Live Quotes

"Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large"

Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Politician

"The purpose of the ADA was to provide clear and comprehensive national standards to eliminate discrimination against individuals with disabilities. As a result, individuals with disabilities are now able to live in their homes and have access to new careers"

Jim Ramstad, Politician

"On the one hand, there is no reason that a black person needs to live a portion of his or her life being concerned about the people of color around him. On the other hand, if you don't you're crazy"

Henry Hampton, Activist

"We can live our own lives in a way that does not bring reproach on the principles we claim to support"

Jesse Helms, Politician

"I live in Italy part time, and they're obsessed with what's happening in LA too. They make fun of Americans, but the world wants to know what's going on in Hollywood"

Debi Mazar, Actress

"I've lived most of my life in Manhattan, but as close as Brooklyn is to Manhattan, there are people who live there who have been to Manhattan maybe once or twice"

Ellen Burstyn, Actress

"If I live to be 90, and I'm planning to, I'll always love performing for a live audience"

Lawrence Welk, Musician

"I could never live a nonproductive life and I feel that I have lived a productive life as far as I want to in terms of this company that I have for so many years"

Katherine Dunham, Dancer

"You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow"

Harriet Martineau, Writer

"I just found out about 10 days ago that I must live 300 or 400 yards from Britney Spears... so now I have to move"

George Clooney, Actor

"We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them"

Hayao Miyazaki, Director

"I truly believe that we can overcome any hurdle that lies before us and create the life we want to live. I have seen it happen time and time again"

Gillian Anderson, Actress

"If it's a role like this one, an actual live person, a legend, there's lots of material laid out"

David Strathairn, Actor

"I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has"

Constance Baker Motley, Activist

"I never thought I'd live to see the day that an American administration would denounce the state of Israel for rebuilding Jerusalem"

Mike Pence, Politician

"In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it"

Cal Thomas, Journalist

"I only made two studio movies, that was a long time ago and obviously I removed myself. I think some of that is geographical. I live in New York and I want to work there, it's as simple as that"

Campbell Scott, Actor

"I don't live that much with the character. I find it hard enough having to spend so many hours with the character during the day"

Catherine Deneuve, Actress

"I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the homage of their gratitude and admiration to the memory of those who nobly sacrifice their lives, that their fellow-men may live in safety and in honor"

Edward Everett, Statesman

"Because you don't live near a bakery doesn't mean you have to go without cheesecake"

Hedy Lamarr, Actress

"I'm not pessimistic about people in general, but only about the way they live"

Claude Chabrol, Director

"I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life"

Corazon Aquino, President

"There are a lot of women who live with pot-bellied pigs"

Catherine Zeta-Jones, Actress

"I think people tend to live, whether they like it or not, influenced by what's next door to them"

Campbell Scott, Actor

"I had been to New Mexico many times. I loved it. It's a very exotic, interesting, severely crazy environment. I don't know if I could live there all year. It's such an intense place"

Campbell Scott, Actor

"I'm someone who loves to enjoy life and tries to focus on real things and real friendships. That's why I live very simply. I'm a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl. I don't spend much time fixing myself up or trying to look cool. I live like a normal person and even though I'm in a very high-profile business, I really don't let it affect the way I live"

Cameron Diaz, Actress

"I think we raised about 20,000 pounds. There was a live performance thing so we thought we'd donate the equipment for an online charity in Britain. I hated to part with my guitar, but it was for such a great cause"

Dan Hawkins, Musician

"We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure"

Cesar Chavez, Activist

"As long as there is rape... there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going to become what you want to become or who you want to become. You are not going to live in the world you want to live in"

Andrea Dworkin, Critic

"Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long"

Anita Brookner, Historian

"You can see when an actor gets bored: Their eyes go dead. I promised myself I'd never let that happen. If it does, I'll go and live on a desert island for a year"

Anna Friel, Actress

"I also like to follow nature's rhythm. In times or places, they have their own rhythm. So you cannot push it. So we must accept that as well. Wherever we're born at this time, we just live it"

Bai Ling, Actress

"In short, we cannot grow, we cannot achieve authentic discovery, and our eyes cannot be cleansed to the truly beautiful possibilities of life, if we simply live a neutral existence"

Armstrong Williams, Journalist

"If I had my life to live over, I would want to be a man"

Little Richard, Musician

"Forty-two years ago, I came to America from communist Cuba so I might have a better way of life, a freer way of life - a more democratic way of life. I wanted to live the American Dream where if you worked hard and put your mind to the task, anything was possible"

Mel Martinez, Politician

"Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man"

Amos Bronson Alcott, Educator

"You have to decide if you're going to wilt like a daisy or if you're just going to go forward and live the life that you've been granted"

Kevin Costner, Actor

"The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started"

J. G. Holland, Novelist

"I spend my time trying to figure art out. I was brought up to believe that the way one processes information is by making it into art. That's how I live my life"

Sean Lennon, Musician

"A man like Wilde was not free to live out of the closet as a homosexual, and women in general were not able to be truly themselves; there was no place for a woman's voice to be heard or for her to express her sexuality"

Marisa Tomei, Actress

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