More To Life Quotes - Page 3

• They taught me that all life forms are important to each other in our common quest for happiness and survival. That there is more to life than just yourself, your own family, or your own kind.

  Lawrence Anthony

  Survival, Important, Quests

  Anthony Lawrence, Lawrence Anthony, Graham Spence (2009). “The Elephant Whisperer: Learning About Life, Loyalty and Freedom From a Remarkable Herd of Elephants”, p.4, Pan Macmillan

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• What I've learnt is when you walk into a family argument and people tell you it's about principle don't get involved. There is more to life than principles.

  Maurice Glasman, Baron Glasman

  People, Principles, Argument

  "'Ed Miliband Has an Angry, Insurgent Side’". Interview with Gary Gibbon, www.channel4.com. September 26, 2011.

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• For me, now, working and children is it. Theres nothing more to life.

  Aidan Gillen

  Children

  "Aidan Gillen: 'I'm less bothered about playing disgusting or flawed people'". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. July 13, 2009.

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• The drive of the story is sort of hinted at the beginning, is Joy and Sadness and those two characters. Especially Joy starting to understand that there's more to life than being happy. And so that's based on real life observations and things that we've learned as adults.

  Pete Docter

  Real, Character, Sadness

  "Inside Out and Lava: Sneak Peek". Interview with Tara Salinas, www.trippinwithtara.com. March 12, 2015.

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• The Greek idea of fate is moira, which means "portion." Fate rules a portion of your life. But there is more to life than just fate. There is also genetics, environment, economics, and so on. So it's not all written in the book before you get here, such that you don't have to do anything. That's fatalism.

  James Hillman

  Book, Mean, Fate

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Being famous is not all that one should want in life...there is much more to life than name and fame.

  Amit Abraham

  Names, Want, Fame

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• Look, there's nothing wrong with people being happy, but there's more to life than turning on and screwing to Ravel's Bolero.

  Blake Edwards

  Life, Happiness, Sex

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• Competitive skills are desperately needed by poor children in America, and realistic recognition of the economic roles that they may someday have an opportunity to fill is obviously important, too. But there is more to life, and there ought to be much more to childhood, than readiness for economic functions.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Children, Opportunity, Skills

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• There is more to life than increasing its speed. Gandhi gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it? Richard Bach Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Beautiful, Music Love, Speed

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• What a denial of our humanity that at the centers of power, where decisions are made, there is no room for nurturing, for love, and children. There is more to life than the 'inhuman' work place. It is terrible that many men do not know that: it is a tragedy if women follow them.

  Dora Russell

  Children, Business, Work

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• Competition is healthy ... but there is more to life than winning or we should nearly all be losers

  Charles Handy

  Winning, Competition, Healthy

  Charles Handy (2011). “The Empty Raincoat: Making Sense of the Future”, p.11, Random House

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• There is more to life than material well-being. Who would claim that the wholly wage-dependent family enjoys the dignity, the security, the range of choice and the autonomy (not to mention the leisure and freedom) of the family even partially supported by capital ownership?

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, Choices, Politics

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• I haven't written a word of fiction since 2009. I have no desire to write fiction. I did what I did and it's done. There's more to life than writing and publishing fiction. There is another way entirely, amazed as I am to discover it at this late date.

  Philip Roth

  Writing, Desire, Fiction

  "'The Novelist's Obsession Is With Language': Philip Roth on Writing, the Future of Language and the Ghost Writer". Interview with Cynthia Haven, news.stanford.edu. February 03, 2014.

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• I believe the term you’re searching for is smoking jacket. I find, now that I have whole days of sunshine ahead of me, I’ve discovered there is more to life than formal haberdashery.

  Kami Garcia

  Believe, Sunshine, Smoking

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• There's more to life than making shallow, fairly obvious observations.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Shallow, Obvious, Observation

  "Seinfeld". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1989 - 1998.

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• I won't change and my perspective won't change. I want to continue my life the way I live it, and I'm not going to let anything stop me from doing that. It isn't all about acting. There's a lot more to life than Hollywood.

  Elijah

  Perspective, Acting, Hollywood

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• I like pulling on a baggy bee suit, forgetting myself and getting as close to the bees' lives as they will let me, remembering in the process that there is more to life than the merely human.

  Sue Hubbell

  Suits, Bees, Remember

  Sue Hubbell (2017). “A Book of Bees”, p.125, Open Road Media

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• I think everybody has had the experience at some point when they feel that there's more to life than just matter. But I think it's very important to keep that under control and not to hand it over to be exploited by priests and shamans and rabbis and other riffraff.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Thinking, Hands, Important

  Source: www.wanliss.com

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• Usually when I'm making a movie, what I have in mind first, for the visuals, is how we can stage the scenes to bring them more to life in the most interesting way, and then how we can make a world for the story that the audience hasn't quite been in before.

  Wes Anderson

  Interesting, Mind, Stories

  "Wes Anderson Talks MOONRISE KINGDOM, His Next Film, Doing Another Stop-Motion Movie and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 5, 2012.

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• There is much more to life than what gets measured in accounts. Even economists know that.

  Tim Harford

  Economist, Accounts, Knows

  Tim Harford (2012). “The Undercover Economist”, p.113, Oxford University Press, USA

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• There's more to life than being an actor in a Hollywood movie. I'm not going to adapt my life after that existence, where a lot of people do. And they get the publicist, and they get all that stuff, and it becomes them. I think it's a stupid way to live your life. A really dumb way to live your life.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Stupid, Thinking, People

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

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• Gotta start teaching the children that they can be just what they want to be, there's much more to life than poverty.

  Tupac Shakur

  Education, Children, Teaching

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• There's more to life than listening to rock music.

  Black Francis

  Rocks, Listening, Rock Music

  "Pixies Interview". Interview with Chris Carle, www.ign.com. July 6, 2009.

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• There is a whole lot more to life than winning.

  Jojo Moyes

  Winning, Whole

  Jojo Moyes (2012). “The Girl You Left Behind”, p.336, Penguin UK

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• You say to me that there is more to life than hurling but if you want to carry on like a fella who is not an inter-county hurler, well then there will be more to life than hurling. Lots more. But there won't be hurling. That's the reality of it.

  Brian Cody

  Reality, Want, Hurling

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