- Money
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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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- Player
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was living my dream as a WNBA player.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started doing theatre, and that's when I really fell in love with the profession; I learned a lot. It felt a bit weird to go from living in New York on Broadway to university, so I kept putting it off. Then, eventually, I had to give up the place.
- Hip-Hop
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.
- Detailing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There were many years when I was hand-to-mouth and didn't know how I was gonna make rent. I've done every job under the sun, from busing tables, temping, and working in factories to SAT prep and detailing cars. So to be able to make a living where all I do is write is absolutely liberating.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
Making the Hall of Fame, would it be something that's gratifying because of what I've sacrificed? Sure. Baseball has been a big part of our lives. We've sacrificed our bodies. It's the way we made our living.
- Good Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
I make a good living selling hardback books through paper publishers, and I have many friends in the industry who will suffer as it changes, so on a personal level, the transition to digital isn't something I welcome wholeheartedly.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.
- Church
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- Nov 07, 2020
One area where American Jews have something to teach Israel is religious pluralism, something that living in a democracy with a separation between church and state has helped us fine-tune.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other. And living on the border between Mexico and the U.S. for so many years gave me a lot of insight into that.
- Essential Part
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we turn our back on the people of this country who need to work for a living, we shouldn't be here, to be honest, because that has to be an essential part of what we do to protect the country, from the standpoint of defense, protect workers and make sure they have jobs.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
- Ensure
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- Nov 07, 2020