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Living Quotes
"Never again should Ghanaians have to resort to dubious means to get to, or live in, foreign lands, simply to make a living."
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"Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts."
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"To feel today what one felt yesterday isn't to feel - it's to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today's living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost."
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"I'm much more interested in living specific experiences in films."
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"I can tell you where my Tonys are. They're in a beautiful place in my living room, in a glass cabinet."
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"The value of tolerance is central to living in today's world - especially in diverse places like the Bronx."
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"It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly."
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"I've always felt that there's a point where a piece seems to be alive, that is, living. And that's the point where I know the composition is finished."
"To me, there is spirit in a reed. It's a living thing, a weed, really, and it does contain spirit of a sort. It's really an ancient vibration."
"Nobody got where they are today by living for tomorrow."
"Unless something real cool comes along, I will probably be doing features, so long as I can make a living doing that. Otherwise, I will do another show."
"We're living proof that nice guys always finish last."
"I've seldom seen a horny player walk into a bar and not let out exactly what he did for a living."
"I'll never get used to living without Mo, but the painful things that surround what happened to him aren't so painful any more-not so raw or so new."
"All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected."
"There are many more serial killers living outside the prison walls than inside."
"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."
"We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part."
"Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing."
"Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin."
"In Paris, it used to feel like you were living in a museum. As beautiful as it was, it's still limited. But here you have just everything."
"What I did for a living for so many years separated who I was from what I did."
"I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater."
"Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt."
"Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world."
"I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living."
"I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own."
"There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live."
"When we got down from the ambulances there were sharp cracks about us as bursts of shrapnel splashed down upon the Town Hall square. Dead soldiers lay outside and I glanced at them coldly. We were in search of the living."
"The dominant invades the entire picture, as it were. In this way I seek to individualize the color, because I have come to believe that there is a living world of each color and I express these worlds."
"Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?"
"I am very grateful to make my living doing what I would do for free."
"Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years. So even if I was on the right track, I could be living in the wrong century."
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