Living My Life Quotes - Page 20

• I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Jobs, Time Keeping, Busy

  Pierre Elliott Trudeau (1995). “Memoirs”, McClelland & Stewart Limited

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• To be honest, I’m more concerned with living my life than writing about my life. I feel like that’s really the main thing I know now that I didn’t know when I was younger — and that is that you have to have a life to write about one. If you’re more worried about having experiences so you can write about them, I think you’re kinda being ridiculous, and I think a lot of young people look at it like that.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting that I should leave as a Jew. I don't want to ... turn my back on a great and noble heritage.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Thinking, Noble, Heritage

  "The Atlantic" Magazine, March 1964.

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• I never pay attention, to no numbers, no views, comments ... I just try to keep on going, keep on living my life so I can continue to put out music that's real.

  Kirko Bangz

  Real, Views, Numbers

  Source: www.parlemag.com

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• I know how I want to try and live my life. I know I dont want to leave any darkness behind me.

  Ali Hewson

  Darkness, Trying, Want

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• I wanted to be left alone to live my life, so it was very easy for people to pretend that they were me.

  Mohsen Makhmalbaf

  People, Easy, Left Alone

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm basically a 'do unto others' type person. I don't have any religious feelings because I'm an atheist, but I live my life like there's a God. And if there was he'd probably love me.

  Ricky Gervais

  Religious, Atheist, Feelings

  "Office Ricky's not in it for fame". Daily Mirror Interview, www.rickygervais.com. November 15, 2004.

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• I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”
  - Jimi Hendrix,  
      
  “The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Justice, Want, Way

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• I don't live my life seeking validation from people on social media.

  Ricki-Lee Coulter

  Media, Validation, People

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• If I could relive my life, what I would do is work with scientists. But not one scientist, because they're locked into their little specializations. I'd go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.

  Agnes Denes

  Flower, Littles, Bees

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I came back from Pakistan, I wanted to take computer classes nearby. I asked my brother. I was in my home, cooking for my family, and all our relatives and guests. But I said, "I want to live my life as a woman, but I want to study." But, he told me, "Just study at home, you don't need to go out." He said, "If you go to the courses, what will our relatives say? They will lose respect for us." They told me, "We know you're feeling different, but we cannot do anything about it."

  Malina Suliman

  Brother, Home, Class

  "Afghan graffiti artist risks her life to challenge the burqa under the Taliban". Interview with Katie Booth, womenintheworld.com. May 21, 2015.

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• I'm still strong and in the best shape to continue living my life.

  Compay Segundo

  Strong, Shapes, Stills

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• I'm going to live my life like I've got one life to live.

  Sammy Kershaw

  Philosophy, One Life To Live

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• If I could change the way I live my life today, I wouldn't change a single thing.

  Lisa Stansfield

  Magnificence, Today, Way

  Song: Change, Album: Real Love

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• I think I'm a better actress for having friends and interests outside the theatre. I wouldn't want to live my life surrounded by other actors all the time.

  Penelope Keith

  Thinking, Theatre, Actors

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• My mom was an enthusiastic, positive, glass-is-half-full type of person and that is how I live my life and I owe that to her. She was an amazing woman.

  Kliff Kingsbury

  Mom, Glasses, Half

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• I'm living my life and I found a woman who I love.

  Taye Diggs

  Found

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I sometimes have the sense that I live my life as a writer with my nose pressed against the wide, shiny plate glass window of the"mainstream" culture. The world seems full of straight, large-circulation, slick periodicals which wouldn't think of reviewing my book and bookstores which will never order it.

  Jan Clausen

  Book, Thinking, Order

  Jan Clausen (1989). “Books & Life”

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• I hate to lose but having the belt doesn't define who I am. It's how I live my life and what I put into things is what defines me.

  Urijah Faber

  Hate, Who I Am, Belts

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I didn't choose the fact that I was gay, but I did choose whether to live my life as a gay woman-that was the terrifying thing for me. Especially being a gay actress.

  Portia de Rossi

  Gay, Scary, Facts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't really think about dance except just before rehearsals start. I put it off. I don't live my life thinking about dance

  Paul Taylor

  Thinking, Rehearsal

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• The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life.

  Betty Buckley

  Feminist, Feminism, Identity

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• I discovered at 18 that singing and songwriting was my strength. I decided that it was closest to my heart and if I pursued it then there would be no competition. I would just live my life being myself and living my dream.

  Jason Mraz

  Music, Dream, Heart

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• Attention is something I've learned to ignore. This is what I do: I live my life and they document it.

  Rihanna

  Attention, I've Learned, I Live My Life

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• I didn't even think of my breasts in a nostalgic way, I just wanted to be able to live my life without that fear all the time. It's not 'pity me', it's a decision I made that's got rid of this weight that I was carrying around.

  Sharon Osbourne

  Cancer, Thinking, Decision

  "Sharon Osbourne reveals she had preventive double mastectomy" by Lizzy Davies, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2012.

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