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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love collecting market stuff in Mexico. I have an etagere built onto the wall of my living room, which has cubicles that are lit and filled with super inexpensive pottery. You see them in a new way; they become museum pieces.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prince decided to move from Minneapolis to Toronto. Jimmy Jam told me that they were living there now.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, no matter what I am or what I do for a living, I'm still, you know, the husband and the dad and the protector of the house, and I have to be conscientious about that.
- Architecture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Architecture is a living thing. If I want to leave something to the future, it has to be able to change - but retain something of the ethos that we built up over 50 years.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would say that we are living in an age that is increasingly spiritually blind and morally deaf. The man who does not shout is not going to be heard.
- Grad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Manifold subsequent experience has led to a truer appreciation and a more moderate estimate of the importance of the dependence of one living being upon another.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could never write about strange kingdoms. I could never do 'Harry Potter' or anything like that. Even when I did science-fiction, I didn't write about foreign planets and distant futures. I certainly never did fantasies about trolls living under bridges.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I can make a living as a writer, I can do anything.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have been maintaining a standard of living by putting things on the debt of the next generation.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living.
- Displeasure
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- Nov 07, 2020