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Living Quotes
"I don't get to sleep when I'm in New York. Really. I'm living on adrenaline."
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"Ideologies do not map the complete living processes of a World."
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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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"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."
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"All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former."
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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 at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent."
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"The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young."
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"Raising the minimum wage means raising the living wage - and that's good news for Ohio."
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"Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing."
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"I don't think that's changed at all. I think there are a thousand stocks out there that could make you rich, totally independent of what you do for a living."
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"Teenagers who are never required to vacuum are living in one."
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"I wasn't satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement."
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"Storytelling is not what I do for a living - it is how I do all that I do while I am living."
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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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"There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live."
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"The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing."
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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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"We're living proof that nice guys always finish last."
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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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"I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater."
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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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"Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer."
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"I've always felt that there's a point where a piece seems to be alive, that is, living. And that's the point where I know the composition is finished."
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"I was just thinking of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe and how young they were when they died. I would like to be a pop icon who survives. I would like to be a living icon."
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"There's no point in living in an alternate reality."
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"Living in the fishbowl is hard enough without worrying about a Secret Service that can't keep mum."
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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."
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"Give it up for Ray Charles and his beautiful legacy. And thank you, Ray Charles for living."
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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."
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"An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures."
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"Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt."
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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."
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"It's been a misery for me, living with Christine Keeler."
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