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I started my own little carpet and upholstery cleaning business. I've done it for 20 years. I live well.

Being by the nature of my upbringing, all my energies having been directed to one channel of activity, crippled from other activities and made helpless even to live.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

The "what should be" never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no "what should be," there is only what is.

Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.

If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.

My parents live right down the street from the house I grew up in.

He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life.

I'm sure one reason I became an actor is my basic unwillingness to live one life.

Today is a most unusual day, because we have never lived it before; we will never live it again; it is the only day we have.

This is the great reward of service, to live, far out and on, in the life of others; this is the mystery of Christ, - to give life's best for such high sake that it shall be found again unto life eternal.

I'd like to help repair the earth's ecosystems, and to fully live until I'm fully dead.

You never really meet a human being until you live with them or know them for awhile, so this is my clown and they understand that and so these interviews don't bother them.

You don't really know a song until you play it live.

I had been to the South many times and I thought I knew what the South was, but not until you live with people and live through their lives do you know what it's really about.

But that private world, once it's dramatised, doesn't live again until it finds a reader.

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

I live quite an unsettled life.

Manufacturing and other unskilled professions that were union jobs, that allowed people to live a middle-class life, are disappearing both because unions are disappearing and because of the global nature of the economy.

You're not going to live your life unscathed.

We live in an unsafe world.

We have a good life when we manage to live with both satisfied and unsatisfied needs, when we are not obsessed by what is beyond our reach.

DUST includes rarities, demos, unreleased songs and instrumentals, live recordings, and more.

I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.

We live in the Facebook era. I think everyone, not just celebrities, have an unprecedented level of self-awareness, of presenting yourself to the world. The truth is, it starts with how you look, and that goes into how you dress.

We live in a world of increasing dependence on electronic records and retrieval, unprecedented security and preservation concerns, and insufficient attention to civic and democratic education.

I have been unable to live an uncommitted or suspended life. I have not hesitated to declare my affiliation with an extremely unpopular cause.

Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.

When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant.