I hope you're ready, because I'm about to tell you the story of my life. More specifically, why my life ended. And if you're listening to these tapes, you're one of the reasons why.
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Related When you grow up, you gain experience and realise what youre capable of. FRANCESCO TOTTI If youre in an awkward position, feel comfortable enough to walk away. BEAU MIRCHOFF You do that Helen", Mallory dared. "And tell him we said to f*ck off while youre at it". CHLOE NEILL who wants flowers when youre dead? nobody. J.D. SALINGER Thats the thing about the Internet. You can put a lot of distance between yourself and the person yo... ELLEN WRIGHT if youre never scared, or embarased, or hurt, it means you never take any chances. JULIA SOREL Youre gonna grow up and marry some ice cream! Haha! JEFF KINNEY aliens are living on earth for along time,for those who think im talking about another race youre wr... RAJA Dont try to go too fast. Learn your job. Dont ever talk until you know what youre talking about. If ... SAM RAYBURN Ye been oure lord, dooth with youre owene thyngRight as yow list. CHAUCER We have to keep a good frame of mind and not overlook La Villa. Anytime you do that, youre going to ... HECTOR GARCIA Chese now," quod she, "oon of thise thynges tweye: To han me foul and old til that I deye, GEOFFREY CHAUCER If the placebo effect was a week or two, I would understand that and say, 'Yes, youre right.' You kn... BOB GREEN MRS PEARCE. Mr Higgins: youre tempting the girl. It’s not right. She should think of the future. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW This is sams phone" there was a long,heavy pause, and then: "oh." Another pause. "Youre the girl, ar... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Dad, youre so far off the mark I can't even...Lincoln hasn't pressured me at all!" I grabbed my bag ... JESSICA SHIRVINGTON i's in my writing are never capitalized because in the story of my life im just the supporting chara... IJIRASHIIJACK one day I will tell you a story. A story that will make you ponder. A story that will make you wonde... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Whenever I go to New York or any European country, they say: 'Nawal, why don't you get a fac... NAWAL EL SAADAWI My friend, I am going to tell you the story of my life, as you wish; and if it were only the story o... BLACK ELK If you are a dreamer come in If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar A hoper a pray-er a magi... SHEL SILVERSTEIN I live my life progressing for nothing else but the best. JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT From the Kindle Book Reflections in the Mirror of Life: “In a slum somewhere in India As... THE PROPHET OF LIFE Maya Angelou had the ability to glean inspiration out of pain. THE PROPHET OF LIFE If we cannot always be entirely sane in our relationships, the kindest thing we can do for those who... THE SCHOOL OF LIFE When sorrow knocks at your door, tell it you're busy finding happiness. SARU SINGHAL I know what you might be thinking here on your own, but those thoughts won’t last for ever,’ I s... SARAH MOORE FITZGERALD Telling other people our life story changes us in a startling and profound way. The act of telling d... KILROY J. OLDSTER Storytelling is the distinctly human implement designed to synthesize our purposeful interaction wit... KILROY J. OLDSTER But why should I read what somebody else thinks of my life when I know the real story? JIMMY CONNORS The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I don't think my life would be significantly poorer if I don't impersonate Nick Clegg. Life ... RORY BREMNER Could you please be as silent as the G in lasagna? ABOUT LIFE Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night. ABOUT LIFE I always dream of being a millionaire like my uncle!... He's dreaming too. ABOUT LIFE I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their mo... ABOUT LIFE Must I tell the story of my life again? JOHN GARFIELD why can people not just tell one story in life, someone always has something different to say, even ... MIKE GRIST They'll probably start working on my movie sometime... They are doing a complete movie of my life st... IKE TURNER The story of your life can be best told by you, prepare to tell it SOTONYE ANGA When I want to learn about a person, I ask him to tell me about his life. Why? ...because a person's... LORRIN L. LEE That's one of the reasons why we exercise. Anything can happen. And if nothing else, it tests our re... JACK STEWART If I were to say, God, why me? about the bad things, then I should have said, God, why me? about the... ARTHUR ASHE If I were to say, ''God, why me?'' about the bad things, then I should have said, ''God, why me?'' a... ARTHUR ASHE In the journey of life, certain paths may seem to be leading nowhere because of a mountain or hill o... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Why should anyone be interested in my life? It's the prurience I find so extraordinary. Why, why... KATE O'MARA Why are you so scared? Because I just saw the whole of my future life, and it didn't take very long. TERRY PRATCHETT Narrative storytelling enables us to derive ideas from the disparate facts, incongruent motives, con... KILROY J. OLDSTER I tell these stories because I have lied about my life to people who have been kind to me and I am t... ROBERT GOOLRICK Why did You give us so many stories about miracles? Why did You send Your Son down from heaven?... MATTHEW QUICK I suppose there are a lot of reasons to be jaded or sarcastic or bitter in life, but I hang on to th... KELLI O'HARA My life as an actor has submerged me completely because I don't know why. MATHIEU AMALRIC You asked why I couldn't forgive you. It was because you were the love of my life. And you didn... KRISTAN HIGGINS I've never had a humble opinion in my life. If you're going to have one, why bother to be humble abo... JOAN BAEZ At one point in your life, you'll have the thing you want or the reasons why you don't. ANDY RODDICK I began my career creating art for an animated feature film, and it has been a life-long dream to te... THOMAS KINKADE If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, wh... ARTHUR ASHE A Bullet is a man, from time to time he strays, I compare my life to this, To this I relate. And Im ... CHRIS CORNELL Sharing stories that fill our chambers with an explosion of unique voices is a means to instigate an... KILROY J. OLDSTER I'd love him to see me and be proud of me. I hope my dad gets