Whole Life Quotes - Page 37

• Censorship has been my best press agent my whole life.

  John Waters

  Agents, Censorship, Has Beens

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• Some hours weigh against a whole lifetime.

  Herman Wouk

  Time, Hours, Lifetime

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• You convey too great a compliment when you say that I have earned the right to the presidential nomination. No man can establish such an obligation upon any part of the American people. My country owes me no debt. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope. My whole life has taught me what America means. I am indebted to my country beyond any human power to repay.

  Herbert Hoover

  Girl, Country, Mean

  Herbert Hoover (1929). “The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover, 1928”, p.3, Stanford University Press

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• If you lie down in a village square hoping to capture a sea gull, you could stay there your whole life without succeeding. But a hundred miles from shore it's different. Sea gulls have a highly developed instinct for self-preservation on land but at sea they're very cocky.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Lying, Cocky, Squares

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• I take a whole life story and compress it into three minutes.

  Harlan Howard

  Three, Stories, Minutes

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• People ask me often [whether] the Nobel Prize [was] the thing you were aiming for all your life, and I say that would be crazy. Nobody would aim for a Nobel Prize because, if you didn't get it, your whole life would be wasted. What we were aiming at was getting people well, and the satisfaction of that is much greater than any prize you can get.

  Gertrude B. Elion

  Crazy, People, Would Be

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• Deep in my heart how the presence of you shines, in a light to last a whole life through.

  Patti Smith

  Friendship, Heart, Light

  Song: Dream of Life

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• There was a time when my whole life was in chaos, really, and I didn't help myself sort it out. But one day I came to my senses, and I think I was lucky because a lot of people don't.

  Billy Idol

  Thinking, People, One Day

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

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• What people forget is that the most radical thing about Obama is that he was the first black man in history to imagine that he could become president, who was able to make other Americans believe it as well. Other than that, he is a centrist, just like I try to be. He's been bridging divisions his whole life.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Believe, Men, People

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• The idea of passing one's whole life in moral idleness, and having one's hardest work and duty done by another-whether God or man-is most revolting to us, as it is most degrading to human dignity.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Men, Ideas, Done

  H. P. Blavatsky (2016). “The Key to Theosophy”, p.78, BookRix

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• To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Effort, Rewards, Sin

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• I had worked my whole life. Until I became a mother, that's the only way I measured my value.

  Demi Moore

  Mother, Way, Values

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• I spent my whole life trying to play the games males play.

  Elisabeth Shue

  Games, Play, Trying

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• I've got my whole life. There's a lifetime of experience, a lifetime of experiencing the road and the music and different players. It makes me a richer human being. I have a greater source of information to tap into, a wealth of life.

  Rita Coolidge

  Player, Different, Information

  Interview with Donna Kimura, www.jazzreview.com. January 29, 2011.

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• My whole life story is kind of a backhanded compliment.

  Tori Spelling

  Stories, Kind, Compliment

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• Always, through my whole life, I've had a thirst for knowledge.

  Emmitt Smith

  Nfl, Thirst, Thirst For Knowledge

  "Life After Football for Emmitt Smith" by Bob Brown, abcnews.go.com. November 21, 2006.

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• Going through that traumatic time of being heartbroken and then being pregnant turned my whole life upside down and inside out and just knocked the wind out of me. But I got so much out of that.

  Bridget Moynahan

  Heartbroken, Wind, Down And

  "Mama's Boy". Interview with Marshall Heyman, www.harpersbazaar.com. June 4, 2008.

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• I never did any training in journalism or in finance, so I really was in the deep end. I got very good at going to press conferences and nodding. I'd figure it out when I got back to the office. Charts and numbers. I've never been great with facts, ever, my whole life. For a journalist, that's not a very good trait.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Numbers, Office, Training

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• I'd wanted to be an actress my whole life, that was my goal, that was all I cared about.

  Kristin Davis

  Goal, Actresses, Wanted

  "Charlotte's web". Interview with Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2002.

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• We tend to run our whole life trying to avoid all that hurts or displeases us, noticing the objects, people, or situations that we think will give us pain or pleasure, avoiding one and pursuing the other.

  Joko Beck

  Running, Hurt, Pain

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• I'm okay. Nobody's bothering me. Everyone's very kind, and very polite. I don't feel like my whole life changed.

  Berenice Bejo

  Life Changing, Kind, Changed

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• I'm more liberated and happy than I've been my whole life. I'm just happy.

  Lance Bass

  Whole, Liberated

  "Lance Bass of *NSYNC Reveals He's Gay". www.foxnews.com. July 26, 2006.

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• My dad died when I was three so my mom had to raise four kids on her own, and I think there's a part of me that pulls upon having watched my mom do that our whole lives. She had to make it work.

  Leslie Bibb

  Mom, Dad, Kids

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• I think it's going to take my whole life to sort of get people to know what my perspective is.

  Suzy Bogguss

  Thinking, People, Perspective

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• I been doing music my whole life.

  Young Buck

  Whole

  "Outasight And Ameer Bring New Perspectives To Hip-hop". www.mtv.com. December 10, 2009.

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