- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Live Quotes
Different ways of living, side by side.
This collection uses "live" as its thread but covers unusually varied ground — from reflections on how long humanity might last, to observations about wealth and poverty coexisting closely in Mexico. For quotes on love and connection, see Love quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's my job to help people so that God can continue to help them live out the mission that they have... they've got to be healthy to do that.
- Each Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love visiting LA. It's an endlessly fascinating city, and is, of course, America's entertainment capital. Each time I go, I fall in love with it all over again. That said, it's not the sort of place I'd want to live.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love your enemies... it's not always an easy tenet to live by... and I have more often than not been inclined to wish my enemies ill than well.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had been a ballet dancer and never could make a living, and just being so excited that I got to, all of a sudden, live as an actor.
- Nov 07, 2020
You decide the things that ultimately you do. You have choices in this world, and that's how I live.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I live to be 90, and I'm planning to, I'll always love performing for a live audience.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I went to Egypt right after 9/11 I was very upset. I used to live in Egypt. I had a lot of friends there. I spent two years teaching there. I had very fond feelings for that part of the world, and the fact that a culture I liked so much had attacked my own culture was really very upsetting to me.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Israelis and the Palestinians don't know each other. They live right there, but they've become strangers. And it makes it much more difficult to make peace with a person you really don't know, and that's an obstacle in itself.
- Prove
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't prove that God doesn't exist, but I'd much rather live in a universe without one.
- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
For many, to live in a universe that may have no purpose, and no creator, is unthinkable.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother sent me and my sisters to Italy every year for language school, so I spent a lot of my teenage years in Florence and Rome. After university I went to Harvard for a year, dropped out, and then went to Paris, where I ended up staying 10 years. It's different from being American: If you're British, you're expected to live at the far corners.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm married to an American, and although we live in Europe, I think of myself as an honorary American.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020