Livelihood Quotes - Page 6

• The rich man has his motorcar, His country and his town estate, He smokes a fifty-cent cigar And jeers at Fate. He frivols through the livelong day, He knows not Poverty, her pinch. His lot seems light, his heart seems gay; He has a cinch. Yet though my lamp burns low and dim, Though I must slave for livelihood- Think you that I would change with him? You bet I would!

  Franklin P. Adams

  Change, Country, Heart

  FRANKLIN P ADAMS (1911). “TOBOGGANING ON PARNASSUS”

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• If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that's dangerously close to arrogance.

  Trevor Nunn

  Creativity, Self Confidence, Arrogance

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• Forests ... are in fact the world's air-conditioning system-the very lungs of the planet-and help to store the largest body of freshwater on the planet ... essential to produce food for our planet's growing population. The rainforests of the world also provide the livelihoods of more than a billion of the poorest people on this Earth... In simple terms, the rainforests, which encircle the world, are our very life-support system-and we are on the verge of switching it off.

  Prince Charles

  Science, Simple, Air

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• We believe that climate change must be viewed not only as a danger to natural systems, but also as a direct threat to human survival and well-being. We are convinced that this negotiation process must not be viewed as a traditional series of governmental trade-offs, but as an urgent international effort to safeguard human lives, homes, rights and livelihoods.

  Maumoon Abdul Gayoom

  Believe, Home, Rights

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• The U.S. and Iraq will work together next year to shift Iraqi resources from unproductive subsidies to productive uses that enable Iraqis to earn livelihoods.

  Zalmay Khalilzad

  Years, Iraq, Working Together

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• Even if I could not earn a penny from my writing, I would earn my livelihood at something else and continue to write at night.

  Irving Wallace

  Writing, Night, Pennies

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• The right to criticize: the right to hold unpopular beliefs; the right to protest; the right of independent thought. The exercise of these rights should not cost one single American citizen his reputation or his right to a livelihood... Otherwise none of us could call our souls our own.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Religious, Independent, Exercise

  Declaration of Conscience, delivered 1 June 1950

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• More than one-half of the world's major rivers are being seriously depleted and polluted, degrading and poisoning the surrounding ecosystems, thus threatening the health and livelihood of people who depend upon them for irrigation, drinking and industrial water.

  Ismail Serageldin

  Drinking, Ecosystems, Rivers

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• Millions of people toil in the shadow of the law we make, and much of their livelihood is made possible by the existence of intellectual property rights.

  Alex Kozinski

  Rights, Law, People

  "Vanna White V. Samsung Electronics". United States Court Of Appeals For The Ninth Circuit, 989 F.2d 1512, law2.umkc.edu. March 18, 1993.

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• Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn't just a new livelihood. It was a new life.

  Paul Ryan

  Mom, Mother, Morning

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• The danger is not only that these austerity measures are killing the European economies but also that they threaten the very legitimacy of European democracies - not just directly by threatening the livelihoods of so many people and pushing the economy into a downward spiral, but also indirectly by undermining the legitimacy of the political system through this backdoor rewriting of the social contract.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  People, Political, Democracy

  "The root of Europe's riots" by Ha-Joon Chang, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2012.

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• In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every private employer a dictator, every financier a dictator, all with the livelihood of the workers at his mercy, and no public responsibility.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Responsibility, Boss, Revolution

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• Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Mean, Men

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• Our livelihood is intimately tied to the food we eat, water we drink and places where we recreate. That's why we have to promote responsibility and conservation when it comes to our natural resources.

  Mark Udall

  Responsibility, Water, Drink

  "Celebrating Earth Day" by Mark Udall, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 22, 2012.

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• You may control a mad elephant; You may shut the mouth of the bear and the tiger; Ride the lion and play with the cobra; By alchemy you may learn your livelihood; You may wander through the universe incognito; Make vassals of the gods; be ever youthful; You may walk in water and live in fire; But control of the mind is better and more difficult.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Fire, Play, Elephants

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• These 'masters of the universe' must be tamed in the interests of the ordinary families whose jobs and livelihoods are being put at risk. The Tories won't say anything about the current crisis as they are completely in the pockets of the hedge funds.

  Vince Cable

  Jobs, Risk, Say Anything

  "Cable Refuses to Back Knighthood for Tory Hedge Fund Millionaire Who Made Money From Fall of Northern Rock". www.dailymail.co.uk. December 31, 2011.

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• And I'm convinced, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that you can work with the unions because the unions want to survive. If they are confronted simply with the question: "Do you want this company to survive or do you want it to be broken up?" they will listen. It's their livelihood.

  Carl Icahn

  Broken, Doubt, Shadow

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• Now in regard to trades and other means of livelihood, which ones are to be considered becoming to a gentleman and which ones are vulgar, we have been taught, in general, as follows. First, those means of livelihood are rejected as undesirable which incur people's ill-will, as those of tax-gatherers and usurers. Unbecoming to a gentleman, too, and vulgar are the means of livelihood of all hired workmen whom we pay for mere manual labour, not for artistic skill; for in their case the very wage they receive is a pledge of their slavery.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Mean, Skills, Ill Will

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.3108, Delphi Classics

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• Politicians, bureaucrats, editors, new commentators, 'economists' teachers,' and other word artists who denounce private enterprise and praise socialism are their own worst enemies...these attackers are unwittingly destroying the sources of their own livelihood. They kill the geese that lay the golden eggs - and don't know it!

  Leonard Read

  Teacher, Artist, Editors

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• You can't fight progress. The best you can do is ignore it, until it finally takes your livelihood and self-respect away.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Fighting, Self, Progress

  Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• I'm a true fan of animation, and it's my livelihood. Live-action is secondary to me.

  Genndy Tartakovsky

  Fans, Action, Animation

  Source: collider.com

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• I just really like writing and making television shows. There are ego rewards in doing battle with other television programs in prime time in the main season. I suppose there are times when I might look at that and think that's the major league. But when you look at it, ultimately would I really want to gamble my livelihood and my ability to connect with my fan base or write a show that I really like writing, or in some cases direct a show that I really like directing, for the sake of winning an ego battle? It's totally not worth it. That stuff is so ephemeral.

  Matt Nix

  Writing, Winning, Thinking

  Source: deadline.com

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• The fact that so many people whose livelihood depends on being able to play, it's just crazy.

  Nick Zinner

  Crazy, Play, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Mothers love you to the end, and she didn't want to hold me back from my livelihood. So I left for a month and called her every couple of days. I came home and she died 24 hours later.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Mother, Couple, Love You

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• The future of our children is a trust we have been given. To conserve and grow, not to squander wastefully on needless excesses. The earth is a trust, to protect and to honor. Our home, our livelihood, our future rests in the quality of our stewardship. Let us become better stewards.

  Helen Caldicott

  Children, Home, Honor

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