Whole Life Quotes - Page 4

• My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.

  Steve Wozniak

  Life, Design, Computer

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• I’d spent my whole life waiting to awake on an ordinary morning in the town that was destined to be my home, in the arms of the woman I was destined to love, knowing the people and doing the work that would make up the changing but essentially invariable landscape of my particular destiny.

  Michael Chabon

  Morning, Home, Destiny

  Michael Chabon (2011). “Wonder Boys”, p.55, Open Road Media

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• I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.

  Annie Dillard

  Inspiring, Bells, Moments

  Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.122, Canongate Books

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• You said 'God is cruel' the way a person who's lived his whole life on Tahiti might say 'Snow is cold'. You knew, but you didn't understand." He stepped close to David and put his palms on the boy's cold cheeks. "Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel?

  Stephen King

  Boys, Snow, Tahiti

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• He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

  Douglas Adams

  Life, Inspiring, Dream

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.18, Pan Macmillan

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• I want my whole life to be a great work of art, not just my art. And that means paying attention to my entire life and trying to make sure my whole life is balanced.

  Jewel

  Art, Mean, Trying

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• I was turning 20 during my first record. Those decade birthdays always kind of cause me, it seems, to reflect, look back, and then look forward. I just was closing this period of my life where I was living in a car and scrambling my whole life to then signing a six-record deal with Atlantic.

  Jewel

  Car, Looks, Records

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• I've never had a teammate competing with me my whole life.

  Shawn Johnson

  Teammate, Competing, Whole

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• Of course, when you're training your whole life to get to the Olympics, you train for gold.

  Shawn Johnson

  Training, Gold, Olympics

  Shawn Johnson (2012). “Winning Balance: What I’ve Learned So Far about Love, Faith, and Living Your Dreams”, p.115, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.

  James Joyce

  Reading, Demand, Should

  Quoted in F. L. Lucas, The Decline and Fall of the Romantic Ideal (1936)

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• One thing I've never said in my whole life is, 'Let's have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.'

  Alan King

  Dinner, Life Is, Restaurants

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• I had to learn to forgive. I couldn't sleep at night. I got ulcers. I had to let go, to let God deal with it. No one wants to be mad in their own house. I didn't want to be angry my whole life. It takes so much energy out of you to be mean.

  Rodney King

  Letting Go, Mean, Sleep

  "Rodney King: 'I had to learn to forgive'" by Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. May 1, 2012.

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• We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Animal, Mammals, Born

  "Animal Dreams". p. 118. Book by Barbara Kingsolver, 1990.

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• The person who has inspired me my whole life is my Mom, because she taught me commitment. She sacrificed.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Mom, Sports, Mother

  "Mike Krzyzewski on The American Dream". www.achievement.org.

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• I trust my government. I actually have a trust for my government with my data, and I trust them to protect me. They've protected me - they've made the best efforts to protect me my whole life.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Government, Data, Best Effort

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• I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was lifted when she died, and my life was much easier.

  Anne Lamott

  Mother, Psychics, Helping

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• Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else.

  John Lasseter

  Desire, Action, Animation

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• I worry about my voice 24/7 when I'm on tour. It's like a pitcher and his arm. It's constantly the thing that my whole life revolves around.

  Geddy Lee

  Voice, Worry, Arms

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• I've always been a target. Everyone looks me and says, 'I'm not going to let that Asian kid embarrass me. I'm going to go at him.' That's how it's been my whole life.

  Jeremy Lin

  Kids, Asian, Target

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• I probably have more friends from 'Twilight' than I've ever had in my whole life.

  Kellan Lutz

  Twilight, Whole

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• We're all products of what we want to project to the world. Even people who don't spend any time, or think they don't, on preparing themselves for the world out there - I think that ultimately they have for their whole lives groomed themselves to be a certain way, to present a face to the world.

  Cindy Sherman

  Thinking, People, World

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• Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four.

  Carly Simon

  Years, Done, Four

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• My style icon really for my whole life has been my mother.

  Jessica Simpson

  Mother, Icons, Style

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• I felt alien my whole life but I didn't feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.

  Patti Smith

  People, Aliens, Gender

  "The life and deaths of Patti Smith". Interview with Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2008.

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• My whole life I've played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a machine or a business is just horrible.

  Robert Smith

  Ideas, Machines, Becoming

  "The Cure's Robert Smith: 'I'm uncomfortable with politicised musicians'" by Louis Pattison, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2011.

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