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• As an adult, I think I wanna be living in New York City and help a lot of homeless people and try to become vegan and maybe be a band with some good friends and be making a living and be happy with how much money I have.

  Rachel Trachtenburg

  New York, Good Friend, Thinking

  "The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players: Off & On Broadway". Documentary, August 1, 2006.

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• We don't consider manual work as a curse, or a bitter necessity, not even as a means of making a living. We consider it as a high human function, as the basis of human life, the most dignified thing in the life of the human being, and which ought to be free, creative. Men ought to be proud of it.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Mean, Men, Creative

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• ...the story of a man who saw three fellows laying bricks at a new building:
  He approached the first and asked, What are you doing?
  Clearly irritated, the first man responded, What the heck do you think I'm doing? I'm laying these darn bricks!
  He then walked over to the second bricklayer and asked the same question.
  The second fellow responded, Oh, I'm making a living.
  He approached the third bricklayer with the same question, What are you doing?
  The third looked up, smiled and said, I'm building a cathedral.
  At the end of the day, who feels better about how he's spent his last eight hours?

  Bill Vaughan

  Feel Better, Men, Thinking

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• Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in filthy air all the time late into the night. I was very excited when I started making a living out of my writing, and I decided, 'I will live in nothing but an absolutely healthy way.'

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Mean, Writing

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• The neccessity for making a living keeps our minds so bound down to the details of professional success that we sometimes forget there is anything except professional success to live for. The necessity of conforming our habits and standards to the habits and standards of those about us, in order that we may do efficient work, makes us forget that there is a point where conformity ceases to be a virtue.

  Arthur Twining Hadley

  Inspirational, Order, Mind

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• ... we have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their bundance. Whatever we do, we are supposed to do for the sake of "making a living;" such is the verdict of society, and the number of people, especially in the professions who might challenge it, has decreased rapidly. The only exception society is willing to grant is to the artist, who, strictly speaking, is the only "worker" left in a laboring society.

  Hannah Arendt

  Art, Work, Numbers

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• One of the keys is, and it may sound funny, talking about characters with super powers, but one of the keys is to make your characters as realistic and believable as possible. Even if they have super powers, you say to yourself, "Well, if somebody had a super power like this, what would his life be like? Wouldn't he still maybe have to go to the dentist or wouldn't he have to worry about making a living? What about his love life?" You've got to make characters that your reader can believe exists or might exist.

  Stan Lee

  Believe, Character, Love Life

  Source: www.ign.com

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• Nothing tops making a living off your passion.

  G-Eazy

  Passion

  Source: www.thecomeupshow.com

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• I just always wanted a platform. In the past, I always dreamed of having a following and a fan base - you know, a group of people just listening and paying attention to what I was making. I think the reality kicked in that you have to make a living so that you have enough time to keep creating, you know? 'Cause if you're not making a living at this, then you're making a living working another job, and if you're working another job, you're spending all your time doing that and can't put enough time into the music.

  G-Eazy

  Jobs, Past, Reality

  Source: www.thecomeupshow.com

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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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• In my mid 30's, after a decade or so of giving full time to the music thing and finding myself with about $10 in the bank and no assets other than my musical equipment, I realized I needed to get serious about making a living.

  Marc Edwards

  Giving, Musical, Serious

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• Marriage is not mainly about prospering economically; it is mainly about displaying the covenant-keepin g love between Christ and his church. Knowing Christ is more important than making a living. Treasuring Christ is more important than bearing children. Being united to Christ by faith is a greater source of marital success than perfect sex and double-income prosperity.

  John Piper

  Sex, Children, Love Is

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• I spent much of my college life prepping for other careers, but I was always drawing and painting whenever I had free time. Eventually, thanks to the internet, I started noticing that there were such things as art schools, and professional artists, and people making a living doing a variety of types of art.

  Julie Dillon

  Art, School, College

  Source: littleredreviewer.wordpress.com

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• It was a natural thing for me to go become a musician, and then to start writing music. I don't even really remember making a decision to go into music, it was just there for me, always. If I weren't making a living at it, I'd still be writing music.

  Geoff Zanelli

  Writing, Decision, Musician

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• Regardless of what we think we know and should happen the reality is that a lot of stock action is random. Therefore, money management is crucial if you want to be successful as a trader. To me, it`s the cornerstone of both making a living at trading and building wealth.

  Jeff Cooper

  Successful, Reality, Thinking

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• I don't believe in having to show anybody anything. I just do my work. You know, making a living as an actor is such a rarity on earth. It's like making a living as a painter. So I look at different opportunities in the same way as Jack Nicholson, who said once, "Keep popping up in different holes. That's what you want to do: Just keep popping up in different holes." That made a lot of sense to me.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Believe, Opportunity, Way

  "Steve Guttenberg on Police Academy, Party Down, and turning down Sharknado". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. July 25, 2015.

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• The profit motive, when it is the sole basis of an economic system, encourages a cutthroat competition and selfish ambition that inspires men to be more concerned about making a living than making a life.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Selfish, Ambition, Men

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• And you fathers, are you so busy making a living, playing golf, bowling, hunting, that you do not have time to talk to your boys and hold them close to you and win their confidence? Or do you brush them off, so that they dare not come and talk about these things with you?

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Father, Golf, Winning

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• Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll all be finished. 'm lucky to work in the most perfect of conditions. I can do what I want in all kinds of areas. The expenses are not expenses. I would be stupid to stop that. Work is making a living out of being bored.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Stupid, Hate, Perfect

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• We usually forget that apart from making a living on this earth, human beings live in societies and these societies have cultures. It is only through having cultures that mankind on this earth has an ordered and meaningful life. Music and drama are two of the many important manifestation of a culture. They are important because they represent the expressions emanating from the power of human artistic creativity

  Tunku Abdul Rahman

  Meaningful, Drama, Creativity

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• If you love writing or making music or blogging or any sort of performing art, then do it. Do it with everything you've got. Just don't plan on using it as a shortcut to making a living.

  Seth Godin

  Art, Writing, Blogging

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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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• Making a living and making a life sometimes point in opposite directions.

  Pico Iyer

  Opposites, Sometimes

  Pico Iyer (2014). “The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Give the best you have received from the past to the best that you may come to know in the future. Accept life daily not as a cup to be drained but as a chalice to be filled with whatsoever things are honest, pure, lovely, and of good report. Making a living is best undertaken as part of the more important business of making a life. Every now and again take a good look at something not made with hands-a mountain, a star, the turn of a stream. There will come to you wisdom and patience and solace, and above all the assurance that you are not alone in the world.

  Sid Lovett

  Life, Stars, Past

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• We should be in the business of living, not making a living.

  Lucien Bourjeily

  Should

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