- 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
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was necessary to bluff the Japanese camp commanders, with whatever authority I could muster, that I had come officially to ensure that the surrender terms were being complied with and that living conditions for the POWs were being immediately improved.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we're at risk with our democracy. I think we're dealing with the most closed, imperialistic, nastiest administration in living memory. They even put Richard Nixon to shame.
- Professional
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel as though we're living in a time where there is very little distinction paid between the personal and the professional.
- Grandchildren
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our children and grandchildren are not going to have the same standard of living unless we educate that workforce.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
And so there I was living in California from Brooklyn, New York, and it was this whole new world for me and I was meeting vegetarians. I thought, let me try this vegetarian thing. I got really into that.
- Nov 07, 2020
Fortunately, I was still living in Los Angeles at the time. So I went out to World Gym and got a membership.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some say that AIDS came from the monkeys, and I doubt that because we have been living with monkeys from time immemorial, others say it was a curse from God, but I say it cannot be that.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jordan is the only Arab state that has provided citizenship to Palestinian refugees and integrated them. But something has to be done about the Palestinians living in refugee camps in Syria and Lebanon.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Neither does man have gills for living in a water environment; yet it is not sinful to explore the depths of the oceans in search of food or other blessings.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The protagonist in 'Deacon Blues' is a triple-L loser - an L-L-L Loser. It's not so much about a guy who achieves his dream but about a broken dream of a broken man living a broken life.
- Ecstasy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.
- Depiction
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- Nov 07, 2020