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Living Quotes


"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."


"A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?"


"This field is not necessarily glamorous, nor does it often produce immediate results, but it seeks to increase our basic understanding of living processes."



"Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do."


"The strongest are those who renounce their own times and become a living part of those yet to come. The strongest and the rarest."


"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."


"The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate."


"The next thing that happened to me was that I, we, were living in Paris where I then grew up."


"It's really hard to make a living as a musician. It's almost impossible."


"The value of tolerance is central to living in today's world - especially in diverse places like the Bronx."


"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."


"We are living in a world that is beyond controllability."


"We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away."


"To live is shared by all, but not to be worthy of living."


"So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash."


"I'm not completely sure we aren't all living in a hallucination now."


"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."


"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."


"There are many more serial killers living outside the prison walls than inside."


"I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living."


"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."


"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."


"Now, I'm the only living member of that group. There was the six of us originally and they're now all gone."


"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."


"It took me about eight years to put together the program that I have been living for twenty years."


"For a while I was living in New Orleans for like 4, 5 years. I had just come back to town."


"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."


"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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