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Living Quotes
"Teenagers who are never required to vacuum are living in one."
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"I don't get to sleep when I'm in New York. Really. I'm living on adrenaline."
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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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"There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live."
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"I was a born troublemaker and might as well earn a living at it."
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"Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living."
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"Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world."
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"Even more important maybe, or equally more important at least, is they don't have to scrap for a living."
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"Ideologies do not map the complete living processes of a World."
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"It's really hard to make a living as a musician. It's almost impossible."
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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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"Raising the minimum wage means raising the living wage - and that's good news for Ohio."
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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."
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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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"And living in a metropolitan area which is ethnically diverse, our lives are very complicated, so our emotional experiences are going to be varied like that."
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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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"The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young."
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"An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures."
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"I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater."
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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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"I am more of a New Yorker than ever and just actually, sometimes I fantasize about living somewhere else, where it's maybe not quite so crowded or stressful, blah, blah, blah and after September 11th, I guess I could just not imagine living anywhere else."
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"I don't know how you prepare for something like that. I cannot imagine living in a fishbowl like that. I don't live here so I don't know it will be that bad anyway because I live in Paris and we don't have that sort of phenomenon there. So I don't know, we'll see what happens."
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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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"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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"You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by."
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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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"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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"Give it up for Ray Charles and his beautiful legacy. And thank you, Ray Charles for living."
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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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