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American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist 1941Related quotes
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
“If you're not busy living, you're dying.”
Vince Flynn (1966–2013) American writer of fiction
Source: American Assassin
“It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.”
Stephen King (1947) American author
Different Seasons (1982), Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
Variant: Either get busy living or get busy dying
Source: Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: A Story from Different Seasons
"Sword" ("Ken"), quoted in 三島由紀夫短編集: Seven Stories, translated by John Bester (2002), p. 67.
“I was too busy to oblige them by dying just now.”
Robert A. Heinlein book If This Goes On
If This Goes On— (p. 412)
Short fiction, The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)
Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism
5.177: Vanijja Sutta https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an05/an05.177.than.html, as translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (2001) <br class="br">Source: Pali Canon, Sutta Pitaka, Anguttara Nikaya (Numerical Discourses)
“The government should be getting out of the business of being in business.”
Ralph Klein (1942–2013) Canadian politician
Source: As quoted in "The best quotes from Ralph Klein’s colourful public life" http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/the-best-quotes-from-ralph-kleins-colourful-public-life/article10577310/, The Globe and Mail
Steve Jobs (1955–2011) American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc.
As quoted in Steve Jobs (2011) by Walter Isaacson, p. 570
2010s