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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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"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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"It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living."
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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."
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"At thirteen, when I arrived in Hong Kong after leaving China, I made a living by working in a restaurant."
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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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"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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"You actually can make it, no matter what. I truly am a firm believer in that. Eminem's living proof."
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"Well, we're living in a material world, and I'm a material girl... or boy."
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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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"Living in a small town, I knew everybody and everybody knew me."
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"Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do."
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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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"There are many more serial killers living outside the prison walls than inside."
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"Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing."
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"I am very grateful to make my living doing what I would do for free."
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"If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave."
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"The next thing that happened to me was that I, we, were living in Paris where I then grew up."
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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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"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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"I'm not completely sure we aren't all living in a hallucination now."
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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."
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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."
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"Traditions are imploding and exploding everywhere - everything is coming together, for better or worse, and we can no longer pretend we're all living in different worlds because we're on different continents."
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"We are living in a world that is beyond controllability."
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"Most Sunday magazines, with the New York Times as an exception, are kind of sleepy, weekend service vehicles to move living room products."
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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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"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 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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"For anyone who has that calling and is trying also to make a living at it, it is really hard."
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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."
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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 used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own."
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