- Forever
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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are now living on Internet time. It's a new territory, and the cyber equivalent of the Oklahoma land rush is on.
- Right
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years. So even if I was on the right track, I could be living in the wrong century.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I probably looked pretty conventionally successful as a 24-year-old getting paid $125,000 a year, plus bonus, wearing suits, and living in a Manhattan apartment. But I hated my job, I didn't admire the people I was working with, and I felt that I was becoming a smaller, less imaginative, less risk-taking, less likable version of myself.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.
- Framed
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- Nov 07, 2020
In tribal Botswana, I received some woven necklaces and a handmade bow with three poison arrows. It's framed and hanging on the wall in my living room and is, without a doubt, one of my favorite possessions.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like photography as a recording device. It's the best possible two-dimensional representation of 3D living things that we have.
- School
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- Nov 07, 2020
Queens Park was amateur, so you do not get paid. You need to make a living, and for the first few years, when I was in the youth side, it was fine because I was still at school.
- Exciting Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think the idea of homosexuality is really taboo any more. Our culture is evolving. This is an exciting time to be living.
- Powerful
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a fragile environment, we need to be aware of ourselves as members of a uniquely powerful species living among other species who are quite as interesting as we are but vulnerable to us because we are cleverer in more destructive ways.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe, I truly believe, that humans will be living off of this planet, at some point in the future. It's inevitable for us, and it seems like a reasonable and realistic progression for us as a human race. We won't last on this planet - not forever.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I lived in Beverly Hills for years. I always had a line, 'I hate the rich.' From what I witnessed after living there for 15 years, these people just don't raise their kids. I used to see the lineup of cars in front of the schools and it was all the nannies.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020