Lifelong Quotes - Page 3

• Tattoos are permanent and a lifelong commitment, the same as marriage.

  Chester Bennington

  Tattoo, Commitment, Permanent

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• I may be a lifelong 'downtowner,' but Central Park really is the most amazing and the most beautiful part of New York City.

  Moby

  Beautiful, New York, Cities

  "I lost my heart in... New York". Interview with Tim Wapshott, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2005.

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• When you learn something from people, or from a culture, you accept it as a gift, and it is your lifelong commitment to preserve it and build on it.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Commitment, People, Brotherhood

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• The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth. Then you can enjoy a lifelong love affair that brings you the richest fulfillment from inside out.

  Alan Cohen

  Love, Confidence, Self Worth

  Alan Cohen (2006). “Relax Into Wealth: How to Get More by Doing Less”, p.46, Penguin

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• I have tried to show why I believe that the biologist is the most romantic figure on earth at the present day. At first sight he seems to be just a poor little scrubby underpaid man, groping blindly amid the mazes of the ultra-microscopic, engaging in bitter and lifelong quarrels over the nephridia of flatworms, waking perhaps one morning to find that someone whose name he has never heard has demolished by a few crucial experiments the work which he had hoped would render him immortal.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Morning, Believe, Science

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• Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Cinema, Film, Affair

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• I'm so very happy to be here, ... My lifelong dream is to win, and I was accustomed to winning before I got to Cincinnati. From Bantam League, to middle school, high school and at Auburn, I was always on winning teams. I just want to win again.

  Takeo Spikes

  Dream, Team, School

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• Some years ago, not long after I moved to Los Angeles from New York, I attended a television industry party. When a man asked my profession, I told him that I was a writer. He sipped his drink. "Half-hour or hour?" he inquired. There was a long silence. "Lifelong," I replied.

  Carol Muske-Dukes

  New York, Party, Men

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• After an acquaintance of ten minutes many women will exchange confidences that a man would not reveal to a lifelong friend

  Page Smith

  Men, Minutes, Over Confidence

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• I just felt from personal observation that there is nothing more dislocated or alienated than a lifelong military person trying to cope in civilian life. It's like two completely separate planets.

  Lee Child

  Military, Two, Trying

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• On June 22, 2008, at the age of 71, an American revolutionary died. He was a bona fide genius, an outspoken critich, a literary giant and an unprecedented visionary. For 50 years he entertained, challenged and amazed not only my generation, but also ones before mine and well after. He was sensational, brilliant, iconic and unique - the quintessential individual. He was my lifelong hero. His name was George Carlin.

  Corey Taylor

  Hero, Memorable, Unique

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• I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.

  Isaac Newton

  Aggravation, Accomplishment, Celibacy

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• Are not lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint and uncertain even in the best) of that something which you were born desiring, and which, beneath the flux of other desires and in all the momentary silences between the louder passions, night and day, year by year, from childhood to old age, you are looking for, watching for, listening for? You have never had it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Passion, Night, Years

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• Education must be a lifelong pursuit. The person who doesn't read is not better off than the person who can't.

  Sean Covey

  Pursuit, Persons, Better Off

  Sean Covey (2011). “The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective Teenagers”, p.298, Simon and Schuster

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• The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

  Oscar Wilde

  Passion, Differences, Littles

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 2 (1891)

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• Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  "Gov. Brown Uses State of the State Speech to Push Education Reforms" by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, www.scpr.org. January 24, 2013.

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• I have had a lifelong phobia of snakes.

  Jessica Savitch

  Snakes, Phobia

  Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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• As a lifelong Oregonian, I prefer our forests green, not black.

  Greg Walden

  Black, Green, Forests

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• Being responsible and taking care of your body is truly how you make your pay cheque, how you excel and succeed in your lifelong goals, so for me it's just an everyday lifestyle.

  Hope Solo

  Goal, Everyday, Body

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• Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never ­being satisfied.

  Zadie Smith

  Writing, Sadness, Hands

  "Zadie Smith's rules for writers" by Zadie Smith, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2010.

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• All equestrians, if they last long enough, learn that riding in whatever form is a lifelong sport and art, an endeavor that is both familiar and new every time you take the horse out of his stall or pasture.

  Jane Smiley

  Sports, Art, Horse

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• It's always something that interests me, crafting a really perfect pop gem, but it's not a lifelong obsession. I've kind of moved beyond it. I think I needed to get that out of my system, to exorcise.

  Nicholas Thorburn

  Thinking, Perfect, Kind

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• Getting better from depression demands a lifelong commitment. I've made that commitment for my life's sake and for the sake of those who love me.

  Susan Polis Schutz

  Depression, Uplifting, Commitment

  "Depression and My Lifesavers" by Susan Polis Schutz, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 11, 2010.

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• I was stigmatized by being a bridal designer for a long time. I am amazed I have been able to move beyond it. I had really all but given up trying, but I did it because it was my lifelong dream.

  Vera Wang

  Dream, Fashion, Moving

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• The essence of power is the knowledge that what you do is going to have an effect not just an immediate but perhaps a lifelong effect on the happiness and wellbeing of millions of people and so I think the essence of power is to be conscious of what it can mean for others.

  Bob Hawke

  Leadership, Mean, Thinking

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