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"Now, wages in the automobile industry are made up of two components, what we call base rates and the cost of living factor which is fed in by the operation of the escalator."

"Now, wages in the automobile industry are made up of two components, what we call base rates and the cost of living factor which is fed in by the operation of the escalator."

Leonard Woodcock, American Celebrity

Living, Now, Wages

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"The cost of living has gone up another dollar a quart."

"The cost of living has gone up another dollar a quart."

W. C. Fields, American Comedian

2

"It's been a misery for me, living with Christine Keeler."

"It's been a misery for me, living with Christine Keeler."

Christine Keeler, English Model

2

"I did all kinds of things in order to earn a living."

"I did all kinds of things in order to earn a living."

Alan Hovhaness, American Composer

2

"We might as well die as to go on living like this."

"We might as well die as to go on living like this."

Charlie Chaplin, English Actor

2

"Comrades - We are living in momentous times."

"Comrades - We are living in momentous times."

James Larkin, Irish Activist

2

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

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

Ronald Blythe, British Writer

2

"I wouldn't say Malkovich is totally insane, but he's not living in the real world. He's living in his world, which is a fine world to live in apparently."

"I wouldn't say Malkovich is totally insane, but he's not living in the real world. He's living in his world, which is a fine world to live in apparently."

Martha Plimpton, American Model

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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."

"He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses."

Horace, Roman Poet

2

"I had always intended to make a living out of playing blues. But I never admitted it to myself. I don't suppose I could have given a logical reason for it ever becoming possible to do so."

"I had always intended to make a living out of playing blues. But I never admitted it to myself. I don't suppose I could have given a logical reason for it ever becoming possible to do so."

Alexis Korner, English Musician

2

"For eons, humans have struggled to find less destructive ways of living together."

"For eons, humans have struggled to find less destructive ways of living together."

Margaret J. Wheatley, American Writer

2

"I'm not saying that there's anything better than mated bliss at its best, but I'm saying that living alone is as good in its own way. But we haven't quite given ourselves permission to recognize that."

"I'm not saying that there's anything better than mated bliss at its best, but I'm saying that living alone is as good in its own way. But we haven't quite given ourselves permission to recognize that."

Barbara Feldon, American Actress

2

"The most important phase of living with a person is respect for that person as an individual."

"The most important phase of living with a person is respect for that person as an individual."

Millicent Carey McIntosh, American Educator

Living, Respect

2

"I'm tired of living in a police state."

"I'm tired of living in a police state."

L. Neil Smith, American Writer

Living, Police, State

2

"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."

"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."

Alice Cooper, American Musician

2

"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."

"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, American Artist

Living, Meaning

2

"I'm Andrea Thompson, and unless you've been living in a cave, you probably already know that."

"I'm Andrea Thompson, and unless you've been living in a cave, you probably already know that."

Andrea Thompson, American Actress

2

"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."

"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, American Writer

Living, Reality, Writing

2

"We cannot put off living until we are ready."

"We cannot put off living until we are ready."

Jose Ortega y Gasset, Spanish Philosopher

2

"I finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to New York."

"I finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to New York."

Mose Allison, American Musician

2

"If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening."

"If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening."

Sting, British Musician

Living, Writing

2

"I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on."

"I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on."

David Bowie, English Musician

Living, Man, Potential

2

"If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it - and I have the tapes to prove this - it's not going to be as good as doing the same piece in front of an audience."

"If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it - and I have the tapes to prove this - it's not going to be as good as doing the same piece in front of an audience."

Dave Van Ronk, American Musician

Living, Practice

2

"I also like flyfishing - maybe I would have figured a way to make a living out of that?"

"I also like flyfishing - maybe I would have figured a way to make a living out of that?"

Nigel Dennis, British Writer

2

"I am a babe for a living."

"I am a babe for a living."

Gabrielle Reece, American Athlete

2

"It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living."

"It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

Living, Jean Jacques Rousseau

2

"We later moved to Rome, where I am presently living."

"We later moved to Rome, where I am presently living."

Grazia Deledda, Italian Writer

2

"I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing."

"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, German Artist

Living, Mind, World

2

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

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

Marc Maron, American Entertainer

2

"They don't know they're living in a glass house."

"They don't know they're living in a glass house."

Douglas Wilson, American Entertainer

2

"To dream the future is much more better than to regret the past.But the best of all, to live in the present life with all of your power."

"To dream the future is much more better than to regret the past.But the best of all, to live in the present life with all of your power."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Living, Future, Power, Truth, Inspirational

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"Working is living to me."

"Working is living to me."

Mikhail Baryshnikov, American Dancer

2

"I believe in living today. Not in yesterday, nor in tomorrow."

"I believe in living today. Not in yesterday, nor in tomorrow."

Loretta Young, American Actress

Living, Today, Tomorrow, Yesterday

2

"Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system."

"Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system."

Bruce Lee, American Actor

Living, Man, Style

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"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."

"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Living, Selfishness, Wishes

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"One more dance along the razor's edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today."

"One more dance along the razor's edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today."

Robert Jordan, American Author

Living, Life, Death, Joy, Moment

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"Having a job does not mean living."

"Having a job does not mean living."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Living, Job, Purpose, Value

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"Life is not about getting everything right, as much as it's about working to live right."

"Life is not about getting everything right, as much as it's about working to live right."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

Living, Life, Truth, Wisdom, Power

1

"Even more important maybe, or equally more important at least, is they don't have to scrap for a living."

"Even more important maybe, or equally more important at least, is they don't have to scrap for a living."

David Talbot, American Journalist

1

"I've never considered myself to be working for a living; I've enjoyed myself for a living instead."

"I've never considered myself to be working for a living; I've enjoyed myself for a living instead."

John Mills, British Actor

1

"Living is abnormal."

"Living is abnormal."

Eugene Ionesco, French Dramatist

1

"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."

"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."

Agatha Christie, English Writer

1

"Living in the projects helped me with this role."

"Living in the projects helped me with this role."

Joe Pantoliano, American Actor

Living, Projects

1

"Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once."

"Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once."

Audrey Hepburn, Belgian Actress

Living, Thinking

1

"At thirteen, when I arrived in Hong Kong after leaving China, I made a living by working in a restaurant."

"At thirteen, when I arrived in Hong Kong after leaving China, I made a living by working in a restaurant."

Martin Yan, Chinese Celebrity

1

"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."

"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."

Imogen Cunningham, American Photographer

Living, Portraits

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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."

"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."

Philip Glass, American Composer

Living, Traditions

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"We have to be living models."

"We have to be living models."

Jerome Myers, American Artist

1

"The dead governs the living."

"The dead governs the living."

Auguste Comte, French Sociologist

1

"You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by."

"You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by."

Sam Shepard, American Playwright

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