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Living Quotes
"I was just thinking of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe and how young they were when they died. I would like to be a pop icon who survives. I would like to be a living icon."
"I don't think that's changed at all. I think there are a thousand stocks out there that could make you rich, totally independent of what you do for a living."
"You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living."
"I'm not living for when I have a Number One record or when I make a million trillion dollars. I'm not doing this to get somewhere else. I'm doing it because I'm doing it.'"
"I lived in the studio apartment that I bought for four years before I bought it in 1989, so I was already in it. I began living there in 1985, so I've had the same address and phone number since then."
"It's ungrateful to be wishing you were doing something else at the moment you are living. You haven't lived in the moment that you are really living, you are wishing you were somewhere else."
"Teenagers who are never required to vacuum are living in one."
"Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You've got to believe in the product."
"Even more important maybe, or equally more important at least, is they don't have to scrap for a living."
"I wasn't satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement."
"Now, I'm the only living member of that group. There was the six of us originally and they're now all gone."
"I am more of a New Yorker than ever and just actually, sometimes I fantasize about living somewhere else, where it's maybe not quite so crowded or stressful, blah, blah, blah and after September 11th, I guess I could just not imagine living anywhere else."
"You know, I eat, I ate pretty well anyway so, I'm basically living the same, I just curtailed the stupidity."
"I've never considered myself to be working for a living; I've enjoyed myself for a living instead."
"You actually can make it, no matter what. I truly am a firm believer in that. Eminem's living proof."
"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."
"It is absolutely imperative that we protect, preserve and pass on this genetic heritage for man and every other living thing in as good a condition as we received it."
"I normally live in Los Angeles, if you can call it normal living."
"I don't get to sleep when I'm in New York. Really. I'm living on adrenaline."
"To substitute Scripture for the self-revealing Spirit is to put the dead letter in the place of the living Word."
"Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once."
"Ideologies do not map the complete living processes of a World."
"All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible."
"I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved."
"If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave."
"At thirteen, when I arrived in Hong Kong after leaving China, I made a living by working in a restaurant."
"I've been a vegetarian for years and years. I'm not judgemental about others who aren't, I just feel I cannot eat or wear living creatures."
"I mean the whole thing about meditation and yoga is about connecting to the higher part of yourself, and then seeing that every living thing is connected in some way."
"Well, we're living in a material world, and I'm a material girl... or boy."
"And living in a metropolitan area which is ethnically diverse, our lives are very complicated, so our emotional experiences are going to be varied like that."
"A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted."
"I wasn't really living anywhere... I was just kinda hanging out. I would live from week to week in places."
"Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer."
"It's been a misery for me, living with Christine Keeler."
"Give me the comma of imperfect striving, thus to find zest in the immediate living. Ever the reaching but never the gaining, ever the climbing but never the attaining of the mountain top."
"Storytelling is not what I do for a living - it is how I do all that I do while I am living."
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