- Life
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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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- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could definitely see myself living back in Australia again. If I had a family, I could move back.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every day there is a compromise. Living with somebody requires a lot of understanding. But I love being married. I really love it.
- Nov 07, 2020
Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
Possessing things is not that interesting. Living in a grand environment to show myself and others that I have wealth has zero appeal.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was living in Paris, which is a very beautiful, very wonderful place, but a tight place as a city, a tight place culturally. Its people are very brilliant, thoughtful, the place functions, but it's a historical place in some ways, like a big museum.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am an African. I live there and my children live there, and as far as I understand, they intend to go on living there.
- Experiencing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to die with regrets. I like living and experiencing and feeling the whole lot.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not living in the past.
- Nov 07, 2020
Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?
- Ignore
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- Nov 07, 2020
We do have a problem in this country. You can either make a movie and ignore that, or you can acknowledge it and say, this is the water that we're living in. You know this - the movie lives in this - it's centered around this particular problem, and I chose to acknowledge it.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are other issues I have felt more emotionally connected to, like China, where I lived and worked for some time. I was living there when Tiananmen Square erupted.
- Identity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mark of a living thing is to be involved in opposites (impossibilities): the living cell that has to be continually adapting itself to stay alive, with its identity.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's all very well for us to sit here in the West with our high incomes and cushy lives, and say it's immoral to violate the sovereignty of another state. But if the effect of that is to bring people in that country economic and political freedom, to raise their standard of living, to increase their life expectancy, then don't rule it out.
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- Nov 07, 2020