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Star Wars hasn't changed my life at all.
Natalie Portman

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
Arthur Ashe

One man has enthusiasm 10 minutes, another 10 days, but it is the man who has it 10 years who makes a success of his life.
Edward B Butler

I wish everyone would stop asking me if I'm OK about the whole thing - just let me carry on with my life!
Nicole Merry

True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness. [Thus Spoke Zarathustra from the Chapter 'Of Reading and Writing']
Friedrich Nietzsche

We shall have to walk and live a Woolworth life hereafter.
Sir Harold Nicolson

I try to stay focused on my life and do try not to be brought into the Hollywood fantasy.
Jennifer Connelly

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
Charles Kettering

I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
Ayn Rand

We lost the World Cup but I won another cup: my life.
Ronaldo

If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.
Abraham Maslow

Acting is not all that it is cracked up to be; one of the most over-rated things that there is in life!
Judy Holliday

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
Gilbert Highet

Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans.
Candice Bergen

The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was. Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
Bernard Malamud

My life has been a series of emergencies.
Lana Turner

Sport is a preserver of life.
Hippocrates

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin

Can you imagine? Finding out that you're going to be on two series at one time? I said to myself, my life is never going to be the same again. - on being cast for both Baywatch and Baywatch Nights
Donna D'Errico

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
Socrates

You can bet your life the Duke will be looking for a spot where the rays will cascade through the branches!
David Dickinson

I may be revered or defamed and decried; But I tried to live my life right.
Tracy Chapman

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.
John Gardner

I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life.
Christiaan Barnard

Life is too short for a long story.
Mary Wortley Montagu

The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
Florence King

Abstinence for me is about romance. It has nothing to do with my relationship with God. It’s definitely a bonus in that department, but it’s nothing spiritual. It’s about giving something special to that person you’re going to spend the rest of your life with.
Jessica Simpson

Politics is a life sentence. It's an obsessive, all-demanding, utterly fascinating, totally committing profession - stimulating, satisfying, stretching.
Michael Heseltine

In our rampantly secular world, biography is now the only form of life after death
David Cannadine

The great omission in American life is solitude... that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit.
Marya Mannes

I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 96% how I react to it.
Scipio Africanus

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart. [advice on how to get through life well]
Ruth Graham

Someone said that life is a party. You join in after it's started and leave before it's finished.
Elsa Maxwell

It's like being on the Titanic and seeing there is only one lifeboat left and we are all trying to dive into it! [on keeping Southampton in the Premiership]
Harry Redknapp

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
Golda Meir

My greatest achievement so far is that I've been able to continue with my normal life. I love what I do, but more so, I'm glad to have people who care about me close by.
Kim Smith

Without duty, life is soft and boneless; it cannot hold itself together
Joseph Joubert

Playing is the only place where I've felt in touch with my sexuality, my spirituality and my emotions, and never ever, ever anywhere else. So my life is a bit tricky because when I'm not playing, I'm just trying to walk down the street.
Tori Amos

Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.
Paris Hilton

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.
Arthur Rubinstein

Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence.
Bobby Charlton

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
William Cowper

The Answer to the Great Question Of.....Life, the Universe and Everything.....(is) Forty-two.
Douglas Adams

I think, in my life and in my experience, teens have stress, and everybody's stress is unique, and everybody's frame of reference is different
Chris Klein

There's no doubt about it, show business lures the people who didn't get enough love, attention, or approval early in life and have grown up to become bottomless, gaping vessels of terrifying, abject need. Please laugh.
Dennis Miller

Such phantom blossoms palely shining
Over the lifeless boughs of Time
Edgar Lee Masters

Life may be not only meaningless but absurd.
Thomas Nagel

If only we could go back to Moscow! Sell the house, finish with our life here, and go back to Moscow.
Anton Chekhov



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