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"I started earning a living as a poet rather early on."
Wislawa Szymborska
"I started earning a living as a poet rather early on."
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"All I ever intended was to make a living at what I do. Everything I've achieved since then is above and beyond."
Shania Twain
"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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"We cannot put off living until we are ready."
"We cannot put off living until we are ready."
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"Gaza has 1.2 million Palestinians living in crowded places and the resistance will be strong."
Ahmed Yassin
"Gaza has 1.2 million Palestinians living in crowded places and the resistance will be strong."
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"Without question, the material world and your everyday needs distract you from living meaningfully."
Menachem Mendel Schneerson
"Without question, the material world and your everyday needs distract you from living meaningfully."
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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."
Audrey Hepburn
"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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"Real living is living for others."
Bruce Lee
"Real living is living for others."
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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?"
Jackie Kennedy
"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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"I guess it beats throwing trash for a living."
Joel Coen
"I guess it beats throwing trash for a living."
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"Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system."
Bruce Lee
"Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system."
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"There is no living with thee, nor without thee."
Marcus Valerius Martial
"There is no living with thee, nor without thee."
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"Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer."
Michelangelo Antonioni
"Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer."
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"And living in Australia I am relatively well off."
Peter Garrett
"And living in Australia I am relatively well off."
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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."
David Ogilvy
"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."
John Newcombe
"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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"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."
Allan Sherman
"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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"A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed."
John F. Kennedy
"A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed."
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"I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on."
David Bowie
"I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on."
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"There may be the kinds of things that you may find interesting, but then there's also the practical reality of needing to make a living and this is what you have to choose from."
Jeffrey Jones
"There may be the kinds of things that you may find interesting, but then there's also the practical reality of needing to make a living and this is what you have to choose from."
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"Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living."
Harold MacMillan
"Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living."
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"In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead."
Stephen Gardiner
"In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead."
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"I imagine that yes is the only living thing."
e. e. cummings
"I imagine that yes is the only living thing."
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"I don't mourn the dead. I mourn the living."
Stephen Evans
"I don't mourn the dead. I mourn the living."
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"Better a living beggar than a buried emperor."
Jean de La Fontaine
"Better a living beggar than a buried emperor."
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"What I did for a living for so many years separated who I was from what I did."
Christy Turlington
"What I did for a living for so many years separated who I was from what I did."
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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."
Andrew Wiles
"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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"I was definitely living fast. I was working, traveling a lot, playing. I didn't stop. It all became unbalanced."
Kate Moss
"I was definitely living fast. I was working, traveling a lot, playing. I didn't stop. It all became unbalanced."
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"The good die young, because they see it's no use living if you have got to be good."
John Barrymore
"The good die young, because they see it's no use living if you have got to be good."
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"All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former."
James Madison
"All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former."
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"The best thing about modern living is anaesthesia."
Meg Ryan
"The best thing about modern living is anaesthesia."
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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."
Vince McMahon
"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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"Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?"
Nicholson Baker
"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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"Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin."
John von Neumann
"Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin."
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"Mourn for me rather as living than as dead."
Aeschylus
"Mourn for me rather as living than as dead."
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"If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening."
Sting
"If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening."
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"May you live every day of your life."
Jonathan Swift
"May you live every day of your life."
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"And the 90% they are not is what I do for a living."
Martin Landau
"And the 90% they are not is what I do for a living."
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"I believe in living today. Not in yesterday, nor in tomorrow."
Loretta Young
"I believe in living today. Not in yesterday, nor in tomorrow."
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"I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living."
John D. Rockefeller
"I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living."
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"A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past."
Kenneth Tynan
"A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past."
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"I lived in the studio apartment that I bought for four years before I bought it in 1989, so I was already in it. I began living there in 1985, so I've had the same address and phone number since then."
Marilyn Hacker
"I lived in the studio apartment that I bought for four years before I bought it in 1989, so I was already in it. I began living there in 1985, so I've had the same address and phone number since then."
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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."
Winston Graham
"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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"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."
Jeremy Northam
"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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"I'm tired of living in a police state."
L. Neil Smith
"I'm tired of living in a police state."
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"Because of what I did when I was 10 years old, I'm not living from paycheck to paycheck, and I can do things because I want to do them."
Macaulay Culkin
"Because of what I did when I was 10 years old, I'm not living from paycheck to paycheck, and I can do things because I want to do them."
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"We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away."
Plutarch
"We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away."
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"What really grabs me about living in Tucson is the color beige."
Max Cannon
"What really grabs me about living in Tucson is the color beige."
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"They don't know they're living in a glass house."
Douglas Wilson
"They don't know they're living in a glass house."
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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."
Toba Beta
"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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"I guess we're living in a pretty sensitive world and there's nothing you can do about that."
Dominic Monaghan
"I guess we're living in a pretty sensitive world and there's nothing you can do about that."
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