Quotes with life-threatening

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  • Bob Ainsworth My heroes are the non-commissioned officers. If I had another life that's what I'd be - a regimental sergeant major or a similar rank. That's where the spirit of the armed forces is.
    Bob Ainsworth
    British Labour Party politician (1952 - )
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  • Barbara Corcoran My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Bell Hooks My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • George Foreman My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.
    George Foreman
    American professional boxer (1949 - )
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  • Bertrand Piccard My life and the life of my family has to do with exploration, with adventure. My grandfather was the first man in the stratosphere, and my father was the first to touch the deepest point in the ocean... For me, adventure and exploration is something in the blood.
    Bertrand Piccard
    Swiss psychiatrist (1958 - )
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  • Bill Walton My life changed irrevocably four-and-a-half years ago when my spine failed and collapsed. I spent two years on the floor, in excruciating, debilitating and unrelenting pain. I can only describe the pain as being submerged into a vat of scalding acid that has an electric current running through it. And you can never get out, ever.
    Bill Walton
    American basketball player (1952 - )
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  • Ahmed Ben Bella My life has been a bit special, this is true. I participated in the liberation of my country. I was one of the organisers of its struggle for liberation. I likewise actively participated in all the struggles for liberation.
    Ahmed Ben Bella
    Algerian politician, socialist soldier and revolutionary (1916 - 2012)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Maya Angelou My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Charles M. Schultz My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right.
    Charles M. Schultz
    American cartoonist (1922 - 2000)
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  • Beth Ditto My life hasn't been conventional and it hasn't been linear. I've had to make it up as I've gone along, which has taught me a lot. If you don't accept the obvious options that are laid out for you, it's up to you to work out where you're going and to create your own specific rules and goals.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Voltaire My life is a battle.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Bill Hader My life is different since I moved back to L.A. from New York, mostly because I have a family and I don't go out.
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • Beatrice Wood My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.
    Beatrice Wood
    American artist (1893 - 1998)
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  • V.S. Naipaul My life is short. I can't listen to banality.
    V.S. Naipaul
    Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer (1932 - 2018)
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  • Tim O'Brien My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living alive, and the dead.
    Tim O'Brien
    American novelist (1946 - )
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  • Burt Shavitz My life is the land, the dogs, the car, the motorcycle, the pond, the canoe, going to pick up mail. It's just a rural retreat that I enjoy.
    Burt Shavitz
    American beekeeper and businessman (1935 - 2015)
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  • Adam Duritz My life isn't necessarily more important than anyone else's: I'm just better in talking about it.
    Adam Duritz
    American musician and record producer (1964 - )
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot My life seemed to be a series of events and accidents. Yet when I look back I see a pattern.
    New Scientist interview
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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