Famous Quotes: Life

Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it.
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I am proud to represent these men and women who empower people in developing nations and promote the Peace Corps mission of peace and friendship. These volunteers are making major strides to improve the lives of people and communities around the world.
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The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.
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I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed.
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I have so much respect for people in the theater. You can't do 10 or 15 takes. It's all live. It's like life in motion.
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It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life.
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It's about getting the kids up and fed, getting one to school, getting the other down for a nap, going to the grocery store, picking one up from school, getting the other one down for another nap, cooking dinner... I live my life at these two extremes. I'm either a full-time stay-at-home mom or a full-time actress.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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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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Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost.
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If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.
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A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
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If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
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I was curious and hungry at a young age, and jazz was such a mystery to me, an ocean where you can express yourself in the moment. It represented freedom, it represented wearing wings and going somewhere with music.
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In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.
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It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood - no more - to man, and love to a woman is life or death.
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I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.
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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating. Most people attach failure to something not working out or how people perceive you. This way, it is about answering to yourself.
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Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.
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