Life Style Quotes - Page 3

• Futurists and common sense concur that a substantial change, worldwide, in life style and moral guidelines will soon become an absolute necessity.

  Roger Wolcott Sperry

  Common Sense, Style, Moral

  Statement in 1981. Special issue of Humankind Advancing, Volume 5, No.1, January 21, 1994.

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• Anyone who conceives of writing as an agreeable stroll towards a middle-class life-style will never write anything but crap.

  Derek Raymond

  Writing, Class, Style

  Derek Raymond (2011). “He Died with His Eyes Open: Factory 1”, p.154, Profile Books

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• It has no denim-toned house paint. Levi makes what is essentially a commodity: blue jeans. Its ads may evoke rugged outdoorsmanship, but Levi hasn't promoted any particular life style to sell other products.

  Naomi Klein

  Blue, Jeans, House

  Naomi Klein (2010). “No Logo 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.71, Vintage Canada

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• I don't deny my life-style is occasionally pretty wild.

  Sam Kinison

  Style, Deny

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• I am acquainted with a wife and mother who is chained securely at the present time to a life-style of murmuring and criticism. She is the first to point out faults in her husband or to repeat neighborhood gossip. How damaging is a habit that permits fault-finding, character assassination, and the sharing of malicious rumors! Gossip and caustic comments often create chains of contention. These chains may appear to be very small, but what misery and woe they can cause!

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Mother, Husband, Character

  Marvin J. Ashton (1987). “Be of Good Cheer”, Deseret Book Co

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• No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.

  Ezra Pound

  Real, Book, Writing

  Ezra Pound (1918). “Pavannes and Divisions”

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• I don't have a life-style, I have a life.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Style, Lifestyle

  Nikki Giovanni (1988). “Sacred cows-- and other edibles”, William Morrow & Co

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• I love everything about what we [Suicide Silence] do, and our life style. It's an insane way to live when you spend most of your time inside a plane, tour bus, or in a back stage. All over this massive place we call earth.

  Mitch Lucker

  Suicide, Silence, Style

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• I'm more interested in life than life-style.

  Stephanie Zimbalist

  Style

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• To be sure, [NASCAR] stars were initially ex-bootleggers for the most part drawn from that talent pool in the Carolinas hills: "good ol' boys" as they referred to themselves. That's exactly how they would be described in the press that slowly became enamored with their raucous life style. That has all changed, with the drivers of today polished and clean-cut athletes who are expected to behave like commercial puppets in public.

  Brock Yates

  Stars, Athlete, Cutting

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• In order for a musician to grow, he's got to pay his dues. Some musicians ask me, 'well, what do you mean? You're saying I have to 'starve' and pay all these dues just to play jazz?' And my answer to them is, well, to some degree, yes! Because in order to play jazz you have to live it. Those notes mean something. They don't just come from your brain, they come from your heart and soul too. And in order to have that heart and soul you have to experience life. So I relate my music to my life and my life style. You can't separate the two.

  Woody Shaw

  Mean, Heart, Order

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• A low-energy policy allows for a wide choice of life-styles and cultures. If, on the other hand, a society opts for high energy consumption, its social relations must be dictated by technocracy and will be equally degrading whether labeled capitalist or socialist.

  Ivan Illich

  Hands, Choices, Style

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• We are a very close family, and I love them very much, but I'm definitely the odd one out. I live a completely different kind of life style. I always was different. I felt like a fish out of water; I really never knew who I was.

  Janet McTeer

  Odd One, Water, Style

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A voluntary simplification of life-styles is not beyond our abilities, but it is probably outside our desires.

  Bill McKibben

  Style, Desire, Ability

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• Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else. This is where California comes in. Mud slides, brush fires, coastal erosion, mass killings, et cetera. We can relax and enjoy these disasters because in our hearts we feel that California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

  Don DeLillo

  Heart, Fire, Erosion

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.77, Pan Macmillan

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