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Living Quotes


"Never again should Ghanaians have to resort to dubious means to get to, or live in, foreign lands, simply to make a living."


"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."


"I'm much more interested in living specific experiences in films."


"I can tell you where my Tonys are. They're in a beautiful place in my living room, in a glass cabinet."


"Prince decided to move from Minneapolis to Toronto. Jimmy Jam told me that they were living there now."



"Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts."


"Nobody got where they are today by living for tomorrow."


"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."


"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."


"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.'"


"If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively."


"Everyone should have a philosophy for living better."


"I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too."


"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."



"Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"What really grabs me about living in Tucson is the color beige."


"Living in a tower, however secure it may feel, is hardly a social attribute."


"I had moved out of the Edison Hotel because I couldn't pay the bill and was living at the Lincoln Hotel, where I couldn't pay the bill either, but it was cheaper."


"The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines."


"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."


"I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow."


"I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap."


"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."


"For anyone who has that calling and is trying also to make a living at it, it is really hard."


"For eons, humans have struggled to find less destructive ways of living together."
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