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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
- Looking Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, I find that even though I've accomplished a few things in my life, looking back on accomplishments doesn't give me a sense of satisfaction.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Death showed up in my life very early on, so I'm aware of it. If you look at most of the things I write there's a sort of contemplation of mortality - although 'True Blood' doesn't fall into that. Even though there's such a ridiculously high body count!
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been very lucky in everything, really - in my career and in finding someone to share my life with, and in not dying.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If it weren't for the mentorship and guidance from people like my mother, James Brown and others, I wouldn't have been able to make something of my life.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know now that everything I write, I'm going to put out, and I'll have to live with it for the rest of my life.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a huge fan of 'Mad' magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I'd scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I'd wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I could live my life all over I'd do everything the same; the film in my camera would remain the same; there's no way lord, to leave this love behind.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've seen 48 Stanley Cups in my life. I was about six or seven when I started going to games with my dad.
- Gruesome
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Family Life' is a blueprint of my life. It was horrible and physically gruesome in a way the book doesn't attempt to capture. It was emotionally very bleak.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In total, I have spent 35 years at Hokkaido University as a staff member - 2 and a half in the Faculty of Science, and the other 32 and a half in the Faculty of Engineering. Other than about two years of study in America and a few months in other places overseas, most of my life has been spent at the Faculty of Engineering.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to study painting and become a painter, but I had a huge flip-over in my life when I was about 18 or 19. I was part of a criminal environment; I got arrested and convicted, and I had to start thinking in a new way.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have earned enough money in my life. When I started my career, for about 10 years, I told myself I want to make money. Now, I just want to do different roles.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020