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Living Quotes
"To feel today what one felt yesterday isn't to feel - it's to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today's living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost."
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"Never again should Ghanaians have to resort to dubious means to get to, or live in, foreign lands, simply to make a living."
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"I'm much more interested in living specific experiences in films."
186
"I can tell you where my Tonys are. They're in a beautiful place in my living room, in a glass cabinet."
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"Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts."
89
"Nobody got where they are today by living for tomorrow."
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"Prince decided to move from Minneapolis to Toronto. Jimmy Jam told me that they were living there now."
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"TV tends to look for the living equivalents of squeaky-clean Kens and Barbies, but with my dial I'm more like Ken's dirty old uncle."
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"Everyone should have a philosophy for living better."
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"If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively."
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"It's ungrateful to be wishing you were doing something else at the moment you are living. You haven't lived in the moment that you are really living, you are wishing you were somewhere else."
60
"You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming."
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"I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too."
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"It is deeply shocking and incomprehensible to me that despite volumes of documentation and living witnesses who can attest to the horrors of the Holocaust, there are still those who would deny it."
56
"I'm not living for when I have a Number One record or when I make a million trillion dollars. I'm not doing this to get somewhere else. I'm doing it because I'm doing it.'"
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"I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow."
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"Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever."
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"I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well."
54
"Ward Churchill might be more valuable to the opponents of the academic left employed than unemployed. Above all, he can serve as a living window into the intellectual, moral, and political bankruptcy of the left."
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"Texas, to be respected must be polite. Santa Anna living, can be of incalculable benefit to Texas; Santa Anna dead, would just be another dead Mexican."
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"I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap."
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"The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines."
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"Living in a tower, however secure it may feel, is hardly a social attribute."
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"To me, there is spirit in a reed. It's a living thing, a weed, really, and it does contain spirit of a sort. It's really an ancient vibration."
50
"Now, I'm the only living member of that group. There was the six of us originally and they're now all gone."
50
"It is absolutely imperative that we protect, preserve and pass on this genetic heritage for man and every other living thing in as good a condition as we received it."
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"You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living."
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"For eons, humans have struggled to find less destructive ways of living together."
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