Top 100 Live Down Quotes

#1. I'm a hard worker, very driven, and have never expected anything to come easily. My yoga, a great rejuvenator, helped me to live down my image - this sex symbol thing. It helps me connect with myself.

Raquel Welch

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#2. I'm Irish yet I don't drink as I refuse to be a stereotype and live down to the expectations of others.

Stewart Stafford

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#3. I don't live on a hill. I live down under a hill, in the bottom and I've got a lot of cars, yeah.

Hasil Adkins

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#4. I was being flirted with for 'Modern Family,' which my wife still hasn't let me live down, but it's one of those things where that show is so brilliant because the casting couldn't be any more perfect. It wouldn't have been right for me, and I wouldn't have been right for it.

Josh Gad

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#5. Being accused of enthusiasm is something I'll never live down.

Sargent Shriver

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#6. The United States has tried for years to live down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's order during World War II to move Japanese-Americans on the West Coast to inland detention camps on grounds that they might be disloyal.

Helen Thomas

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#7. I get to live down my reputation for being cantankerous if I slowly evolve towards being a really good live show.

Ariel Pink

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#8. It's better to live down a scandal than to ruin one's life.

Anton Chekhov

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#9. A reputation is really hard to live down.

Mickey Rourke

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#10. You don't have to walk me back. I live down the hall." She smiled up at him.
"My mama didn't raise me like that," Paul said, opening the door.
"Actually, your mama has some sense, and would say, 'She lives twenty feet away,' but suit yourself," Mrs. Olivier said.

Mary Jane Hathaway

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#11. She would have to leave the country, or at least Nantucket, because there was no way she could live down the fact that she had tried to strangle the hottest boy on the island.

Josephine Angelini

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#12. Early poems are a thing it takes years to live down.

Angela Thirkell

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#13. Living down your own past was hard enough. You shouldn't have to live down someone else's.

Sarah Addison Allen

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#14. By the time she got back to work, the only thing Gabby knew for certain was that as forgiving as he'd been, she'd never live down what she'd done, and since there wasn't a rock large enough to crawl under, it was in her best interest to find a way to avoid him.

Nicholas Sparks

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#15. We tend to live down to other people's expectations, especially the people closest to us. It is more difficult to obtain approval of people who hold us in high regard than to accept the lower standards that other people hold of us.

Kilroy J. Oldster

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#16. My attitude when I'm in Mexico is I wake up in the morning with nothing to do and I go to bed half done. I don't wear a watch. When I live down there, I do nothing according to time. I eat when I'm hungry and go to sleep when I'm tired.

Jesse Ventura

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#17. One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

Oscar Wilde

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#18. There is nothing we cannot live down, rise above, and overcome.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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#19. No self-respecting gay guy would have ever made some of the hair and clothing choices I am still trying to live down.

David Copperfield

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#20. Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.

Wendy Wasserstein

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#21. He closed his eyes. 'Don't,' he said, but she could hear despair in his voice. It made her even angrier. It made her want to live down to his expectations.

Holly Black

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#22. The 'good-enough marriage' is definitely not good enough for today's singles. We're not content to marry someone who happens to live down the street and gets along okay with our parents.

Aziz Ansari

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#23. It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.

Bela Lugosi

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#24. Politicians are interesting people, most of them are smart and hard-working-I mean, they keep schedules no one else would think of keeping. Some of them live down to the caricature, but most of them are good people and they are charming.

Tucker Carlson

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#25. I think about how no one in the car would come out and say it. We all know about these laws, we live here, but we don't talk about them. This is the first time I've ever seen them written down.

Kathryn Stockett

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#26. The way to live life, is to constantly look down upon others, but never say it.

Robert Black

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#27. And may you live to see it,' said Fermin, as he signalled to the siren from Calle Escudillers to start displaying her wares.
I saw her caress the old man with infinite delicacy,
kissing the tears that fell down his cheeks.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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#28. I'm not particularly a football fan, but I live in north London, and I can hear when Arsenal score, and it's fantastically exciting. Down the road you can hear the roar.

Mike Newell

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#29. Take down the walls.
Otherwise you must live closely, in fear, building barricades against the unknown, saying prayers against the darkness, speaking verse of terror and tightness.
Otherwise you may never know hell, but you will not find heaven, either. You will not know fresh air and flying.

