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• I always felt that making a living wasn't the easiest thing in the world, and I decided I was going straight ahead and try to be as uncomplicated as possible. The important thing in life is just living and loving.

  Doris Day

  Things In Life, Important, Trying

  Doris Day (2013). “The Doris Day Songbook”, p.1929, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• America touts itself as the land of the free, but the number one freedom that you and I have is the freedom to enter into a subservient role in the workplace. Once you exercise this freedom you’ve lost all control over what you do, what is produced, and how it is produced. And in the end, the product doesn’t belong to you. The only way you can avoid bosses and jobs is if you don’t care about making a living. Which leads to the second freedom: the freedom to starve.

  Tom Morello

  Jobs, Exercise, Land

  "Modern Happiness: Springsteen and the American Dream" by Craig Werner, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 24, 2012.

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• The problems you have as a novelist tend to have to do with making a living and trying to find ways to supplement the income you get from writing novels. For a lot of writers, that involves teaching. In my case, so far, I've been able to get by working in Hollywood with this TV stuff I've been doing. And it's very important, because my wife is a writer, too, and we don't have health insurance through any employer.

  Michael Chabon

  Teaching, Writing, Wife

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. November 22, 2000.

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• Capitalism is always in danger of inspiring men to be more concerned about making a living than making a life. We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to humanity-thus capitalism can lead to a practical materialism that is as pernicious as the materialism taught by communism.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wisdom, Men, Judging

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1964). “A Martin Luther King Treasury”

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• I was a loser, most concerned with making a living. It took me 30 years to understand... I had to reinvent a system, find a way out, and set some rules that could work for me and a few others. I guess in the end that's what we all are trying to do.

  Maurizio Cattelan

  Failure, Years, Trying

  "Killing Me Softly". Interview with Giancarlo Politi, www.flashartonline.com. July, 2008.

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• I played guitar. I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.

  Alan Arkin

  Couple, Guitar, Groups

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. August 2, 2006.

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• I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage and tangled Christmas tree lights. I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'. I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw some things back.

  Maya Angelou

  Yoga, Heart, Rainy Day

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• It's an unusual situation for me to be working and making a living.

  Martha Plimpton

  Unusual, Situation

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• I've always made a clear distinction between making a life and making a living.

  Robert Fulghum

  Distinction, Made, Clear

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• I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Mean, Bad Ass

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• Doing something you enjoy at times of your own choosing and making a living from it: now tell me, is that work?

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Enjoy

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2006.

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• The world is God's workshop; the raw materials are His; the ideals and patterns are His; our hands are "the members of Christ," our reward His recognition. Blacksmith or banker, draughtsman or doctor, painter or preacher, servant or statesman, must work as unto the Lord, not merely making a living, but devoting a life. This makes life sacramental, turning its water into wine. This is twice blessed, blessing both the worker and the work.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Blessed, Wine, Blessing

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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• If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living asking 'Do you want fries with that?'

  John Cleese

  Life, Would Be, Asking

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• Art is not to do with the practical side of making a living. It's to live a fuller human life.

  Henry Moore

  Art, Sides, Human Life

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• When I was in New York, I was making a living. We had a summer house and a car that I could put in a garage. That's something for a stage actor.

  William H. Macy

  Summer, New York, Car

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• In general in comedy, there are fewer people making a ton of money and a lot more people making a living. For me, the goal is just being able to make exactly the show I wanted to make.

  Nick Kroll

  People, Goal, Able

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Just to live in the country is a full-time job. You don't have to do anything. The idle pursuit of making a living is pushed to one side, where it belongs, in favor of living itself, a task of such immediacy, variety, beauty, and excitement that one is powerless to resist its wild embrace.

  E. B. White

  Country, Jobs, Tasks

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• Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating...too often fathers neglect it because they get so caught up in making a living they forget to make a life.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Powerful, Father

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• I think this is irresponsible preaching and very dangerous, and especially when it is slanted toward children, I think it's totally irresponsible, because I see nothing biblical that points up to our being in the last days, and I just think it's an outrageous thing to do, and a lot of people are making a living—they've been making a living for 2,000 years—preaching that we're in the last days.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Children, Biblical, Thinking

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• But this post-college world felt different from everything that had come before it; art was still central, but now everyone had to think about making a living too, and they did so with a kind of scorn for money except as it allowed them to live the way they wanted to live.

  Meg Wolitzer

  Art, College, Thinking

  Meg Wolitzer (2013). “The Interestings”, p.77, Random House

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• I'm fortunate that I'm making a living at it now because I'm not equipped to do anything else.

  Sonny Rollins

  Music, Jazz, Fortunate

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• Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people.

  William J. Clinton

  Independent, Self Worth, People

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• Don't be so busy making a living that you forget how to live. Work hard to be successful, but enjoy the journey.

  David Cottrell

  Hard Work, Successful, Journey

  David Cottrell, Mark C. Layton (2002). “The Manager's Coaching Handbook: A Practical Guide to Improving Employee Performance”, p.39, The Walk The Talk Company

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• Every individual was put on this earth to accomplish some purpose bigger than just making a living.

  Joe Tye

  Purpose, Earth, Individual

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• It's always good to have your fan base and to continue to do what you love to do and making a living and seeing the people and travel and do everything, it's always a great thing for me.

  Ginuwine

  People, Fans, Great Things

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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