- Good
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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
It can be a living hell to go through endless campus investigations. I've seen this go down, and there really is no winning once the accusation is made, even if the process provides formal vindication.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you get involved in music expecting to make a living out of it, then you've picked the wrong thing to do. That shouldn't really be in your mind.
- Bosnian
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sarajevo was this beautiful city, very cosmopolitan, multiethnic, full of wonderful people, artists and writers and poets and Serbs and Muslims and Croats, and living side by side. And then this medieval siege, and it was a medieval siege, came, and the Bosnian Serbs were on the hills lobbing in rockets and grenades and mortars.
- Coffee Table
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- Nov 07, 2020
My living room has an oak-wood floor, Persian carpets, floor-to-ceiling bookcases, a large ficus and large fern, a fireplace with a group of photographs and drawings over it, a glass-top coffee table with a bowl of dried pomegranates on it, and sofas and chairs covered in off-white linen.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Someone once told me that being in the closet is like living in a vertical casket. Perfect description.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
'On earth the living have much to bear;' the difference is chiefly in the manner of bearing, and my manner of bearing is far from being the best.
- Opera
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had the working class ethic. I wanted to make a living and there weren't many opportunities for an opera singer in Yorkshire, so I went onto the club circuit.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
What we want from art is whatever is missing from the lives we are already living and making. Something is always missing, and so art-making is endless.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never wanted to be defined by what I did for a living.
- Considerably
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that of our closest living relatives, the anthropoid apes. Whole groups of hominids with inferior brains could not win wars and were therefore exterminated.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first started writing, I was living in England and I had that uniquely English sense of sarcasm, which has definitely seemed to have left me. I am a naturalized American and my sensibility has become far more American.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm kind of a gypsy, so I love living out of a suitcase and going from place to place meeting people.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020