Living Quotes
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Living through the heat in Louisiana was awful.
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Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world.
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I spent two years living in London - I'd have stayed for ever if I could have got a work visa. It was there I started collecting vinyl and fell in love with the sounds of the 1970s.
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Classical pianist Awadagin Pratt. I first heard this eccentric and introverted performer when I was living in the Midwest. He was playing Brahms ballades - haunting.
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This is what I do for a living. It's not who I am as a human being.
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As soon as we can wrest from Nature the secret of the internal structure of the compounds produced by her, chemical science can then even surpass Nature by producing compounds as variations of the natural ones, which the living cell is unable to construct.
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I couldn't settle in Italy - it was like living in a foreign country.
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The manner of their living is very barbarous, because they do not eat at fixed times, but as often as they please.
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All my books are made up of other books. They're all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in fiction and I didn't have much actual living to draw on. I suspect a lot of other people's novels are like that, too, though they might be slower to talk about it.
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The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.
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You could say that we are living in an internally globalized country.
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I'm thrilled I can make a living doing something I enjoy.
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Living is an art, not a science.
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I would love to spend a year living in New York; I've wanted to do that since I was 18. I'll be really disappointed if I'm 50 and haven't done something like that.
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When I was a kid, we all knew who Niki Lauda was. He was a hero, a living legend in Germany. Everybody knows him.
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You just want to be able to have a nice career and make a living at it.
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If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.
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We don't beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully.
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I still get to preach 14, 15 times a year. But you have to make a living.
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You are a beautiful person, Doctor. Clearheaded. Strong. But you seem always to be dragging your heart along the ground. From now on, little by little, you must prepare yourself to face death. If you devote all of your future energy to living, you will not be able to die well. You must begin to shift gears, a little at a time. Living and dying are, in a sense, of equal value.
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Social Security, all public and no option, rescued older Americans from living their final years in poverty.
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Once something is memorable, it's living and you're using it. That to me is the foundation of a creative society.
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I could never understand why our lives felt like a struggle while those living off government largesse enjoyed trinkets that I only dreamed about.
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I certainly think it's really important that folks in the metropolitan area be able to meet the increased cost of living.
