- Minority
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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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- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like I've set the bar fairly high, and I want to keep living up to that bar.
- Horse
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was living in the projects, I had a mop stick for my horse. I wanted to be Gene Autry or Roy Rogers, so I would ride my mop through the projects.
- Glamorous
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- Nov 07, 2020
This field is not necessarily glamorous, nor does it often produce immediate results, but it seeks to increase our basic understanding of living processes.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are paying the price for living longer, collecting degenerative diseases along the way. Cancer is only one. Others are heart and brain diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinsons.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.
- Feelings
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having a dream, living that dream, losing that dream, dreaming again and then having that dream come true again is one of the greatest feelings ever because I'm stronger.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know of a soul who packed more living into 72 years than Charles Lindbergh did.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
- Nov 07, 2020
To be fair, I don't think it's a plague to say I have the misfortune of making movies for a living.
- Remember
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm hopeful that Israelis can go to Ramallah whenever they want and see how the people are living.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020