Quotes with life-saving

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  • Tallulah Bankhead I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.
    Tallulah Bankhead
    American actress (1902 - 1968)
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  • Bryan Magee I have very strongly this feeling... that our everyday life is at one and the same time banal, overfamiliar, platitudinous and yet mysterious and extraordinary.
    Source: Heidegger and Modern Existentialism (1977)
    Bryan Magee
    British philosopher, broadcaster, politician (1930 - 2019)
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  • A. Philip Randolph I have waited twenty-two years for this... I've waited all my life for this opportunity.
    A. Philip Randolph
    American labor unionist and civil rights activist (1889 - 1979)
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  • Sarah Bernhardt I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all now, and in any critical moment of my life, they all rise up in armed legions for or against me.
    Sarah Bernhardt
    French stage actress (0 - 1923)
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  • Terence I hold this as a rule of life: Too much of anything is bad.
    Terence
    Roman writer of comedies (190 - 159)
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  • Oscar Wilde I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Benjamin Tucker I insist that there is nothing sacred in the life of an invader, and there is no valid principle of human society that forbids the invaded to protect themselves in whatever way they can.
    Source: Individual Liberty
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Tupac Shakur I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life.
    Tupac Shakur
    American rapper and actor (1971 - 1996)
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  • Warren Mitchell I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my ''spaceship'' and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again.
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  • Ronald Reagan I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Andrew Wiles I know it's a rare privilege, but if one can really tackle something in adult life that means that much to you, then it's more rewarding than anything I can imagine.
    Andrew Wiles
    English mathematician (1953 - )
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  • Sir James Matthew Barrie I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.
    Sir James Matthew Barrie
    British playwright (1860 - 1937)
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  • Oscar Wilde I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Dr. Seuss I like nonsense - it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope... and that enables you to laugh at all of life's realities.
    Dr. Seuss
    American children's author, poet, and cartoonist (1904 - 1991)
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  • Theodor S. Geisel I like nonsense - it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all of life's realities.
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  • Jeanette Winterson I like to think the price I paid by being open about my private life helped.
    Source: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal (2004)
    Jeanette Winterson
    English writer (1959 - )
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  • Bhagavad Gita I look upon all creatures equally; none are less dear to me and none more dear. But those who worship me with love live in me, and I come to life in them.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Joyce Cary I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.
    Joyce Cary
    Irish novelist (1888 - 1957)
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  • Oscar Wilde I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bette Davis I love my profession. I would never stop. Relax? I relax when I work. It's my life.
    Source: Nina J. Easton, Los Angeles Times (January 4, 1989) Bette Davis smoking over Stepmother role
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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