Living On Quotes - Page 5

• For many people it's Facebook, or sports on TV, whatever it is. I have my own demons that I battle. But whatever they are, you wish you could not do them. For most of us it's "I cannot get off Facebook." But imagine that your demon has you living on the street. I don't think those compulsions and obsessions are that different.

  Jess Walter

  Sports, Thinking, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I've always felt alone and isolated, and living on the West Coast, there's no poetry community out here, and if there is, it's really spread out - because it's LA, it's spread out.

  Victoria Chang

  Community, West Coast, Spread

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I would rather die on my feet than continue living on my knees.

  Emiliano Zapata

  Feet, Knees, Dies

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• If I had, say, a tall, amateur male lead living on the campus of a rural college (Six Years), the next book might feature a short, cop who lives in the heart of Manhattan (Missing You).

  Harlan Coben

  Book, Heart, College

  "Harlan Coben on "Fool Me Once"". Amazon Book Review Interview, www.omnivoracious.com. March 31, 2016.

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• As humans, we do get to choose what we eat, and when we choose to eat a plant, we are eating (i.e., harming) just that plant, plus indirectly whatever nutrients that plant consumed over its lifetime (and we are also harming whatever beings may have been living on that plant or who were injured or killed in the harvesting process). But when we eat an animal, we are eating not just that animal, but also indirectly all of the plants and other beings that that animal ate over its lifetime - those plants became the flesh that we eat.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, May, Flesh

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• In terms of any sacrifices at the time [of World War II], I was somewhat protected living on a small farm where there was food, different perhaps from living in a city environment. I know such things as gas rationing did exist, but it wasn't anything that interfered with my daily activity.

  Paul Smith

  War, Sacrifice, Daily Activities

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• There are so many messages and lessons that I have been taught that I would want to share with people. Perhaps one that is very present in my mind now is the concept that we are all living on this one tiny planet that we call Earth. It is very small and is not getting any bigger, but the amount of people living on this planet continues to grow at a rapid rate.

  Yanni

  People, Mind, Lessons

  "Yanni: A Global Inspiration". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 9, 2014.

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• I went from being married to living on my own in L.A., to having a new boyfriend and just being totally self-sufficient and super independent. It's awesome. I love it!

  Lindsey Vonn

  Independent, Self, Just Being

  "Lindsey Vonn: Life's on the Upswing and 'I Love It'". Interview with Elizabeth Leonard, people.com. August 29, 2013.

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• I am one of those people that believes that if I am going through something, somebody else out there among those billions of people living on this Earth is going through something similar, if not the same thing

  Yolanda Adams

  Believe, People, Earth

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• The gypsy in my soul is living on the road again, ... When I first started my career, I was on the road for about five or six years straight, not living anywhere. Thirty-three years later, I`ve come full circle.

  Maureen McGovern

  Years, Circles, Careers

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• People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain, they're somehow discovering reality, but of course that's just another fiction dreamed up by a TV producer.

  J. G. Ballard

  Rain, Reality, Thinking

  J. G. Ballard (2005). “Conversations”, Re/Search Publications

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• No one can predict whether the earth will be cooler or hotter next year, let alone do anything to change it. If you're afraid of global warming, turn off the lights when you leave the room - but don't participate in the corruption of science, don't scare our kids with unproven cataclysmic theories, and don't try to ban economic energy sources that people living on this planet depend upon today. And don't try to stop progress; it's the only hope the earth has of seeing clean industry, short of exterminating mankind.

  Doug Casey

  Kids, Light, Years

  "Doug Casey on Global Warming". Interview with Louis James, www.caseyresearch.com. October 7, 2009.

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• There are theoretical reformers at all times, and all the world over, living on anticipation.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Reform, World

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.106, Delphi Classics

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• People living on atolls like Tuvalu are among the world's most threatened populations.

  Enele Sopoaga

  People, World, Population

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Jeff [Koons] called me because he'd seen a portrait of David Bowie, at the beginning of the 80s - I've known Jeff for a long time - and he said, Greg, I want to look like a high-profile celebrity, living on the edge. I think that says it all.

  Greg Gorman

  Thinking, Long, Want

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• I am the representative of all the sick people and what they are doing to me is only the worst case right now, but there will be others. I am living on borrowed time anyway. I owe this part of my life to luck and modern medical science. But I can't imagine what the rest of it will be like if they won't let me use medical marijuana.

  Peter McWilliams

  Marijuana, Sick, People

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• The Alps are a simple folk, living on a diet of old shoes. And the Lord Alps those who alp themselves.

  Groucho Marx

  Simple, Shoes, Alps

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• When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, 'One of these days I'm going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.' That's all I've ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

  Mr. T

  Beautiful, Mother, Strong

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• Atoms are a relationship of energy. You are a relationship of energy interacting with another person who is another complex relationship of energy. We all exchange more than words with each other. . . We are made of the same substance as rocks and stars. .. We are an exotic cocktail living on this planet. .. We live in this universe which is a self-transcending reality

  Rob Bell

  Stars, Reality, Rocks

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• My pacifism came after I joined the army and was shipped over to Korea. There was a little one-room orphanage there called Song-do. There were 180 babies in there, and they were GI babies. The U.S. government would not acknowledge this, and the Korean government had nothing to do with them. They were living on a 100-pound bag of rice a month. Some of those kids, when they were old enough, would go out and shine shoes. They would show up at the gate of our compound to shine shoes, and you'd swear they were looking for their fathers.

  Utah Phillips

  Song, Baby, Father

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• I would not have any one adopt my mode of living on any account.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Accounts

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• In theory I can do almost anything; certainly I have been told how. In practice I do as little as possible. I pretend to myself that I would be quite happy in a hermit's cave, living on gruel, if someone else would make the gruel. Gruel, like so many other things, is beyond me.

  Margaret Atwood

  Practice, Littles, Would Be

  Margaret Atwood (1984). “Bluebeard's egg”

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• My parents grew up during the space race, and I think they imagined the future would be us living on moon bases and everyone has rocket shoes.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Moon, Thinking, Race

  "Sunday Geekersation: Brian K. Vaughan juggles comics, TV". Interview with Brian Truit, www.usatoday.com. August 04, 2013.

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• I would be happy living on a massive ranch in Montana and not seeing anyone except my friends and family.

  Nick Frost

  Family And Friends, Would Be, Montana

  The IGN Interview, www.ign.com. October 25, 2005.

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• We need to spread out now in the universe. I think in 100 years we'll be living on other planets.

  Neil Young

  Thinking, Years, Needs

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