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Living Quotes
"All I ever intended was to make a living at what I do. Everything I've achieved since then is above and beyond."
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"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."
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"What I did for a living for so many years separated who I was from what I did."
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"Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once."
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"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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"Gaza has 1.2 million Palestinians living in crowded places and the resistance will be strong."
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"Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You've got to believe in the product."
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"You know, I eat, I ate pretty well anyway so, I'm basically living the same, I just curtailed the stupidity."
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"It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living."
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"Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?"
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"To dream the future is much more better than to regret the past.But the best of all, to live in the present life with all of your power."
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"Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?"
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"If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave."
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"What really grabs me about living in Tucson is the color beige."
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"Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years. So even if I was on the right track, I could be living in the wrong century."
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"We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away."
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"It's absolutely fine to think of new ways of doing things, and I'm not just asking for the traditional reporter to look into our living rooms night after night."
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"All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected."
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"There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live."
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"At thirteen, when I arrived in Hong Kong after leaving China, I made a living by working in a restaurant."
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"Well, we're living in a material world, and I'm a material girl... or boy."
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"Give me the comma of imperfect striving, thus to find zest in the immediate living. Ever the reaching but never the gaining, ever the climbing but never the attaining of the mountain top."
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"Traditions are imploding and exploding everywhere - everything is coming together, for better or worse, and we can no longer pretend we're all living in different worlds because we're on different continents."
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"I would have loved to have met some former spies, but they don't readily advertise themselves unless they're not living in Moscow, and even then. I'm sure I've met some without realizing it."
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"So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash."
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