- Nov 07, 2020
My Life Quotes
First-person, unfiltered reflection.
This page is built from first-person quotes about "my life" — a long personal search for meaning, and the deliberate work of clearing out stress and unwanted obligations. For identity-focused sayings, see I Am quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not a politician; I've never run for anything in my life. I'm an economist. I'm a broadcaster. I've been an adviser. I worked for Ronald Reagan.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never knew my father. He was never married to my mother; he was never a part of my life. It was just my mom, my brother and me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think my mother was baffled by me. We were polar opposites. She was shy and retiring. I was over-fond of the limelight. Many times in my life, I was conscious of embarrassing her with my carrying on.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
With pretty much everything that I've done, in terms of going from being a songwriter and producer for other artists to doing my stuff, all the songs that I've kept to myself have always been me writing about my life.
- Chinatown
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child growing up in San Francisco in the 1950s, I sometimes met insults when I ventured outside of Chinatown or my neighborhood. I have even been spat on and threatened with a knife. I could have let my anger fester until it became hate. However, I realized they were isolated incidents, and I simply got on with my life.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started photographing amazing African wildlife for my own pleasure. It was like a much-needed antidote to my life in the city, which I was fast becoming allergic to.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My legs were my life.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an athlete - my legs were everything. I had no idea what my life would be like without them.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
For five years of my life, I was just getting by - every day was painful. I couldn't wear heels, I couldn't run, and I could only walk for, like, 20 minutes. That's not living.
- Meaning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend to navigate by indirection, meaning that most of the major things in my life have happened when I've been thinking about something else.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my own.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't think I've ever loved anybody quite as much... My mother was my life, really; she was my entire world.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first acting job - I used to do commercials, and I had done a couple music videos - but my first job job was 'ATL' with T.I. I auditioned for that, like, five times. I didn't have an agent. And then, from there, my life changed.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020