- Parents
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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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- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
Living off the grid and being kind of an outlaw brings a dangerous reality.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Finally, the ecological health of the Mississippi River and its economic importance to the many people that make their living or seek their recreation is based on a healthy river system.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Raising the minimum wage would be a positive step in reducing poverty, the humiliation of living in poverty, and dependence on public assistance.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
To my mind, forgetting is a risky strategy for living. Memory is essential to us. It is DNA. We need to remember, and we need to imagine. That's why we have books, writing, fiction.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
For years, I survived as an artist on grants and touring as a dancer with dance companies, and I was living underground like so many artists, hand-to-mouth and so forth. And I never had the power to make decisions.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
At Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, I started taking psychology courses. I was interested in the nature of the human mind, the structure itself, pathologies with which it is afflicted. I really intended to be a writer all along, but I needed to take a subject that I could make a living at, either teaching it or doing it.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I made a film about a person living with a disability. Those kinds of films are often about the disability, not who a person is.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I left home when I was 13. When I was 15, I was living in a youth hostel, and I was the 167-pound amateur wrestling champion.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been able to make a good living as a musician, but now it's time to do all the other stuff.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.
- Husband
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a freelance writer, and I work alone at a big desk in the living room of my apartment. There are many days when I don't utter a single word to anyone but my husband.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a litigation lawyer, working in downtown Toronto. I was successful, yet I was very unfulfilled. I had the sense that I really wasn't living according to my values, and I didn't have the passion or sense of mission I was looking for.
- Improvement
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- Nov 07, 2020