Living On Quotes - Page 3

• Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living on or below the poverty line is almost the same.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Kings, Children, Class

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• Living on a planet of fixed size requires compromise, and while we are the only party capable of negotiating, we are not the only party at the table. We've never claimed more, and we've never had less.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Party, Tables, Size

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• I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.

  David Bowie

  Men, Demise, Stones

  Song: Quicksand, Album: Hunky Dory, 1971

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• I don't know about living on an automatic pilot, but I've had times where I've decided to just test myself and my mettle, and for no good reason other than it's what life is. Even before I was acting, I had, like, one day in high school I decided to just show them my pajamas, just for no good reason.

  Will Ferrell

  School, One Day, Acting

  Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. November 08, 2006.

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• I was about 26 or 27 and it was imperative that I make a living right away and it's hard to make a living on stage, so I started in television and film.

  David Duchovny

  Living Right, Television, Film

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• You are in integrity when the life you are living on the outside matches who you are on the inside.

  Alan Cohen

  Integrity, Who You Are

  Alan Cohen (2012). “Enough Already: The Power of Radical Contentment”, p.72, Hay House, Inc

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• Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being gloomy. We've spent too long trying to cheer ourselves up by spending money on brightly coloured things we don't really need. We've stopped using our imaginations.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Cheer, Turkeys, Long

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• If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.

  Jimmy Carter

  Memorable, Dollars, Benefits

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• I haven't isolated myself. I am not living on a yacht somewhere. I am not tucked away or behind a gate somewhere. I am not flying on a private plane. I am going to the airport, I am with people, some of the interactions are good, some of them are not so good, but it keeps me in touch with being, you know, part of society.

  Nicolas Cage

  Airports, People, Flying

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Marriage, Reality, Hands

  "Cardinal Ratzinger on Laicism and Sexual Ethics". zenit.org. November 19, 2004.

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• When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the site of one of the greatest crimes in human history.

  Albert Camus

  Character, Wonder, Crime

  Albert Camus (1957). “The fall”, Vintage

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• I am a dreamer. Seriously, I'm living on another planet.

  Eva Green

  Dream, Dreamer, Planets

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• I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. And by the grace of God, I will.

  Edward Everett Hale

  Grace, Making A Difference, Charity

  "Personal Quote/ Did you know?". www.imdb.com.

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• I followed the same diet for 20 years, eliminating starches, living on salads, lean meat, and small portions.

  Gene Tierney

  Years, Meat, Salad

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• A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wise, Book, Reading

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.24, Yale University Press

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• I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.

  Barbra Streisand

  Echoes, Sound, Brooklyn

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• I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap.

  Robert Smith

  Thinking, Rocks, Rock N Roll

  Spin magazine, 1987.

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• Growing up I always felt like I was living on the other side of the tracks. I knew the people on the other side had more resources, more money, happier families.

  Howard Schultz

  Growing Up, People, Track

  "Starbucks' Howard Schultz on how he became coffee king". www.mirror.co.uk. August 5, 2010.

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• Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects in an inhospitable cave somewhere on the porous Pakistan-Afghan border.

  Salman Rushdie

  Believe, Men, Mountain

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• I told Ersken, "Lately it's been like living on the knife's edge, never knowing which side I'll fall off on" Ersken clapped me on the shoulder as we stepped into the street. "Cheer up, Beka. Maybe you were going to fall off that razor's edge before, but not today," he said, as good humored as always. "Today we're doing to jump.

  Tamora Pierce

  Cheer, Fall, Knives

  Tamora Pierce (2012). “Beka Cooper: The Hunt Records”, p.524, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• I did not feel 'evil' when I wrote advertisements for Puerto Rico. They helped attract industry and tourists to a country which had been living on the edge of starvation for 400 years.

  David Ogilvy

  Country, Years, Evil

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• That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb.

  Kathy Mattea

  Pain, Joy, Earth

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• I don't believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person, and don't judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free.

  Angelina Jolie

  Inspirational, Positive, Hurt

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• The capacity for people to kid themselves is huge. Living on illusions or delusions, and the re-establishing of these illusions or delusions requires a big effort to keep them from being seen through. But a very old idea is at work behind our current state of affairs: enantiodromia, or the Greek notion of things turning into their opposite.

  James Hillman

  Kids, Opposites, Ideas

  "America and the Shift in Ages: An Interview with Jungian James Hillman". Interview With Pythia Peay, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 26, 2011.

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• If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed. Apart from a few starry-eyed poets or monks living on a mountaintop somewhere, however, we all have expectations. We not only have them, we need them. They fuel our dreams, our hopes, and our lives like some super-caffeinated energy drink.

  Tonya Hurley

  Dream, Expectations, Energy

  Tonya Hurley (2012). “Ghostgirl: Homecoming”, p.10, Hachette UK

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