Lauren Oliver

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#30. Since death is an inevitablility and life an uncertainty, it all comes down to how we live the precious moments of our lives. When all is said and done, when you are ready to slip peacefully from this world into the next, how do you want to be remembered?

S. Cameron Roach

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#31. The new contract between writers and readers is one I'm prepared to sign up to. I've met some fascinating people at events and online. Down with the isolation of writers I say! And long live Twitter.

Sara Sheridan

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#32. Anyone would think a thin stick like me, weak and miserable would go down with everything: do you think I get more than my cough every winter? I bet I live till ninety, with all my aches and pains. To think that's fifty more years of the Great-I-Am.

Christina Stead

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#33. We have been fortunate enough to live at a time when virtue, though it does not triumph, is nonetheless not always tormented by attack dogs. Beaten down, sickly, virtue has now been allowed to enter in all its tatters and sit in the corner, as long as it doesn't raise its voice.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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#34. It doesn't matter how you live and die, it's how the bards wrote it down.

Terry Pratchett

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#35. All other things being equal, you will
generally live up or down to expectations.

Mark Dilworth

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#36. Look at that! If you ever needed convincing that we live in the solar system, that we are on a ball of rock, orbiting around the Sun with other balls of rock, then look at that! That's the solar system coming down and grabbing you by the throat.

Brian Cox

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#37. I love those that know not how to live except as down-goers, for they are the over-goers.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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#38. This man took my last son. No one could claim my hurt, or my anger. No one could have a greater claim on this one's life." Her voice was tight and fierce. She patted Ray's arm. "There's been enough killing down here. We have to find a way to live without the killing.

Robert Crais

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#39. I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to.

Madeleine Peyroux

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#40. I AM THANKFUL I WAS BLESSED WITH GOD'S GRACE I DIDN'T LIVE MY ENTIRE LIFE LOOKING FOR SOMETHING I ALWAYS HAD

Upside Down (One on the House)

William Teets

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#41. Wrong on that score. And efficiency is no guarantee of survival. Nor is intellect. What it takes to be the last one standing is an unquenchable hunger to live. He who wants it the most wins. It takes fire, willingness to burn down to your motherfucking core.

Karen Marie Moning

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#42. A mind cluttered with past thoughts, old conversations and unhealed wounds can only serve to drag us down and compromise our ability to live free.

Shannon Tanner

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#43. Love transforms and love cures;but,sometimes,love builds deadly traps and can end up destroying a person who had resolved to give him or herself completely.What is this complex feeling which,deep down,is the only reason we continue to live,struggle and improve?

Paulo Coelho

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#44. I do now most heartily desire to live but to exalt Jesus; to live preaching and to die preaching; to preach to perishing sinners till I drop down dead.

Henry Grattan Guinness

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#45. Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.

Rachel Kushner

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#46. All you will have is the present. Waste no energy crying over yesterday or dreaming of tomorrow. Nostalgia is fatiguing and destructive, it is the vice of the expatriate. You must put down roots as if they were forever, you must have a sense of permanence.

Isabel Allende

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#47. Buddy, you have no idea what I am capable of. Now, put the rifle down on the ground. Step back and walk away. Then leave this place and do not ever come back. If you do that, I will let you live.

James J. Caterino

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#48. I wish i could write them down, these little coloured parables or poems that live for a moment in some cell of my brain, and then leave it to go wandering elsewhere. I hate writing; the mere act of writing a thing down is troublesome to me. I want some fine medium, and look for it in vain.

Oscar Wilde

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#49. There's a saying: "May you live in interesting times." To begin, it's a curse. "Interesting" in this case uniformly means "Oh god, death is raining down upon us and we shall all perish wailing and possibly on fire.

John Scalzi

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#50. I didn't mean to live in Portland. It was kind of an accident - I mean, the equivalent of my car breaking down there and me being like, 'Well ... I guess this is what I'm doing. I just can't find a better alternate.'

Isaac Brock

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#51. Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has.

Mary J. Blige

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#52. Readers don't want to read about somebody else having powerful emotions ... Readers want to become somebody else for a few hours, to live an exciting life, to find true love, to face down unimaginable terrors, to solve impossible puzzles, to feel a lightning jolt of adrenaline.

