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Life's Pleasures Quote by Miley Cyrus

"All I do is work, so I eat to live and to keep going"

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There is something both blunt and bleakly efficient in Miley Cyrus framing food as fuel: not pleasure, not ritual, not even self-care, but a maintenance task that keeps the machine running. Coming from a pop star whose brand has often been read as excess - spectacle, reinvention, appetite of every kind - the line lands like a quiet tell. It suggests a life where the body is less a home than a worksite, and eating is part of the shift schedule.

The intent feels defensive and clarifying at once. Cyrus has spent her career being treated as a public object: analyzed, moralized, meme-ified. Saying "All I do is work" re-centers the narrative on labor rather than indulgence. It's a subtle rebuttal to the lazy stereotype of celebrity as leisure. The subtext is that productivity has colonized even the most basic human rhythms. If rest is guilt, then meals become transactions: calories exchanged for stamina, a contract with tomorrow's obligations.

Context matters because Cyrus represents an era where the performance never ends - not just onstage, but online, in interviews, in the endless expectation to be "on". The quote reads like a compressed confession from the attention economy: when your output is your identity, you start relating to yourself as an instrument. It's not romantic; it's revealing. The poignancy is in how normal it sounds, like a sentence plenty of non-famous people could say now, too - which is exactly why it works.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Cyrus, Miley. (2026, January 15). All I do is work, so I eat to live and to keep going. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/all-i-do-is-work-so-i-eat-to-live-and-to-keep-172563/

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Cyrus, Miley. "All I do is work, so I eat to live and to keep going." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/all-i-do-is-work-so-i-eat-to-live-and-to-keep-172563/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"All I do is work, so I eat to live and to keep going." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/all-i-do-is-work-so-i-eat-to-live-and-to-keep-172563/. Accessed 18 Feb. 2026.

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Miley Cyrus

Miley Cyrus (born November 23, 1992) is a Musician from USA.

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