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Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
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Humans are imperfect. That's one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We're on the quest for the perfect performance and every note has to be right. Man, every note is not right in life.
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I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away.
Interview on "NOW" with Bill Moyers on May 9, 2003 -
I adopt a very simple approach. I observe and reflect real life and ordinary people and sooner or later that raises a laugh.
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I agree that the last years of life are the best, if one is a philosopher.
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I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
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I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.
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I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.
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I am a Senator against my wishes and feelings, which I regret more than any other of my life.
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I am a writer... I am a genius of a writer; I have it in me. I am writing the best poems of my life; they will make my name.
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I am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful.
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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.
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I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.
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I am persuaded that every time a man smiles, but much more so when he laughs, it adds something to this fragment of life.
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I am pretty sure that we err in treating these sayings as paradoxes. It would be nearer the truth to say that it is life itself which is paradoxical and that the sayings of Jesus are simply a recognition of that fact.
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I am reminded every day of my life, if not by events, then by my wife, that I am not a perfect man.
Speech (1 June 2008) -
I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society.
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I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and women, with their twitching faces, with their lying tongues, like a cork on a rough sea. Like a ribbon of weed I am flung far every time the door opens.
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