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- 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
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my family fell apart, it was such a troubled part of my life... I think I could understand what I was going through, but I didn't have the vocabulary for it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was told having a website would help me. I have yet to figure out why my life story needs to be on the web.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The last thing I would do to this country is to even put my personal interests about the country's interest. I have never done that in my life, and I will never do it because I, you know, I was brought up as a very patriotic Egyptian, and this is not just going to happen.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Doing 'Narcos' is a very, very important part of my life. I dedicated so much of my life to it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad and stepmom live in Mobile, Ala., and spend their vacation time an hour's drive away in Orange Beach, Ala. This means that, throughout my life, I have regularly vacationed there as well.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm happy that I know how to speak 'Southern.' I spent a lot of time in Alabama throughout my life. I even lived there for part of junior high and high school, so I learned the true beauty and mastery of the Southern dialect. 'Y'all' is one of the greatest and most useful words ever invented.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very wary of fawning too much over heroes. There's an old adage that heroes are best kept at arm's length, and in a few instances in my life, that's been true.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get photographed at events and it must look like that's my life, but it's not. That's not real life. I wonder do the Kardashians have any real life?
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
My marriage broke up when what I really wanted in my life was children. I really worried about it and thought, 'I'm not married anymore. I'm probably never going to get the chance to have children.' All those things run through your mind.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just kept making records, touring in Europe a lot, and then I had a baby in 2006, so my life has been very, very much family-orientated.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've lost all my money on these films. They are not commercial. But I'm glad to lose it this way. To have for a souvenir of my life pictures like Umberto D. and The Bicycle Thief.
- Extraordinary Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
The main goal in my life is to make extraordinary things out of the ordinary.
- Nov 07, 2020