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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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- Nov 07, 2020
President Obama's FCC Chairman, Julius Genachowski, has a reputation in D.C. of being a 'tepid' regulator. From reports of his net neutrality proposal, he's living up to that reputation.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of 'targets' to be destroyed one by one; but as a living, intelligent entity capable of acting and reacting.
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- Nov 07, 2020
At thirteen, when I arrived in Hong Kong after leaving China, I made a living by working in a restaurant.
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- Nov 07, 2020
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now, I'm the only living member of that group. There was the six of us originally and they're now all gone.
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the great things about working on C. elegans was the fact that it was transparent, and so when I first heard that seminar describing GFP, and realised, 'I work on this transparent animal, this is going to be terrific! I'll be able to see the cells within the living animal.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular, never-to-be-repeated experience.
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people in this country right now are living with multiple generations under one roof, struggling to make ends meet.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you.
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- Nov 07, 2020
At fourteen or fifteen, I decided to earn my living when I grew up playing drums made from wooden beer kegs and leading a group called Keg Brando and His Kegliners. We organized a little band, but it didn't last long and didn't make any money.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Living in areas with a high population density does not need to be synonymous with overcrowding. Manhattan has an extremely dense population and is considered by many to be a highly desirable place to live.
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- Nov 07, 2020