- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Living Quotes
On making a life, and making a living.
This set of living quotes includes a sharply critical political opinion, presented here strictly as the quote's own stated view about the administration it describes, alongside a separate observation about how thin the line has become between personal and professional life. Related reflections continue in our Life quotes.
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- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wondered to what extent people remained the same as they'd been when very young; if one peeled back the layers of living one would come to the know child.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jazz is such a living art form. It happens right in the moment. You weave a story by changing certain elements and components.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I really tried to do with Helen was make her show this sad side of her. She was married off at 16, was so young and living in this castle that can't leave because of how she looks, and married to a man she hates and three times her age.
- Gold
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up with a beautiful gold harp sitting in our living room. My older sister played it.
- Seeing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even without seeing the crickets, grasshoppers, cicadas and katydids, we hear them shrilling in this season and trust that they're the tiny living gargoyles entomologists claim.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Living with anyone for many years takes skill. To keep peace in the household, couples learn to adapt to one another, hopefully in positive ways.
- Nov 07, 2020
There's so much boldness in living life this way, and we did it all, and no one can take it away from us.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I moved to Kentish Town from Chelsea in 1983, partly because I had a lot of friends already living in the area and because it took an hour off the journey to my house in Suffolk. It has a villagey feel, and it's still a very mixed community, which I like.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without them, many deplorable acts would become impossibilities.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that any way of living that's based on the use of non-renewable resources won't last.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020