Whole Life Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• I've been intrigued by politics my whole life. And, yes, I am very close to the Clintons. I was a Hillary person until I was an Obama person. And she was a Hillary person, too, until she was an Obama one, evidently.

  Kevin Spacey

  Clinton, Intrigued, Persons

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• People like us are afraid to leave ball. What else is there to do? When baseball has been your whole life, you can't think about a future without it, so you hang on as long as you can.

  Willie Stargell

  Sports, Baseball, Thinking

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• I think baking cookies is equal to Queen Victoria running an empire. There's no difference in how seriously you take the job, how seriously you approach your whole life.

  Martha Stewart

  Running, Jobs, Queens

  FaceBook post by Martha Stewart from Apr 04, 2016

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• My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.

  Tom Stoppard

  Life, Waiting, Answers

  Tom Stoppard (2011). “Lord Malquist and Mr. Moon: A Novel”, p.40, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Country music is important to me, and I love it, but it's not my whole life.

  George Strait

  Country, Important, Music Is

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• My whole life, my dream has been to be a quarterback.

  Tim Tebow

  Dream, Quarterback, Has Beens

  "Does God Have a Tim Tebow Complex?" by Jason Fagone, www.gq.com. August 10, 2009.

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• Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Law, Perspective, Style

  Letter, The Champion, July 1990

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• And also I think particularly as a female, you're taught to be defensive your whole life. You're taught not to be aggressive.

  Uma Thurman

  Thinking, Female, Taught

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• The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Games, America, Battle

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1873). “American Institutions and Their Influence”, p.432

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• Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings.

  Francois Truffaut

  Misunderstood, Hitchcock, Misunderstanding

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• I lost my sense of trust, honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emotional mess. I've never been so miserable in my whole life. I just wanted to go to bed and never get up.

  Shania Twain

  Honesty, Emotional, Compassion

  "Shania Twain Reveals Heartbreak: Who's the Most Jilted Female Celebrity?". www.foxnews.com. May 04, 2011.

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• Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.

  Shania Twain

  Funny, Life, Reality

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

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• I love the Olympic Games. The Olympics are an event that few can fathom but all can enjoy, and that's why athletes work our whole lives to put on the greatest show on Earth.

  Johnny Weir

  Athlete, Games, Earth

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• Children that have been petted and waited upon, always expect it; and if their expectations are not met, they are disappointed and discouraged. This same disposition will be seen through their whole lives, and they will be helpless, leaning upon others for aid, expecting others to favor them and yield to them.

  Ellen G. White

  Children, Yield, Expectations

  Ellen G. White (1994*). “Spiritual Gifts Vol 3 & 4”, Review and Herald Pub Assoc

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• It's something that I had been pushing down my whole life. The search for meaning, I guess, the whispering of the soul.

  Ricky Williams

  Soul, Whispering, Pushing

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• As an athlete, you figure you work your whole life to have what you have, and to be able to show the world what you have and how proud you are of it, that's always fun.

  Ricky Williams

  Fun, Athlete, World

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. January 13, 2004.

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• I've always been a fighter and I've always fought through things my whole life.

  Serena Williams

  Fighter, Whole

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• I was very, very financially secure my whole life. I have been very lucky to say that.

  Brian Wilson

  Lucky, Secure, Has Beens

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• Going from 300 pounds to 150 pounds was the biggest change of my whole life.

  Carnie Wilson

  Pounds, Whole

  "Carnie Wilson: "It's Dawning On Me That My Health Has To Come First"". Interview with Jenny Schafer, celebritybabyscoop.com. February 22, 2010.

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

  Steve Wozniak

  Life, Design, Computer

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• My dad spent his whole life getting into fights for telling what he believed to be the truth. Basically it comes from my dad-and he's screaming right-wing, so there you are.

  Thom Yorke

  Life, Dad, Fighting

  "Thom Yorke’s View from the Stage". Interview with Judy Bond, www.lionsroar.com. November 1, 1998.

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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 see, gentlemen, reason is an excellent thing, there’s no disputing that, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the rational side of man’s nature, while will is a manifestation of the whole life, that is, of the whole human life including reason and all the impulses. And although our life, in this manifestation of it, is often worthless, yet it is life and not simply extracting square roots.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Squares, Roots

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