- 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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- Constitution
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Constitution is a total living document that can change quite a bit.
- Ale
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- Nov 07, 2020
By modernizing the process of food preservation, Birdseye nationalized and then internationalized food distribution... facilitated urban living and helped to take people away from the farms... and greatly contributed to the development of industrial-scale agriculture.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my mid 30's, after a decade or so of giving full time to the music thing and finding myself with about $10 in the bank and no assets other than my musical equipment, I realized I needed to get serious about making a living.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are things that I love in Iranian cinema and things that I don't. In Iranian cinema, you have to use metaphor because you are living under a dictatorship.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Couldn't imagine any other way of living, outside of books, outside my work. Which doesn't mean I am not interested in other things, of course - I am interested in many things. But the center, the crux, is always literature.
- Phone
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- Nov 07, 2020
I lived in the studio apartment that I bought for four years before I bought it in 1989, so I was already in it. I began living there in 1985, so I've had the same address and phone number since then.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself.
- Husband
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first experiments on the biological properties of radium were successfully made in France, with samples from our laboratory, while my husband was living.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
The objective of cleaning is not just to clean, but to feel happiness living within that environment.
- Normal
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents had a normal life in Russia and they could have easily kept living a normal life, working and raising a child in Russia.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did a lot of commercials starting in about '75, yeah. Well, not 'a lot'; I never was a big old commercial gal, but I made a good living. I didn't immediately make 'a living' at commercials; the first year I made maybe a living was about '80. I had a great year in '85. I had a nice little supplement.
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- Nov 07, 2020