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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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- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our officials want nothing more than to be at the top of their professional game and make the correct call. That's what they do; that's their living, that's their pride, that's their joy. They don't achieve that because they happen to be human.
- Maybe
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even more important maybe, or equally more important at least, is they don't have to scrap for a living.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a drummer living in Los Angeles in 1990. I had finished music school and was playing with a band. It wasn't going as well as it should have been.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that filmmaking is a brilliant thing to do - be doing - for a living.
- Listening
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- Nov 07, 2020
Film becomes a living organism. After awhile, it begins to tell you what it needs, and you're usually best listening.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I retired when the Supreme Court rose for the summer recess in 2009, and a couple of weeks later I drove north from Washington with no regrets about the prior 19 years or about the decision to try living a more normal life for whatever time might remain.
- Nov 07, 2020
There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
In most of the stuff that I've done over the years as a sideman, I wasn't really a session musician, because to me, a session musician is a guy who makes his living in the studio, and I never really did that.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Viruses have to live somewhere. They can only replicate in living creatures. So, when the Ebola virus disappears between outbreaks, it has to be living in some reservoir host, presumably some species of animal.
- Kiss
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- Nov 07, 2020
Central to living a life that is good is a life that's forgiving. We're creatures of contact, regardless of whether we kiss or we wound.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not go outdoors... As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of living in New York City is indoors. You want greenery? Order the spinach.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020