Having life experiences outside of acting is something my family has always made sure happens.
— Yara Shahidi
A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
— Yanni
If I didn't have children, I think my life would be a failure.
— Yann Martel
No one is an environmentalist by birth. It is only your path, your life, your travels that awaken you.
— Yann Arthus-Bertrand
I learned to be a hot-air balloon pilot to take tourists over the Masai Mara Reserve in order to earn some money and finance the work I was doing with my wife, Anne. We were studying the life of a family of lions for more than two years. Taking pictures was a way to capture information we could not put in words.
Sitting on the airplane seat today, I was thinking - I have been in different cities every week. Most of the time, it's because of golf tournaments. But occasionally, I also attend various events. All of a sudden, I feel like I am a business woman. Although sometimes I feel tired, I do enjoy this kind of life.
— Yani Tseng
I have been gender-nonconforming my entire life.
— Yance Ford
White people get to do that all of the time. They get to engage in bad behavior, even felonious behavior, but they rarely wind up in jail. But as a black person, losing your temper can cost you your life. Or insisting on your rights can cost you your life.
There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Never, never in my life did I have it in my mind to become an actress or be part of a film.
— Yalitza Aparicio
Succeeding in life is a difficult business - you need to work 16 hours a day, face failures along the way, remember that nobody owes you a thing, and take risks.
— Yair Lapid
I don't believe in killing people. I believe in locking you up for the rest of your life.
— Yahya Jammeh
In France, I found there is a lot of attention to the little details and to the quality of life.
— Yael Naim
The fact that my mother's life was cut short is something that pushes me to always move forward and live the best life I possibly can. In a way, I feel like I can take her along with me through every experience, and in that sense, her beautiful energy and spirit will live on.
— Yael Cohen
It's impossible to have a personal life when you're constantly travelling.
— Xzibit
I'm pretty goofy. I really do like to sing and dance in real life. I'm a rhythmic person. I love comedy; I love making people laugh. That's my brand.
— Xosha Roquemore
You have competition all over the world, not only in football, in normal life, too. Everyone fights for his place, but in the end, we have many games to play, and everybody is going to play games.
— Xherdan Shaqiri
Being homeschooled for half of my life allowed me to choose my own curriculum and find things I really enjoy, and that's kind of inspired me. I've always been intrigued in or interested in the topics I've been covering.
I'm looking at a dead event and trying to give it new life. In a sense, I'm a taxidermist.
In all big cities the style of life is the same. Same endless array of restaurants; same big museums with the usual suspects; same anonymity, which can be thrilling when you're young but which I found got tiresome.
The whole world is determined by trade - which is really the blood of the world. The driving force is everyone's desire to have a better life. How? By consuming. For countries, the 'Holy Grail' is economic growth.
Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.
— Yanis Varoufakis
I want to be best golfer in the world. But I feel like golf is not everything in my life, but I want to keep doing it, keep working hard, do the best I can on the tour and give back to the tour.
My brother's death picked up my life and put it down somewhere else. I had an image of myself in my mind as a working artist, and when he died, all of that changed.
We all should face some failures in life and learn from them. We should accept it and move on.
— Yami Gautam
Human life is truly a short affair. It is better to live doing the things that you like.
My name means 'sunrise of life.'
The Israeli media are very important to me. I've been part of them and they a part of me all my adult life.
My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.
— Yahoo Serious
I never intended on starting a charity; I never intended on cancer, health, and wellness becoming my life.
I'm pretty sure my mom is the only person on the planet who thinks that she got cancer so that I could find my calling in life, but as I started to build this company, all my years of useless education, random jobs, and weird interests merged into this serendipitous moment.
Look at the Prius. It's a nerd car. Yeah, you're being environmentally friendly, but your dating life is gonna suck.
I feel there is a big sense of accomplishment and achievement and self worth through what you do no matter what the job, no matter what you decide to dedicate your life to.
— Xochi Birch
Without video games, I don't think I'd be where I am today with anything else in life.
— Xavier Woods
I really love hip hop. My cousin Nas came out with an album 'Life Is Good,' and I love that album, but I also love Maroon 5.
'Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write.
The Rio Earth Summit in 1992 changed my life completely, turning me into an activist. From the air, you see things you can't see from the ground - you really understand the impact of man, even in a place you know well. My work is meant to convince people we can no longer live like this.
To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
My first encounter with Marx's writings came very early in life, as a result of the strange times I grew up in, with Greece exiting the nightmare of the neofascist dictatorship of 1967-74.
I had to skydive for the movie and I was terrified. Like everybody, I thought it was going to be one of those experiences that changes your life. It didn't.
— Yancy Butler
It would be easier for people to grasp that gender, sex, and sexual orientation are different things if we had as much imagination in real life as we do when we are making our movies.
There is failure in every industry; there is failure in every step. It's just that we are working in an industry where everything is just out there; that is why it looks so magnified. But failure is a part of life.
When confronted with two alternatives, life and death, one is to choose death without hesitation.
In life, you have ups and downs, but you should never give up. You should always try to get ahead.
Intellectuals are people who manage the world in their head. They look at life and try to see some kind of truth, and if they cannot find it, they attempt to create it.
I thought I was an old soul, and that I knew life, but then starting the real life, I figured I am completely new.
One of the most beautiful experiences our family shared was feeling the love and bond that came to life when my mother was battling her ovarian cancer. In a way, it brought our family together and opened up relationships and a closeness that was not felt before her diagnosis.
I did 'XXX: State of the Union' with Ice Cube because he and Samuel L. Jackson are some of favorite inspirations in life.
Once you mature you start wanting different things out of life and wanting different things for yourself.
What we now face is the contradiction between unbalanced and inadequate development and the people's ever-growing needs for a better life.
— Xi Jinping
