Live Quotes

"Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living in the now"

Alex Rodriguez, Athlete

"These guys live and breathe football; they get something out of going to the training ground every day"

Alan Hansen, Athlete

"In order to represent life on the stage, we must rub elbows with life, live ourselves"

Marie Dressler, Actress

"Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend"

Jim Harrison, Writer

"At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs"

Ibrahim Babangida, Statesman

"When it comes to federal elections law, Tom DeLay and his special-interest friends live by one set of rules, and everyone else lives by a very different set"

Rahm Emanuel, Politician

"Any excuse to live in New York and do art. Has to be one of the most rewarding experiences in the world"

Tommy Chong, Actor

"I went to a rare live Van Dyke show and met him there. And then he came to a show of mine and we spoke back stage. The third time was at Brian Wilson's birthday party"

Matthew Sweet, Musician

"Once a person has all the things they need to live, everything else is entertainment"

Neal Stephenson, Writer

"To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind"

Wallace Stevens, Poet

"But a lot of writers - and I'm one of them - do tend to feel dissatisfied. It makes you a little hard to live with, but it's a goad and does keep you alert and restless"

Tobias Wolff, Writer

"Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live"

Margaret Fuller, Critic

"When you're young, you should live out every weekend. Even if you look like a scarecrow, you just gotta go!"

Jonathan Brandis, Actor

"The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport"

Van Morrison, Musician

"There's probably a way to use that great content and to live under the radar now and then in order to reach a new audience. That's the thinking I'm talking about"

John Tesh, Musician

"We live in an anaesthetized society"

Tony Snow, Journalist

"I kind of think I'm going to live a long life as a punishment"

Jessica Hahn, Celebrity

"I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it"

Tea Leoni, Actress

"Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as a way of growing in my own understanding, seems to me to be a beautiful way to live. And if that product is shareable with other people, so much the better"

Jane Rule, Author

"Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique"

Jane Rule, Author

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

James Brown, Musician

"But the answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing that anyway. However you intellectualise it, you still just live"

Damien Hirst, Artist

"Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!"

Karl Liebknecht, Politician

"I've made six films since I made Secrets and Lies but I still live in London and I'd love to do theater"

Brenda Blethyn, Actress

"But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics"

Olga Korbut, Athlete

"Theater in Chicago will always be my first love. It started careers for me and about 50 of my friends. We all love coming back. As soon as the TV show is over, I'll be back in Chicago, doing live theater"

William Petersen, Actor

"I live in a kind of controlled awareness. I wouldn't call it fear, but it's an awareness. I know I have a responsibility to behave in a certain way. I'm able to do that"

Mary Tyler Moore, Actress

"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"

Joshua Chamberlain, Soldier

"It is distressing to me that we live in an age in which we still must fight to protect our civil rights as Americans, in which a hate crime perpetrated against someone based their sexual orientation can go unpunished, and in which discrimination is being written into our laws"

John Conyers, Politician

"Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with"

Peter Marshall, Clergyman

"In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well"

Vince McMahon, Entertainer

"These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them"

Aristophanes, Poet

"It is such a complex matter we live within, it is impossible to track logic and decision making really, so therefore each choice can actually only be seen as coincidence"

Alva Noto, Artist

"The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion"

Tom Wolfe, Journalist

"Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live"

Tom Wolfe, Journalist

"Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round"

Walter Annenberg, Businessman

"I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a decay of the odds that I might live for a while, that I can sleep it off"

Harold Brodkey, Author

"War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves"

Rosanne Cash, Musician

"I think we are living in selfish times. I'm the first one to say that I'm the most selfish. We live in the so-called 'first world,' and we may be first in a lot of things like technology, but we are behind in empathy"

Javier Bardem, Actor

"I finally said, I can't live being carried by this wake"

Marla Maples, Actress

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