Randy Ingermanson

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#53. She also told me it wore down her spirit to live in the desert landscape that was parched by midsummer, to plant a garden each spring and struggle to keep it alive past July.

Ursula Hegi

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#54. I had always been kind of obsessed with making a home of my own and was always drawing rooms that I wanted to live in, down to pictures on the wall and the faces that would be in the photographs, and how the couches would be situated.

Michelle Williams

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#55. When all the world is old, lad, And all the trees are brown; And all the sport is stale, lad, And all the wheels run down, Creep home and take your place there, The spent and maimed among: God grant you find one face there You loved when all was young.

Susanna Kearsley

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#56. They never let you live it down. One little mistake!- Nero

Robert Asprin

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#57. No one who does not live with constant pain can imagine the toll it takes. The way it grinds you down. The sheer damnable tedium of it.

Mary Doria Russell

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#58. My mom is a hard worker. She puts her head down and she gets it done. And she finds a way to have fun. She always says, 'Happiness is your own responsibility.' That's probably what I quote from her and live by the most.

Jennifer Garner

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#59. When we sit down to write, we psychically enter a sanctuary. This safe haven is our own personal space where we can say whatever is on our mind, where we can talk about what matters most to us, where we can imagine the kind of world that we would like to live.

Rob Bignell, Editor

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#60. Because I have an ideal to live up to. And I can't fall down in my own eyes!

Avijeet Das

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#61. to worship Jesus is out-of-date. What we now need to do is to take Him down from the cross and Live Jesus, Be Jesus, or we got nada-nada-nothing!

Victor E. Villasenor

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#62. When there's an accident, we all have to slow down and watch the accident. We all have to be a little voyeuristic. I mean, look at the world we live in now, with all these 'Big Brother' shows. We're all a bunch of voyeuristic people.

Donny Osmond

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#63. I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.

Ingmar Bergman

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#64. This is the Scroll of Thoth. Herein are set down the magic words by which Isis raised Osiris from the dead. Oh! Amon-Ra
Oh! God of Gods
Death is but the doorway to new life
We live today-we shall live again
In many forms shall we return-Oh, mighty one.

John L. Balderston

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#65. We live in a world of our own creation. We've made our bed, ladies and gentlemen, whether we intended to or not. Now, we get the honor of lying down in it.

Mira Grant

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#66. I want to settle down this last time. I say last, because I don't think I'm in any condition to live a long time from now. The bell's gonna ring pretty soon.

Elaine Stritch

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#67. It is in this space of mastery over paradigms that people throw off addictions, live in constant joy, bring down empires, get locked up or burned at the stake or crucified or shot, and have impacts that last for millennia.

Donella Meadows

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#68. if you really want to live, it's imperative that you go back down the path and claim it. You've got to be there then before you can be here now. The mystery begins with our history.

Jeff Brown

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#69. Do anything, save to lie down and die!

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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#70. Remember, if you want to love your life and live it to the fullest, don't let the sun go down on your anger. If you don't have a solution to the issue, agree to disagree and focus on the importance of the relationship.

Victoria Osteen

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#71. People live in my head. If they do anything interesting, don't worry, I write it down for ya.

Lauren DeStefano

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#72. The road ahead of you is long, dark, and, I very much fear, bloodstained. I also very much fear that you will take us all down that road. But you must live to reach the end of it.

Robert Jordan

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#73. Of course, they're not clowning around trying to make me laugh. They're doing their best to live very serious lives, and they just happen to fall down sometimes. I think that's cool.

Haruki Murakami

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#74. In the U.K., classical music is composed by individuals and written down. Indian music is based on certain sequences called ragas. When I perform live, 95% of the music is improvised: it never sounds the same twice.

Ravi Shankar

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#75. When I think of my past life, and the bitter trials I have endured, I can scarcely believe I live, and yet I do; and, with the help of Him who notes the sparrow's fall, I mean to fight for my down-trodden race while life lasts.

Sarah Winnemucca

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#76. No matter what I write or speak about, it always has some connection to how our spiritual understanding impacts the world we live in. Whether I'm writing or teaching about nutrition, pilates, green living or meditation, all topics simmer down to self thought and intention.

Marianne Williamson

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#77. I'm from Kentucky. I used to be very personable and make eye contact and smile at people, and now all I do is look down. When I'm at dinner and one person after another keeps interrupting to take pictures, it's like, 'I can't live like this'.

