It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

You can't work all your life.

You can't be a punk all your life.

What is the point of working all your life and then stopping?

Even if you've been a coward all your life, death is a heroic act.

You can't go on being a 19-year-old rock-and-roller all your life.

People die millionaires. All your life, you're gonna stress money?

Sometimes you can listen to a song all your life without hearing it.

You work all your life to get the top; you don't want to give that up.

Society has made us believe you should look like an 18-year-old model all your life.

It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.

If you wait for the right time or the good times to start a business, you wait all your life.

It's a blessing to stay a child all your life - pretend to be this and that. And get paid for it.

College isn't the only answer. Reading is a college that you can and should attend all your life.

I guess you cannot prepare yourself enough for stardom, even though you strive for it all your life.

Home can be the friend you have been searching for all your life or the person you met once very briefly.

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.

I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it.

As a Formula One driver, you dream about winning your first race all your life. I am desperate to know what it feels like.

The funny thing about the golf swing is that you try to alter it and end up with the same faults as you've had all your life.

You can't just sit around and make protest albums all your life; eventually it comes to the point where you have to do something.

You wait all your life to be signed by a major label, and then when they sign you, they don't want you to do what you want to do.

You study all your life, you work really hard to do your best work onstage and onscreen, and then you make your best money playing an ant.

I take people the way they are. You could work all your life to change them, and they never will. What's the point? They need to be who they are.

When you play a team sport all your life, you need to get out there sometimes and show some individualism in a sport where you play against the nature.

If you don't have many possessions, then you don't need to work all your life like a slave to sustain them, and therefore you have more time for yourself.

Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.

You can work all your life and make all the waters in all the rivers on Earth drinkable, but if, when you die, you are not ready to meet God, it doesn't matter.

I've been a sinner and a saint. If you've been a saint all your life, it's pretty easy to sleep at night. If you've been a sinner, you're just as comfortable in it.

Any time you are in a position where your peers plus the people who paid your bills all your life are honoring you, it doesn't get a hell of a lot better than that.

About the only thing that'll stay with you that you can trust all your life is your breath. Your breath will be there at the very last, because when it stops, you will stop.

We have fallen in love with the body. That's that thing that looks back at us from the mirror. That's the repository of that lovely identity that you keep chasing all your life.

One of the main points everywhere in my life is fairness. Coming from South Africa and being treated unfairly all your life because of your skin colour, that's been a huge point.

I'm the most insecure guy in Hollywood. If you had it good all your life, you figure it can't ever get bad, but when you had it bad, you wonder how long a thing like this will last.

All your life, you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. And when something nudges it into outline, it is like being ambushed by a grotesque.

Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.

If you've been told all your life that you're good-looking, people just flock around you and you never really have to try or have to learn an interesting craft, skill or hobby - or even have depth.

When you have been born in a war like me, living in a war as a child, when you have been in wars as a war correspondent all your life - trust me! You develop a form of fatalism; you are always ready to die.

Until you go through a bereavement, you don't know how you will cope. What we have found out is that life is completely different. The foundations that you have been building all your life are knocked down.

I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life, and to say things to the world that are true.

I've taken a lot of time to build up the name Flavor Flav, but this could come tumbling down in 30 seconds. If you want to keep what you worked for hard all your life, then you got to do the right thing in your life.

If, during childhood, you were fortunate to have a parent who drilled into you, 'You can be anything you want to be if you try hard enough at it,' and then supported you in actions, that is something you take with you all your life.

What you experience in the army, aged 18 to 21, is what you take through all your life. You cross invisible lines: you shoot someone, get shot, break into people's houses. It's naive to think you won't carry anything into your life.

You're going to watch football all your life - you're going to watch the Champions League and the Europa League - and I don't have a great feeling when I watch the Europa League, but when I watch the Champions League, I have a great feeling.

If you're an impressionistic painter and you want to paint expressionism, you've got to change. You've got to figure out a way to do it and do it. If you've been playing jazz all your life and you want to start to play rock n' roll, blues, then do it.

I never consciously said, 'I want to be an actor.' It sounds stupid, but it's kind of like being a painter or something. You don't say, 'From today on I'm going to be a painter.' It's not something conscious - you've just been painting pictures all your life.

The downside to becoming a doctor, I think, is it's a very long process; four years of medical school, three years of internship, two years of residency, umpteen years of specialization, and then finally you get to be what you have trained almost all your life for.

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