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Living Quotes
"There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live."
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"For anyone who has that calling and is trying also to make a living at it, it is really hard."
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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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"I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well."
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"You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living."
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"If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave."
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"Well, we're living in a material world, and I'm a material girl... or boy."
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"Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living."
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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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"What I did for a living for so many years separated who I was from what I did."
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"I am very grateful to make my living doing what I would do for free."
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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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"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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"It's important to bring things back from the Space Station because, unlike somebody living at the house where the garbage truck comes by twice a week, they don't have that in space."
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"I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might he able to make a living in 1972."
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"I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living."
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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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"This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale."
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"When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the streets and occasionally I would see an alcove or something. And I'd think, that'll be good, that'll be a good spot for me when I'm homeless."
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"To live is shared by all, but not to be worthy of living."
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"It never ceases to amaze me that I get to do this for a living."
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"This field is not necessarily glamorous, nor does it often produce immediate results, but it seeks to increase our basic understanding of living processes."
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"I was a born troublemaker and might as well earn a living at it."
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"Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do."
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"Raising the minimum wage means raising the living wage - and that's good news for Ohio."
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"There are many more serial killers living outside the prison walls than inside."
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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."
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"I mean the whole thing about meditation and yoga is about connecting to the higher part of yourself, and then seeing that every living thing is connected in some way."
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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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