Jennifer Lawrence

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#78. Cowards are nice, they're interesting, they're gentle, they wouldn't think of shooting down people in a parade from a tower. They want to live, so they can see their kids. They're very brave.

William, Saroyan

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#79. Most people live life on the path we set for them. Too afraid to explore any other. But once in a while people like you come along and knock down all the obstacles we put in your way. People who realize free will is a gift, you'll never know how to use until you fight for it.

The Adjustment Bureau

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#80. If you weren't going to tell me, why did you bring me down here? So I could watch you die?"
"No, sweetie. Just the opposite." He rolled his head to face her. "I asked you to come so I could watch you live.

Nicholas Sparks

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#81. Well ... I mean ... "
Her eyebrows lifted and she looked at him slyly. "You want to ask me about the fan again?"
He grinned. She'd never let him live that down.

Nicholas Sparks

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#82. I live on the other side of Copernicus and Galileo; I can no longer conceive of God as sort of above the sky, looking down and keeping record books.

John Shelby Spong

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#83. By slowing down at the right moments, people find that they do everything better: They eat better; they make love better; they exercise better; they work better; they live better.

Carl Honore

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#84. Opportunities are like night owls. They like to streak naked and howl at the moon. A lot of success in life comes down to luck. So put yourself in a position to get lucky. Because you know what happens if you don't go out?

Nothing.

Ari Gold

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#85. I live and die with the Indians. The first game I attended back in the mid-'90s was almost a religious experience. We were down by six and won by two, and it was glorious. The stadium is so beautiful, and the way it frames the city when you're sitting high above the second base line is spectacular.

Mary Doria Russell

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#86. I used to live with J.D. Souther, and I would watch him write. He's be sitting, he'd say something, and then he'd write it down. That's craft.

Linda Ronstadt

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#87. It is trifling to believe in what you do or in what others do. You should avoid simulacra and even "realities"; you should take up a position external to everything and everyone, drive off or grind down your appetites, live, according to a Hindu adage, with as few desires as a "solitary elephant.

Emil Cioran

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#88. The hardest thing about being James Brown is I have to live. I don't have no down time.

James Brown

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#89. Live with purpose. Don't let people or things around you get you down.

Albert Einstein

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#90. Try to cut down drastically on plastic. Recycle. Use less energy and more renewable energy. We can all live better by doing better for ourselves and the sea!

Carl Safina

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#91. My sister and I were born in San Francisco. When our parents died, we came down here to live with relatives.

Freddy Fender

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#92. You can't control what others think. The only thing you can control is yourself. Some people will look down on you for your choices in life, no matter what they are. You can't do anything about that. The only thing you can do is decide how to live your own life. And to hell with everybody else

Marie Sexton

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#93. Yes. She rebelled, I suppose, against being made to live in the past. After all, there's a time for everything. You can't sit in the house with the blinds down forever.

Agatha Christie

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#94. There's no real formula for doing it, it's either just living life and writing down a joke you think of in the middle of the day and then pieces those together later.

Jeff Dunham

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#95. I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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#96. Without God's power in your life, you are just running on your own energy. God never meant for you to do that. It's like having a laptop that's unplugged; the battery will eventually drain and shut down the computer. Why would you live like that when God created you for so much more?

Rick Warren

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#97. Marlinspike goes down to the kitchen, to grow stout and live out his beastly nature. There is a summer ahead, though he cannot imagine its pleasures; sometimes when he's walking in the garden he sees him, a half-grown cat, lolling watchful in an apple tree, or snoring on a wall in the sun.

Hilary Mantel

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#98. History is merciless. History doesn't care if we pound our society down a rat hole. It's up to us to make more intelligent choices about how we live!

James Howard Kunstler

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#99. I bet in big cities you can walk down the street scrowling and no one will ask you what's wrong or encourage you to smile, but everyone here has the attitude that we're lucky to live in Hawaii; paradise reigns supreme. I think paradise can go fuck itself.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

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#100. The wave of the future is on the local level. Don't waste your heart and mind trying to pull down what is already destroying itself. But come into where you're almost below the radar and reorganize life. We want communities where we live and work and fight for the future.

Joanna Macy

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