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


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


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


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



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


"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."


"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."


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


"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."


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


"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.'"


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


"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."



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


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


"There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live."


"Everyone should have a philosophy for living better."


"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."


"The original Return of the Living Dead, I was attached to direct it, and I wrote the story. Production was delayed. In the meantime I went to London to do Lifeforce."


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


"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."


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


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


"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."
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