stuff that influences what movie roles you wanna pick. I think if you've got an interesting life, you wanna do interesting movies about interesting things.

  Chris Tucker

  Real, Thinking, Interesting

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

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• Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

  John Robert Seeley

  Life, Beautiful, Interesting

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• The key that unlocks energy is desire. It's also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited.

  Earl Nightingale

  Life, Motivational, Real

  Robert C. Worstell, Earl Nightingale “How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds - Part IV”, Lulu.com

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• I really would like to be involved in things and to understand things, and in some ways you've got to be careful what you wish for because I feel very, very blessed to have such an interesting life and to be able to have little snapshots of lives of people from many different parts of the world.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Blessed, Interesting, People

  "Every day is a holiday for Yo-Yo Ma". Interview with Shanon Cook, www.cnn.com. November 12, 2008.

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• If you did not indulge in fantasies, how else would you know if you were living an interesting life?

  Alethea Kontis

  Indulge In, Interesting, Fantasy

  Alethea Kontis (2012). “Enchanted”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You do not learn how to write novels in a writing program. You learn how by leading an interesting life. Open yourself up to all experience. Let life pour through you the way light pours through leaves.

  Pat Conroy

  Writing, Light, Interesting

  Pat Conroy (2010). “My Losing Season”, p.323, Random House

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• Why not - is a slogan for an interesting life.

  Mason Cooley

  Interesting, Why Not, Slogans

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• I’m not a sociopath or a freak (although I don’t suppose people who are sociopaths or freaks self-identify as such); I just don’t enjoy being with people. People, at least in my experience, rarely say anything interesting to each other. They always talk about their lives and they don’t have very interesting lives. So I get impatient. For some reason I think you should only say something if it’s interesting or absolutely has to be said.

  Peter Cameron

  Thinking, Self, People

  Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.28, Macmillan

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• Let's be clear: all professions look bad in the movies. And there's a good reason for this. Movies don't portray career paths, they conscript interesting lifestyles to serve a plot. So lawyers are all unscrupulous and doctors are all uncaring. Psychiatrists are all crazy, and politicians are all corrupt. All cops are psychopaths, and all businessmen are crooks. Even moviemakers come off badly: directors are megalomaniacs, actors are spoiled brats. Since all occupations are portrayed negatively, why expect scientists to be treated differently?

  Michael Crichton

  Crazy, Careers, Doctors

  Michael Crichton's Speech at the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Anaheim, California, www.abc.net.au. January 25, 1999.

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• Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.

  Anton Chekhov

  Real, Interesting, Secrecy

  "A Chekhov lexicon" by William Boyd, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2004.

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• I've had a very interesting life. There are ways of handling the complexities. I'm willing to take on the responsibilities as a father, as a producer, as an actor; and I enjoy that. I've always been changing and evolving and growing. There's no pinnacle of power where you can sit back and relax.

  Tom Cruise

  Father, Responsibility, Interesting

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• I don't pick my presidents because they were great presidents. I'm not much interested in ranking presidents and who is the best and who is the worst. I am much more inclined to be interested in them if they had an interesting life and if they were a complete person - and by that I mean they also had flaws and failings.

  David McCullough

  Mean, Interesting, President

  Source: belmontvision.com

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• I can relate to someone whose life is falling apart, and they are doing the best to get by, using humor to survive. Backstrom really wears his heart on his sleeve and his life is unraveling... I would much rather hang out with that person than a slick procedural detective who has all the answers... it's human, it's frail, it's interesting.

  Rainn Wilson

  Life, Fall, Heart

  "Rainn Wilson will make you cringe with ‘Backstrom’" by Leora Arnowitz, www.foxnews.com. January 21, 2015.

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• I was brought up to believe you should always live the most interesting life you can.

  Nick McDonell

  Believe, Interesting, Should

  "What I did in my holidays". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2002.

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