in contact because I'd love nothing mo... DAWN NELSON I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH At the end, all that's left of you are your possessions. Perhaps that's why I've never been able to ... NICOLE KRAUSS May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH You saved my life. Why couldn't I save yours? JENNIFER NIVEN You saved my life. why couldn't I save yours JENNIFER NIVEN Why isn't my life like a situation comedy? Why don't I have a bunch of friends with nothing better t... BILL WATTERSON A girl likes to be crossed a little in love now and then. It is something to think of JANE AUSTEN I was attempting to write the story of my life. It wasn't so much about plot. It was much more about... DAVID LEVITHAN I've been writing all these books that have been largely autobiographical and yet, really, they ... BILL BRYSON I was told having a website would help me. I have yet to figure out why my life story needs to be on... WALLY SCHIRRA I want to know why my name is on there, ... I've got a message to one of the people who's spearheadi... BRIAN BLAIR The reasons why I left were to do with my interest in Buddhism. There were experiences over a period... JAMIE MUIR I love aging. Why would I want to be 21 for the rest of my life? ZOE SALDANA One of the reasons why I went to the Yale School of Drama is because I felt that I was acting off of... LUPITA NYONG'O I went through a period when I felt my film characters were having more fun than I was. It might par... ANGELINA JOLIE Praying is more about listening than talking, that is why God gave you two ears and one mouth. JIM GENOVESE None of it was your fault, the whispers in my head argue. You didn't kill him, after all -... MARIE LU Why poetry, you ask? Because of life, I answer. DEJAN STOJANOVIC I don't let people use me. That's why I like a small number of people in my life. The more people in... ANITA BAKER Prayer is communication. You talk, God listens. You listen when God talks. OMOAKHUANA ANTHONIA I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story. ELVIS PRESLEY How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL I was a bartender for a long time, so I know how to make drinks, but I'm more likely to offer th... ELIZABETH GILBERT Nothing in the world matters if you don't matter. STEVEN CUOCO Nobody cares for you!... That's one of the main reasons why I need you... You are one damn good play... DEYTH BANGER How can you tell a story with one frame that, by its simplicity, manages to tell a story, a gag that... PIERRE COFFIN “When a human being is born the first thing he does is crying..
The rest of his life he'll spend d... ERIK TANGHE I was beginning to learn that your life is a story told about you, not one that you tell. JOHN GREEN What makes for a good argument, at bottom, is being more prepared than anyone else in that courtroom... PATRICIA MILLETT For those who have known pain and suffering and wondered why it all happened... I don’t know the r... HEATHER WOLF My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to tal... FLIP WILSON One of the reasons why Brooklyn didn't go to a (Spanish) school was because of the press attention, DAVID BECKHAM Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The easiest story to tell is the story of your life, in telling it you are at your best because you ... SOTONYE ANGA Romanes eunt domus LIFE OF BRIAN Heather knows why and when her marriage ended with Richie and she knows why my marriage ended with C... DENISE RICHARDS Why you kill me? I never did you anything. Not kill me! I beg not to be locked up. Never let me out ... KASPAR HAUSER I think that was one thing I definitely brought to the table, my aggressiveness and my style of play... LATRELL SPREWELL
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Your ... JAY No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent. JOHN JAY Rap for me is like making movies, telling stories, and getting the emotions of the songs through in ... JAY-Z My mom had early rap records, like Jimmy Spicer. In the middle of the records was a turntable and a ... JAY-Z When I listen to Radio 1 and hear five different tracks in a row using old disco samples, well that&... JAY KAY I'm a mirror. If you're cool with me, I'm cool with you, and the exchange starts. What y... JAY-Z Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because i... JAY-Z I collect art, and I drink wine... things that I like that I had never been exposed to. But I never ... JAY-Z Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama... JAY-Z One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That... JAY-Z I don't sit around with my friends and talk about money, ever. On a record, that's different... JAY-Z All my businesses are part of the culture, so I have to stay true to whatever I'm feeling at the... JAY-Z It's hilarious a lot of times. You have a conversation with someone, and he's like, 'You... JAY-Z I'm far from being god, but I work god damn hard. JAY-Z The burden of poverty isn't just that you don't always have the things you need, it's th... JAY-Z I treat people based on who they really are, not the name. Everyone has to be respectful and be a hu... JAY-Z I love what I do, and when you love what you do, you want to be the best at it. JAY-Z Your job is to inspire people from your neighborhood to get out. JAY-Z I've never looked at myself and said that I need to be a certain way to be around a certain sort... JAY-Z The silencing of the rainforests is a double deforestation, not only of trees but a deforestation of... JAY GRIFFITHS Belief in oneself and knowing who you are, I mean, that's the foundation for everything great. JAY-Z Excellence is being able to perform at a high level over and over again. You can hit a half-court sh... JAY-Z Clearly, many branches of science need an exquisite precision of timekeeping and the infinitesimal d... JAY GRIFFITHS It was a very intense and stressful situation. There was playing in the Johnny-pump (an opened fire ... JAY-Z We are a nation of immigrants, a quilt of many colors, and we've managed over more than two cent... JAY PARINI I grew up in Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, and my mom and pop had an extensive record collection, so M... JAY-Z The U.S. invaded Vietnam because many in our government - Lyndon Johnson's best and brightest - ... JAY PARINI You get to a point in your career, I think, it's not even about money. You're secure. You wa... JAY CUTLER We had an old Victrola with the old bulldog they used to have there. The horn would come out. JAY MCSHANN