Whole Life Quotes - Page 6

• I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.

  Sally Ride

  Talking, People, Should

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• As a longtime practitioner of yoga and a person who's been involved in physical fitness my whole life, I can tell you, yoga helps you achieve altered states of consciousness. It is not just stretching. The only way you can say that it's stretching is if you haven't done it, or that you haven't done it rigorously for a long period of time.

  Joe Rogan

  Yoga, Long, Way

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• I spent my whole life in the private sector, 25 years in the private sector. I understand that when government takes more money out of the hands of people, it makes it more difficult for them to buy things. If they can't buy things, the economy doesn't grow. If the economy doesn't grow, we don't put Americans to work.

  Mitt Romney

  Government, Hands, Years

  "The Kudlow Report", www.cnbc.com. April 13, 2011.

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• The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.

  Jose Saramago

  Writing, Men, Wisest Man

  "How Characters Became the Masters and the Author Their Apprentice". Jose Saramago's Nobel lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 7, 1998.

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• I feel that my whole life is a contribution.

  Pete Seeger

  Life Is, Feels, Contribution

  "The day Pete Seeger faced down the HUAC as though, well, he had a hammer" by Scott Martelle, www.latimes.com. January 29, 2014.

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• I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.

  Vikram Seth

  Not Sure, Whole

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• I've been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better tennis player and able to play against this kind of level despite their strength and experience.

  Maria Sharapova

  Player, Tennis, Competition

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• My whole life has been the skate life. I don't really remember doing anything besides skateboarding.

  Ryan Sheckler

  Skateboarding, Remember, Skates

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• I've built my whole life around loving music. I'm a writer for 'Rolling Stone,' so I am constantly searching for new bands and soaking up new sounds.

  Rob Sheffield

  Sound, Rolling, Band

  Rob Sheffield (2010). “Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut”, p.11, Penguin

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• We're all products of what we want to project to the world. Even people who don't spend any time, or think they don't, on preparing themselves for the world out there - I think that ultimately they have for their whole lives groomed themselves to be a certain way, to present a face to the world.

  Cindy Sherman

  Thinking, People, World

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• Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four.

  Carly Simon

  Years, Done, Four

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• My style icon really for my whole life has been my mother.

  Jessica Simpson

  Mother, Icons, Style

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• I felt alien my whole life but I didn't feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.

  Patti Smith

  People, Aliens, Gender

  "The life and deaths of Patti Smith". Interview with Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2008.

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• My whole life I've played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a machine or a business is just horrible.

  Robert Smith

  Ideas, Machines, Becoming

  "The Cure's Robert Smith: 'I'm uncomfortable with politicised musicians'" by Louis Pattison, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2011.

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• I've been intrigued by politics my whole life. And, yes, I am very close to the Clintons. I was a Hillary person until I was an Obama person. And she was a Hillary person, too, until she was an Obama one, evidently.

  Kevin Spacey

  Clinton, Intrigued, Persons

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• People like us are afraid to leave ball. What else is there to do? When baseball has been your whole life, you can't think about a future without it, so you hang on as long as you can.

  Willie Stargell

  Sports, Baseball, Thinking

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• I think baking cookies is equal to Queen Victoria running an empire. There's no difference in how seriously you take the job, how seriously you approach your whole life.

  Martha Stewart

  Running, Jobs, Queens

  FaceBook post by Martha Stewart from Apr 04, 2016

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• My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.

  Tom Stoppard

  Life, Waiting, Answers

  Tom Stoppard (2011). “Lord Malquist and Mr. Moon: A Novel”, p.40, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Country music is important to me, and I love it, but it's not my whole life.

  George Strait

  Country, Important, Music Is

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• My whole life, my dream has been to be a quarterback.

  Tim Tebow

  Dream, Quarterback, Has Beens

  "Does God Have a Tim Tebow Complex?" by Jason Fagone, www.gq.com. August 10, 2009.

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• Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Law, Perspective, Style

  Letter, The Champion, July 1990

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• And also I think particularly as a female, you're taught to be defensive your whole life. You're taught not to be aggressive.

  Uma Thurman

  Thinking, Female, Taught

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• The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Games, America, Battle

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1873). “American Institutions and Their Influence”, p.432

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• Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings.

  Francois Truffaut

  Misunderstood, Hitchcock, Misunderstanding

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• I lost my sense of trust, honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emotional mess. I've never been so miserable in my whole life. I just wanted to go to bed and never get up.

  Shania Twain

  Honesty, Emotional, Compassion

  "Shania Twain Reveals Heartbreak: Who's the Most Jilted Female Celebrity?". www.foxnews.com. May 04, 2011.

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