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Living Quotes
"To me, there is spirit in a reed. It's a living thing, a weed, really, and it does contain spirit of a sort. It's really an ancient vibration."
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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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"No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you."
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"I was a born troublemaker and might as well earn a living at it."
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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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"In Paris, it used to feel like you were living in a museum. As beautiful as it was, it's still limited. But here you have just everything."
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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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"If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave."
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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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"It never ceases to amaze me that I get to do this for a living."
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"It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living."
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"I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own."
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"You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living."
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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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"Well, we're living in a material world, and I'm a material girl... or boy."
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"Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several volumes with nice nasty stories. I don't know."
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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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"I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap."
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"When we get together and rehearse, which is always living with each other, we always talk about what would make it better, what would mean more, what would say more. So we're always improving and growing."
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"Living in a small town, I knew everybody and everybody knew me."
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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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"Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living."
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"Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes."
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"It is deeply shocking and incomprehensible to me that despite volumes of documentation and living witnesses who can attest to the horrors of the Holocaust, there are still those who would deny it."
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"Raising the minimum wage means raising the living wage - and that's good news for Ohio."
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"Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship - and not as ends in themselves."
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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've seldom seen a horny player walk into a bar and not let out exactly what he did for a living."
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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 feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater."
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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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"Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer."
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"There's no point in living in an alternate reality."
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"The good die young, because they see it's no use living if you have got to be good."
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"For eons, humans have struggled to find less destructive ways of living together."
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