- 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 write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I've found in my life with our children is that often you can give them advice and tell them to eat the right things, stay in shape and wear sunscreen, and they don't really want to listen. But then they hear it from someone else, and they do listen.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Throughout my career as a songwriter, I've had a knack for writing songs that were about me and my life experiences and observations.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Munich, and my father was stationed in Salzburg. For the first three years of my life, I lived in Austria back when the American Army was still in Austria. I grew up subsequently in posts around the country around veterans.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even the largest of my dreams and ambitions, I realize with increasing dismay, were puny, measly, compared to the object of my dreaming. I would not say my life to date has been built overmuch of compromise, but still, it surrounds me.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to admit I've rarely been happier in my life. I have been absolutely thrilled to be back in New York and living a block from where I grew up. Just to be back in New York and, quite honestly, away from Hollywood has been an absolute thrill for me. I feel like I'm a real actor again.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton.
- Authority
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always respected the authority figures in my life, including my coaches.
- Last
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- Nov 07, 2020
I decided years ago that if I'm going to keep teaching contemplation, then the last years of my life should be contemplative.
- Fireman
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a fireman very early on in my life and a police officer, so I'm very militaristic, clean.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Speaking as a Democrat, all my life battling for what I conceived to be Democracy, and what I conceived to be right, I am yet an American above Democracy.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was headed in the wrong direction. I didn't think I'd make it to 21. My Uncle Chuck saved my life. He was a graphic designer, and he gave me my first sketchbook. In the front, he wrote, 'Wear it like your underwear.'
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to live honestly in every aspect of my life, which can make things a bit more complicated, right?
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've spent a good part of my life in Silicon Valley, California, and I really like that place.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020