- 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
- Comedy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I moved to Chicago when I was 28, and I wasn't completely idealistic about going to Second City and making a living from comedy, but I knew it would be great for the resume.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.
- Sex
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- Nov 07, 2020
For anybody living out their twenties, Sex and Career remain major topics: being sexy can help give you a career, and having a career can make others finally find you sexier.
- Hotel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had moved out of the Edison Hotel because I couldn't pay the bill and was living at the Lincoln Hotel, where I couldn't pay the bill either, but it was cheaper.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my 20s, I was a freelance writer with little money and living in a rabbit warren one-and-a-half-bedroom with a roommate.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing with me is, I'm both untidy and I hate mess. But I'm not untidy in communal spaces, like living rooms. My bedroom is havoc.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm still living at least five parallel lives, honestly! I wonder about it. I have no idea how that happens.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem with living in a fast-food nation is that we expect food to be cheap.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do feel like food should cost more, because we aren't paying farmers a living wage. It has to cost more.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I lived with my mom in a really small apartment. My bedroom was like in the living room. That's why I still love to sleep on couches now.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020