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I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I felt very helpless. As an economist, I had no tool in my tool box to fix that kind of situation.
Author:
Muhammad Yunus
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Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.
Author:
William Yeats
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I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.
Author:
Chuck Yeager
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I am dying, but with a strong hope and persuasion that my country will gain her independence.
Author:
David Wooster
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Dying is easy; comedy is hard.
Author:
Donald Wolfit
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In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.
Author:
Thomas Wolfe
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It's funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the time I die, I'm usually tired of working on that particular movie, so I look forward to it.
Author:
Owen Wilson
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A person starts dying when they stop dreaming.
Author:
Brian Williams
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Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.
Author:
Morris West
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I had to put my kid before my career and all the money I was making. I decided to do the right thing. I was dying inside. If I didn't have my daughter, I would be dead right now, for sure.
Author:
Brian Welch
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It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.
Author:
Daniel Webster
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In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.
Author:
Evelyn Waugh
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Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.
Author:
Andy Warhol
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Because these kids get away from their parents, and they binge drink until they are sick. Dozens of them are going to the hospital, and some of them dying. This is a problem, a big problem that needs to be addressed, and we need accurate information.
Author:
Zach Wamp
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It hurts, it hurts... Im dying, I'm dying.
Author:
Herve Villechaize
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Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?
Author:
Raoul Vaneigem
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I'm dying to get back in front of the cameras. I miss it like crazy.
Author:
Holly Valance
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If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.
Author:
Lao Tzu
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It is better to not even try it than to endure the ramifications of either quitting smoking or dying.
Author:
Christy Turlington
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It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.
Author:
Anthony Trollope
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Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.
Author:
Polly Toynbee
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The best care on earth cannot prevent us all dying in the end.
Author:
Polly Toynbee
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Openness about death has led to greater care about all aspects of dying.
Author:
Polly Toynbee
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There was much woe and lamentation in the seventies that the game was dying.
Author:
John Thorn
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We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.
Author:
Lewis Thomas
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American boys should not be seen dying on the nightly news. Wars should be over in three days or less, or before Congress invokes the War Powers Resolution.
Author:
Evan Thomas
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Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Author:
Dylan Thomas
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Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
Author:
Mother Teresa
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Authority forgets a dying king.
Author:
Alfred Tennyson
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When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.
Author:
Jeremy Taylor
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Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.
Author:
Johannes Tauler
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Dying is not difficult, yielding is impossible.
Author:
Jane Swisshelm
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Doesn't anyone here think this sounds like a vision of hell? While we are all competing or dying, when will there be time for sex or music or books? Stop the world, I want to get off.
Author:
Howard Stringer
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My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say: 'Hey, you look like...' And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand.
Author:
Barbra Streisand
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I don't think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time.
Author:
Ben Stiller
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It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.
Author:
John Steinbeck
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Stage performing is a dying art form.
Author:
Ronnie Spector
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Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
Author:
Sophocles
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Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
Author:
Socrates
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Why should I be worried about dying? It's not going to happen in my lifetime!
Author:
Raymond Smullyan
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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.
Author:
Logan Smith
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I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung.
Author:
Kate Smith
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I can't think of anything off the top of my head that seems more important than something designed to raise money to keep something going that keeps IV drug users from dying.
Author:
Elliott Smith
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Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.
Author:
Adam Smith
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I'm different. I have a different constitution, I have a different brain, I have a different heart. I got tiger blood, man. Dying's for fools, dying's for amateurs.
Author:
Charlie Sheen
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Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.
Author:
George Shaw
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Veteran performers are dying off, and new acts simply aren't emerging on the national scene.
Author:
Brian Setzer
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I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more.
Author:
Jon Secada
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People are dying who haven't had that opportunity to say yes to the Lord.
Author:
Michael Scott
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We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.
Author:
Albert Schweitzer
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Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else.
Author:
Morrie Schwartz
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Before our kids start coming home from Iraq in body bags and women and children start dying in Baghdad, I need to know, what did Iraq do to us?
Author:
Susan Sarandon
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I think about dying a lot, every time I fall asleep on a train or a plane I expect to wake up to a crash!
Author:
Lee Ryan
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When people stop dying, they want to create wealth.
Author:
Josh Ruxin
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it.
Author:
Johnny Rotten
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Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.
Author:
Philip Roth
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And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying.
Author:
Christina Rossetti
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When it comes to war, we focus more on the mainstream coverage of the event, rather than the event itself. People dying is never funny. Protest puppets are always funny.
