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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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My own laugh is the real thing and I've had it all my life.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm from Ghana, in West Africa, and all the women in Ghana absolutely love shea butter. We use it for everything, head to toe. I've used it all my life.
- Pool
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been a grant seeker all my life, but when I apply for one and get it, that means someone else doesn't. I didn't want to be a part of that anymore. I wanted to contribute to that pool and make it bigger.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been on my grandfather's boat, Calypso, twice in my life. My mother raised me in a pretty typical middle-class life.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like my father and grandfather, Philippe and Jacques-Yves Cousteau, I've dedicated my life to exploring and protecting our seas, in large part through documentary film.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
And, I think, as a kid, I had a strong motivation to do something of my life. And, I think that's the strongest motivation I really got. And, that came obviously from my parents and my grandparents.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a lot of things going on with my life right now that don't just have to do with career. So I have a hard time making decisions about work. That's really a luxury problem.
- Big Part
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prejudice and discrimination have always been a big part of my life. When I was 6, I got beat up and called dirty Jew boy because they thought I looked Jewish.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing, for me, was a feat of self-preservation. If I did not do it, I would die. So I did it. Obstinacy, not talent, saved my life.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I needed my life as a springboard for my fiction. I have to have something solid under my feet when I write. I'm not a fantasist. I bounce up and down on the diving board, and I go into the water of fiction. But I've got to begin in life so I can pump life into it throughout.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Making fake biography, false history, concocting a half-imaginary existence out of the actual drama of my life is my life.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My goal would be to find a big, fat subject that would occupy me to the end of my life, and when I finish it, I'll die. What's agony is starting; I hate starting them. I just want to keep writing now and end when it ends.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could spend my life having meetings, a meeting to have another meeting, a hundred meetings to have another thousand meetings. It's not what I'm about. I don't want to have to get in a queue; that's not how I like to live.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I call myself a traditionalist, although I have fought against tradition all my life.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ultimate problem confronting me all my life has been the senseless injury to and neglect of my sister.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
From the time that I was in high school, my life really revolved around live theater, so it almost feels genetic.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020