Famous Quotes: Life

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
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A lot of the high-level sports are really in your mind.
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I'm not much of a family man. I'm just not that into it. I love kids, I adore them, but I don't want to live my life for them.
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The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.
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Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
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Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.
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All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
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I've always had bronchitis. I've been administered the Sacrament of Death three times for it.
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Some argue we should get coal, oil and gas out of the ground as quickly as possible, build more pipelines and make as much money as we can selling it here and abroad. Their priorities are the economy and meeting short-term energy needs so we can live the lives to which we've become accustomed.
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It's great to have the freedom to enjoy your work and not feel like you're leaving your other life behind.
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I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.
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You don't have a family doctor anymore like you did when you were a kid, who treated you throughout your life.
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I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department. And I suppose because I am fairly well off and a famous musician, I'm up for grabs. And that makes me an eligible bachelor in the press.
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Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.
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There are lots of women and lots of men in the business that the powers that be decide are the right people and they'll stand with them for quite a long time.
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Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
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I'd never made a teen comedy in my life.
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Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.
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I voted for Barack because he was black. 'Cuz that's why other folks vote for other people - because they look like them... That's American politics, pure and simple.
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I realised I could run after finding out that my dad used to run and it gave me the morale that if he did it then maybe I could also run.
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