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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."


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



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


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


"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."


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


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


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


"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'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.'"


"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."


"I've seldom seen a horny player walk into a bar and not let out exactly what he did for a living."


"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."


"No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you."


"It never ceases to amaze me that I get to do this for a living."


"The strongest are those who renounce their own times and become a living part of those yet to come. The strongest and the rarest."


"I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might he able to make a living in 1972."


"I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater."


"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 are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave."


"Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer."
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