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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."
Mark Rothko
"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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"A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?"
Jane Wagner
"A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?"
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"Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind."
Catherine Drinker Bowen
"Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind."
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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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"This field is not necessarily glamorous, nor does it often produce immediate results, but it seeks to increase our basic understanding of living processes."
Aaron Klug
"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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"Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do."
"Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do."
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"For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few, but to live well belongs to all."
Lactantius
"For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few, but to live well belongs to all."
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"The strongest are those who renounce their own times and become a living part of those yet to come. The strongest and the rarest."
Milovan Djilas
"The strongest are those who renounce their own times and become a living part of those yet to come. The strongest and the rarest."
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"Unless something real cool comes along, I will probably be doing features, so long as I can make a living doing that. Otherwise, I will do another show."
Danny Masterson
"Unless something real cool comes along, I will probably be doing features, so long as I can make a living doing that. Otherwise, I will do another show."
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"There is a high cost for low living."
Edwin Louis Cole
"There is a high cost for low living."
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"The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate."
Ronald Blythe
"The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate."
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"The next thing that happened to me was that I, we, were living in Paris where I then grew up."
Kitty Carlisle
"The next thing that happened to me was that I, we, were living in Paris where I then grew up."
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"It's really hard to make a living as a musician. It's almost impossible."
Billy Joel
"It's really hard to make a living as a musician. It's almost impossible."
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"The value of tolerance is central to living in today's world - especially in diverse places like the Bronx."
Jose Serrano
"The value of tolerance is central to living in today's world - especially in diverse places like the Bronx."
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"I sit on my duff, smoke cigarettes and watch TV. I'm not exactly a poster girl for healthy living."
Lexa Doig
"I sit on my duff, smoke cigarettes and watch TV. I'm not exactly a poster girl for healthy living."
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"Then, all of a sudden, he stopped and nobody heard from him or got a response to orders. At this point Rod Walker looked him up and found he was living in a commune and seemed to be dropping out of the hobby."
Fred Davis
"Then, all of a sudden, he stopped and nobody heard from him or got a response to orders. At this point Rod Walker looked him up and found he was living in a commune and seemed to be dropping out of the hobby."
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"We are living in a world that is beyond controllability."
Ulrich Beck
"We are living in a world that is beyond controllability."
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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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"Yes, I always imagined living in other places."
Cornelia Funke
"Yes, I always imagined living in other places."
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"To live is shared by all, but not to be worthy of living."
Aurelius Prudentius
"To live is shared by all, but not to be worthy of living."
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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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"I'm living what I always wanted to do."
Bruce Boxleitner
"I'm living what I always wanted to do."
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"Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book."
Charles Kingsley
"Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book."
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"Born in a cellar... and living in a garret."
Samuel Foote
"Born in a cellar... and living in a garret."
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"I'm very intelligent. I'm capable of doing everything put to me. I've launched a perfume and want my own hotel chain. I'm living proof blondes are not stupid."
Paris Hilton
"I'm very intelligent. I'm capable of doing everything put to me. I've launched a perfume and want my own hotel chain. I'm living proof blondes are not stupid."
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"I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing."
Frank Auerbach
"I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing."
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"I'm not completely sure we aren't all living in a hallucination now."
Marc Maron
"I'm not completely sure we aren't all living in a hallucination now."
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"It might be arrogant to think that we're the only living creations in all of the solar systems that there are. Space is so vast."
Jeri Ryan
"It might be arrogant to think that we're the only living creations in all of the solar systems that there are. Space is so vast."
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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."
Jonathan Dimbleby
"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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"I'll never get used to living without Mo, but the painful things that surround what happened to him aren't so painful any more-not so raw or so new."
Robin Gibb
"I'll never get used to living without Mo, but the painful things that surround what happened to him aren't so painful any more-not so raw or so new."
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"There are many more serial killers living outside the prison walls than inside."
Pat Brown
"There are many more serial killers living outside the prison walls than inside."
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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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"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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"The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living."
W. H. Auden
"The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living."
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"This substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state of living matter, one physiological name which has become familiar, that of protoplasm."
Asa Gray
"This substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state of living matter, one physiological name which has become familiar, that of protoplasm."
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"When we got down from the ambulances there were sharp cracks about us as bursts of shrapnel splashed down upon the Town Hall square. Dead soldiers lay outside and I glanced at them coldly. We were in search of the living."
Philip Gibbs
"When we got down from the ambulances there were sharp cracks about us as bursts of shrapnel splashed down upon the Town Hall square. Dead soldiers lay outside and I glanced at them coldly. We were in search of the living."
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"The dominant invades the entire picture, as it were. In this way I seek to individualize the color, because I have come to believe that there is a living world of each color and I express these worlds."
Yves Klein
"The dominant invades the entire picture, as it were. In this way I seek to individualize the color, because I have come to believe that there is a living world of each color and I express these worlds."
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"Now, I'm the only living member of that group. There was the six of us originally and they're now all gone."
Martin Denny
"Now, I'm the only living member of that group. There was the six of us originally and they're now all gone."
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"I've been a vegetarian for years and years. I'm not judgemental about others who aren't, I just feel I cannot eat or wear living creatures."
Drew Barrymore
"I've been a vegetarian for years and years. I'm not judgemental about others who aren't, I just feel I cannot eat or wear living creatures."
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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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"It took me about eight years to put together the program that I have been living for twenty years."
Marilu Henner
"It took me about eight years to put together the program that I have been living for twenty years."
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"For a while I was living in New Orleans for like 4, 5 years. I had just come back to town."
Delta Burke
"For a while I was living in New Orleans for like 4, 5 years. I had just come back to town."
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"He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses."
Horace
"He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses."
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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."
Mark Kelly
"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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"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."
Larry David
"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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"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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"Real living is living for others."
Bruce Lee
"Real living is living for others."
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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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"How much more must this be so in my own case for I am conscious not only of the great names and achievements of those who have preceded me, but also of the living presence of many of my masters and teachers."
Cecil Frank Powell
"How much more must this be so in my own case for I am conscious not only of the great names and achievements of those who have preceded me, but also of the living presence of many of my masters and teachers."
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"Whenever I get frustrated, I tell myself, you could be working at a 7-Eleven right now, so never take for granted what you do for a living."
Shannen Doherty
"Whenever I get frustrated, I tell myself, you could be working at a 7-Eleven right now, so never take for granted what you do for a living."
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