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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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For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few, but to live well belongs to all.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent two years living in London - I'd have stayed for ever if I could have got a work visa. It was there I started collecting vinyl and fell in love with the sounds of the 1970s.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Living courageously in your uniqueness is really important: just being completely yourself. I know that sounds really cliche, but just do what you want to do.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am from a family of artists. Here I am, making a living in the arts. It has not been a rebellion. It's as though I had taken over the family Esso station.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
I understand the power of the Internet, but I can't say that I'm there. I'm old-fashioned and living in a different century. I don't know. I just don't really understand the craze of it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm in professional wrestling, which is what I do for a living. I coordinate stunts. I memorize them.
- Glorification
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm from Norway, and when kids were reading comics, I was reading Icelandic and Norwegian sagas about the Vikings. The glorification of violence, their mentality, and their way of living - that was part of my own education growing up.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I make things up for a living. It would be pretty boring to just fictionalize real people.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Take it from me: I really love making things up, which is why I write fiction for a living.
- East Coast
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd rather have a real South Dakotan who has lived in this state and made her living here instead of someone with a fancy East Coast law degree any day.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not deny my German identity. But I also feel Swiss. Of my eight great-grandparents, seven were born Swiss. I have been living in Switzerland for more than 50 years.
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- Nov 07, 2020