- Me
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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
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
I became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to turn to becoming a film critic to make a living.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
Living without hate for people is almost impossible.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an Indian, you feel easily connected with certain histories in places like Indonesia, where one sees, because of the presence of the Hindu-Buddhist past, Hindus still living there or Muslims performing rituals that are instantly familiar.
- Conquerors
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ordinary Muslims in Europe, who suffer from the demoralisation caused by living as perennial objects of suspicion and contempt, are far from thinking of themselves as a politically powerful, or even cohesive, community, not to speak of conquerors of Europe.
- Exalted
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- Nov 07, 2020
Living in a cultural milieu where the foreign writers most widely available and admired were Russian, I came very late to postwar American writers, and I had great trouble with the canonically exalted white male writers I tried first.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend to worry about the minutiae of life. But living in the mountains of Idaho and having retreated from fame, I am more in tune with life.
- Someone
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I would have had trouble living with someone who didn't know what it was like to be an actor.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Living in New York after 14 years, I'm such an outdoors kind of person. I love gardening and building things. I like restoring old furniture.
- Dark
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting is a hard way to make a living, and there's a kind of dark, somewhat seedy side to the whole aspect of fame and celebrity that's not really something I would want for my child - or want him to want, if that makes any sense.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Other players do not rib me for being the coach's son. They rib me more for living at home with my mum and dad.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tuition fees have formed part of a full-frontal assault on the living standards of a generation battered by a housing crisis, stagnating wages and slashed services.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
From a genuine living wage to a mass housebuilding programme and strong workers' and trade unions rights preventing a race to the bottom, our answers to the grievances that help drive anti-immigrant sentiment must be front and centre.
- Depress
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, there is some evidence that migration can slightly depress wages at the bottom end of the labour market, but that's an argument for a genuine living wage, for ensuring all workers are employed on the same terms and conditions, and for extending unionisation.
- Badger
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- Nov 07, 2020