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Mum loves me being famous! She is so excited and proud, as she had me so young and couldn't support me, so I am living her dream, it's sweeter for both of us. It's her 40th birthday soon and I'm going to buy her 40 presents.
Adele

Birthday, Famous, Young

If my mother knew I did this for a living, she'd kill me. She thinks I'm selling dope.
Henny Youngman

Mother, She, Knew

The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching 'We are all one.'
Neale Donald Walsch

Experience, Spiritual, Human

I don't need to publish to make a living.
J. K. Rowling

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
Herman Melville

Work, Great, Art

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.
Desiderius Erasmus

Life, Age, Time

Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
Eric Hoffer

Good, Wise, Few

It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.
Eric Hoffer

Death, Longer, Praise

When we were starting off as kids, just the idea of maybe going to do this as a living instead of getting what we thought was going to be a boring job, was exciting.
Paul McCartney

Job, Boring, Thought

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
Arthur Ashe

Life, Give, Makes

I suppose for me as an artist it wasn't always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.
David Bowie

Work, Thought, Challenge

We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.
Davy Crockett

Respect, Sympathy, Dead

Rugby is great. The players don't wear helmets or padding; they just beat the living daylights out of each other and then go for a beer. I love that.
Joe Theismann

Love, Great, Beer

Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.
Mother Jones

Fight, Hell, Dead

From this it follows that con-sideration for other persons or for other living beings is very vital for goodness and want of consideration for other people makes human beings selfish, regardless for other people's good.
Morarji Desai

Good, Selfish, Human

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.
H. G. Wells

Education, Graduation, Made

You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.
Emile M. Cioran

Life, Done, Hatred

We're living in a fearful time. Since 9/11 people have become more afraid than before, because of terrorism. There's a lot of confusion about evil, where it's all coming from.
Charles Stanley

Time, Evil, Before

In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
Taylor Caldwell

Sleep, Fortune, Safe

We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources.
Jane Goodall

Down, Poverty, Leave

To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present.
Bo Bennett

Future, Past, Focus

Not being in tune with your customers is like living in an alternate reality; the way you think your customers feel about your product is not always the same as what your customers really think about your product.
Bo Bennett

Reality, Same, Customers

Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.
Thomas a Kempis

Life, Truth, Knowing

While living I want to live well.
Geronimo

President Obama is the kind of politician who puts promises on the record, and then calls that the record. But we are four years into this presidency.The issue is not the economy as Barack Obama inherited it, not the economy as he envisions it, but this economy as we are living it.
Paul Ryan

President, Economy, Four

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
Edvard Munch

Love, Women, Men

I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
Jennifer Aniston

Boring, Perfect, Else

I realised it was only me who was stopping myself from living my life.
Jennifer Aniston

Life, Stopping, Realised

Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.
Channing Pollock

Greed, Far, Calm

The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.
David Herbert Lawrence

Great, Experience, Woman

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