Author:
Mo Rocca
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There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.
Author:
Tom Robbins
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Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.
Author:
Mordecai Richler
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The newspaper is dying. I'm not sure there will be newspapers and its one business I'd never be in.
Author:
Sumner Redstone
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The reason we have not gone to newspapers is because its a slow growth industry and I think they are dying. I'm not sure there will be newspapers in 10 years. I read newspapers every day. I even read Murdoch's Wall Street Journal.
Author:
Sumner Redstone
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Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
Author:
Ronald Reagan
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I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me.
Author:
Stephen Rea
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Meanwhile, our young men and women whose economic circumstances make military service a viable career choice are dying bravely in a war with no end in sight.
Author:
Charles Rangel
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I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another.
Author:
Richard Pryor
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It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
Author:
Marcel Proust
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I like acting for now. But after seeing Apollo 13, what I really want to do is to be an astronaut. I'm dying to go to a space camp next summer!
Author:
Natalie Portman
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With tens of thousands of patients dying every year from preventable medical errors, it is imperative that we embrace available technologies and drastically improve the way medical records are handled and processed.
Author:
Jon Porter
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They realized I was alive again, even though I was playing an old, dying sop.
Author:
Christopher Plummer
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The idea of dying and coming back is what makes the Halloween films work.
Author:
Donald Pleasence
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.
Author:
Sylvia Plath
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
Author:
S. Perelman
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He that lives to live forever, never fears dying.
Author:
William Penn
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The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.
Author:
Jean Paul
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No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.
Author:
George Patton
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She had been dying so long that I had almost come to regard her as immortal.
Author:
Thomas Page
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I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand and villainy on the other as this Writ of Assistance is.
Author:
James Otis
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Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
Author:
P. O'Rourke
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I'm dying always.
Author:
Jessye Norman
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Influenza is a serious disease. Kids die of influenza, both in Japan and the United States, and if you give a drug to people who are at risk of dying, there will be people who die who got the drug,... There is no signal the drug is doing it as opposed to the disease.
Author:
Robert Nelson
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I don't want to achieve immortality by being inducted into the Hall of Fame. I want to achieve immortality by not dying.
Author:
William Morgan
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What happens is that the system builds many inferior blood vessels in the eye to take the place of the vessels that are dying. And those blood vessels are not up to the task. And they bleed. They hemorrhage and they cover the eye inside with blood.
Author:
Mary Moore
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
Author:
Michel Montaigne
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They don't actually see the real world, where 95% of the people with HIV are not treated and are dying. And even though we have some blue sky now in our country, the sky could become cloudy again very soon.
Author:
Luc Montagnier
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Well, it seems all the fish in the rivers are dying. Could this be an act of cod?
Author:
Colin Mochrie
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Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public.
Author:
Jessica Mitford
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Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, 'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for - worth dying for.
Author:
Margaret Mitchell
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I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Author:
Spike Milligan
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The world is the mirror of myself dying.
Author:
Henry Miller
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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.
Author:
Herman Melville
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I always want to learn but I am sure on my dying day I will feel like I left something in the bucket.
Author:
Tim McGraw
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I have great luck. I'm used to people dying and going away. Not used to it exactly - but I expect it. Like, whenever people go off on a trip, I save their phone messages because I think they might die.
Author:
Rose McGowan
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If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul.
Author:
Roger McGough
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Irishmen are not reserved, and the company appeared dying to be intimately acquainted.
Author:
William Maxwell
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Living is what scares me. Dying is easy.
Author:
Charles Manson
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A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.
Author:
Thomas Mann
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The timelessness of a concept has to be woven into the running warp of dying time, vertical power has to be wedded to the horizontal earth.
Author:
Ella Maillart
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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.
Author:
Norman Mailer
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There's so many things I want to do. I want to work with great filmmakers, great actors, great scripts. And there's no reason for me to do anything short of that, because I'm 24, I don't have a family, I don't need to make tons of money, and I'm not dying to get famous.
Author:
Tobey Maguire
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A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest.
Author:
Norman MacCaig
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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
Author:
Martin Luther
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I thought about dying whenever I got bad news about other people.
Author:
Jonah Lomu
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You could hear him, literally, half a mile away when he opened up. He was at his peak then. He was, naturally, dying to get out of the place he was in, and he recorded for us his appeal for pardon to the governor.
