I'm sure that at no point in my life could I ever have shown the kind of focus and discipline and commitment necessary to work a station at elBulli or Le Bernardin. No. That ain't me.
In many cases, the joy and honor of having a home has lifted people into a spirit of determination to try and achieve a better life for themselves and their families.
But I'd made up my mind early on in life that I never wanted to be a mother.
I've been dealing with politicians all my life. All my life. And I've always gotten them to do what I need them to do.
I have a very small group of friends that I've had - the three of them - for the majority of my life.
To successfully lose weight after 40, you need to understand that imbalanced hormones and chemicals have a huge impact on your health. It is possible, however, to live a clean, healthy, and long life - with a slim body, even after 40!
I've lived a charmed life. I married the only girl I ever loved and did the only job I ever loved.
I feel like at the Olympics I gave the best performance of my life and I wasn't rewarded for that as an athlete. Yes, my fans and my mom were happy about it, but I didn't win that gold medal.
My mom and I have been through a lot. But when you think about it, whose life is perfect? It is just really good because we did this together.
With any entertainment business, you sort of have to be OK with just going with it. I've learned very much to just go with the flow and see what happens with my life, and what happens happens.
The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance... has helped to determine your path through life.
I feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not good enough. I really relate to that.
I'm a team player. But I will say that I've never been a 'yes man' in my life.
I'm good but not great at 'Madden'. I have friends that their whole life is based around this video game.
There is a collective as well as an individual humor inclining peoples to sadness or cheerfulness, making them see things in bright or somber lights. In fact, only society can pass a collective opinion on the value of human life; for this the individual is incompetent.
You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
I'm not interested in passion and love for their own sake - without the struggle of life, they're just fluff.
I have learned to be ready for anything - and be there for my kids. That's what life's all about.
The whole celebrity thing never is normal and I think the fuller your life is, the more you are able to just kind of call a truce with it on a good day.
Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.
Here's something I probably shouldn't be saying: I never listen to my soundtrack albums because I can't stand it. It's just stereo. When I write, I write in surround. My life is in surround.
Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we're still at the mercy of nature.
I'm an actor doing a job, but I'm also living a life.
In the EU you have half a billion people who share a common belief in democracy, in rights, in the kind of economic life we want.
We sing these songs for the everyday occasions of life, and they are very close to the hearts of our people.
Loft living is the antithesis of suburban domesticity, if only because the open spaces don't easily accommodate family life. Lofts also offer residents the opportunity - and responsibility - to structure their own space to reflect what's important to them.
My home life now is mostly women. They are better than us. They make me better.
What I feel like I'm doing is showing people what is humanly possible when someone commits their entire life to something.
You've got to make a decision when you write about your life, and I decided I was going to be honest, and some of those things will be embarrassing.
Being on daytime TV has its benefits. You can still have a life and you know you have a check coming every week.
I remember 'vulnerability' being an unattractive word for most of my life, and I resented it as a direction coming from a director just because it implied weakness so I get the job. But it is that humbling place that creates compassion.
People never expected a boy from a small town to have a life like I did.
I should have worked harder in my life. I suffer from a guilt complex.
Personally - and I don't mean to brag - my jokes have been falling flat for most of my life.
I concentrate, more than I think virtually any comic book artist has in the past, on the so-called mundane details of every day life - quotidian life. What happens to a person during a working day, marital relations, and stuff like that.
If you are the one who is dumped, then you feel like your life is over.
