- Me
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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.
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- Buffalo
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- Nov 07, 2020
Economies of scale are a good thing. If we didn't have them, we'd still be living in tents and eating buffalo.
- Camera
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are so many ways to make a living that don't involve hiding in bushes opposite houses of 18-year-old girls with a camera in your hand.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although just being employed as an actor is a big thing, I'm not sure I'd be satisfied playing the same character for 30 years; it's not why I want to do this for a living.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
- Great Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting is a great way to make a living, especially when I consider what my alternatives were and probably still are. I mean, you are only making movies. It is a lot less pressure than being a surgeon; although it seemed like the only other thing that I was qualified for was manual labour.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Workers who come to the U.S. see their wages and their standard of living boosted sharply simply by crossing the border. That's a good thing, and one of the best arguments for immigration reform, even if you'll rarely hear a politician make it.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel lucky that I've been able to make a living from painting any idea that comes into my head.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's going on in this country? Unions stand against those trends. We've got to somehow insulate the robust American economy from this global economy that seems to want to devour our standard of living.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For many years I had heard about an underworld consisting of people who act out a vampire fantasy while I was living in New York. Fortunately for me there are also several books on the phenomena.
- Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020
All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.
- Kind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Be kind to the living.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like to do something involving jazz. But books are how I earn my living, and I'd like to stay with the horse I rode in on.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020