"If our founding fathers were alive today, they'd roll over in their graves."
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"If Shakespeare and Michelangelo were alive today, and if they decided to collaborate on a comic, Shakespeare would write the script and Michelangelo would draw it. How could anybody say that this wouldn't be as worthwhile an artform as anything on earth?"
"Since you are the one who has to live with your choices, be sure they are your own."
"I love those who do not know how to live for today."
"Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today."
"If my father was alive today, he would have fought for Kurdish rights"
"Your life is meant to be an epic story. How you think, perform and live today is part of that script."
"We shouldn't just live for today; we should prepare for tomorrow."
"How you live today has the potential to impact all eternity."
"The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history."
"Today is the only time we can possibly live."
"Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying."
"To live is to choose."
"It might be helpful to realize, that very probably the parents of the first native born Martians are alive today."
"It's a miracle that David Bowie, Lou Reed and Iggy Pop are actually still alive today, given how hard they lived."
"That person has to be accountable for himself. I think thats what we have to do in society today is to be accountable for yourself. I think we have the tendency to always want to live someone elses life."
"Do not be held a cheat, even though it is impossible to live today without being one. Let your greatest cunning lie in covering up what looks like cunning."
"Enjoy yourself, drink, call the life you live today your own; but only that, the rest belongs to chance."
"We have a planetary emergency. We have to find a way to create, in the generation of those alive today, a sense of generational mission."
"Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday."