- Love
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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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- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 19 or 20 years old, I wasn't making a living wrestling. I needed a full-time income.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
WeWork is working to create a world where people make a life and not just a living.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was living in a small town in Indiana working as a telemarketer and a vacuum salesman. I was really bad: the vacuums seemed to always be falling apart. Every time I did a demonstration, I'd say, 'This is the material the astronauts used on Apollo 13.' And no sooner had that come out of my mouth, something would malfunction.
- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it.
- Nov 07, 2020
I can't think of another place other than TV where a five-person sketch comedy group could make a living.
- Pride
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- Nov 07, 2020
In zombie horror, the juxtaposition of the calm world of the living and the menace of the undead inspires terror. In zombie comedy, like 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,' it is played for laughs.
- Nov 07, 2020
Social Security, all public and no option, rescued older Americans from living their final years in poverty.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the end of the 1970s, I was a young researcher at the Weizmann Institute with an ambitious plan to shed light on one of the major outstanding questions concerning living cells: the process of protein biosynthesis.
- Free State
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there should prove to be one real, living Free State Democrat in Kansas, I suggest that it might be well to catch him and stuff and preserve his skin as an interesting specimen of that soon-to-be-extinct variety of the genus Democrat.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent most of the Seventies living in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and most of the Eighties living in Stoke-on-Trent.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Honestly, I wish I could be a part of all the remakes of my father's films. But on second thought, I wouldn't want to be a part of any. The thought of being compared to him is unnerving. I'd rather do my films than live in the fear of living up to his standards.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020