Author:
Alan Lomax
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I don't mind dying, I'll gladly do that, but not right now, I need to clean the house first.
Author:
Astrid Lindgren
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But when I went to Hiroshima and began to study or just listen to people's descriptions of their work, it was quite clear they were talking about death all the time, about people dying all around them, about their own fear of death.
Author:
Robert Lifton
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Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.
Author:
Annie Lennox
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I know too that we Americans like to think of ourselves as cleaner than clean, a healthy nation who would never take anything when a recent poll suggested that 65 per cent of the population would risk dying in 10 years if they would be guaranteed Olympic gold.
Author:
Greg LeMond
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You know, I don't mind dying. The thing that pisses me off is that I won't get to be an old man. I was looking forward to that.
Author:
Robert Lansing
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I've played almost every lead character from Henry VI to Othello. I'm dying to tackle Richard III sometime.
Author:
Ted Lange
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I don't mind dying if I have to, but I'm damned if I want to pay for the guarantee. I'm sorry.
Author:
Michael Landon
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Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.
Author:
Charles Lamb
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I say to people who care for people who are dying, if you really love that person and want to help them, be with them when their end comes close. Sit with them - you don't even have to talk. You don't have to do anything but really be there with them.
Author:
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.
Author:
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.
Author:
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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Most of the villagers were hiding in the bush, where they were dying from bad water, malaria and malnutrition.
Author:
Nicholas Kristof
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There's been an increase in the number of Iraqis in training, but more Americans are dying and violence is increasing.
Author:
Lawrence Korb
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With Guard and Reserve units, you can end up with a lot of people from one part of the country dying in one day, and that gets people's attention.
Author:
Lawrence Korb
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I am dying of hunger.
Author:
Klaus Kinski
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Get busy living, or get busy dying.
Author:
Stephen King
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He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?
Author:
Stephen King
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But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.
Author:
Alicia Keys
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No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.
Author:
John Kennedy
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I've been dying to play.
Author:
Johnny Kelly
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I'm not afraid of turning 80 and I have lots of things to do. I don't have time for dying.
Author:
Ingvar Kamprad
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There are 38,000 people dying of hunger each day and most are children. And, being a celebrity, I communicate about it as much as I can.
Author:
Raul Julia
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Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.
Author:
Jon Jovi
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I felt good full figured. Morbidly obese I was unhealthy and dying.
Author:
Star Jones
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As the winter set in with its customary Canadian severity the real trouble of the French began. They did not suffer from the cold, but they were dying of scurvy.
Author:
Harry Johnston
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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I think I definitely got scared by the second or third time a doctor told me I was dying.
Author:
Daniel Johns
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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
Author:
St. Jerome
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I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying.
Author:
Derek Jarman
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The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?
Author:
Alice James
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Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet; in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying... Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition and die.
Author:
Ivan Illich
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We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.
Author:
Anthony Hopkins
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The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
Author:
Homer
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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.
Author:
Henry Home
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It was irritating to have one's physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one evening, once by a beautiful girl and once by a dying badger.
Author:
Tom Holt
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If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
Author:
Oliver Holmes
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Among other things they picked out a detail that Charles had been offered the Governorship of Hong Kong in its dying days by Thatcher in return for shutting up about the inner cities. He quite rightly in my view led the paper on this story.
Author:
Anthony Holden
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One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.
Author:
Dustin Hoffman
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The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying.
Author:
Edward Hoagland
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So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.
Author:
Damien Hirst
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Originally the film opened with Ryan in the doctor's office, being told his wife is dying. Then we see him walking the streets, and the story is told in flashback.
Author:
Arthur Hiller
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No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying.
Author:
Alexander Herzen
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Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for your genes.
Author:
Keith Henson
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They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
Author:
Ernest Hemingway
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Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
Author:
Arthur Helps
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There are many dying children out there whose last wish is to meet me.
Author:
David Hasselhoff
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People always say things like, Oh, well, he was suffering so much that he was better off dying. But that's not true. You're always better off living.
Author:
Dashiell Hammett
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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
Author:
Dag Hammarskjold
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I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early.
Author:
Thom Gunn
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A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know.
Author:
Stanislav Grof
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Patients reported that their psychedelic sessions were an invaluable experiential training for dying.
Author:
Stanislav Grof
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There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.
Author:
Stanislav Grof
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Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe.
Author:
Stanislav Grof
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Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.
Author:
Stanislav Grof
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I am dying with the help of too many physicians.
Author:
Alexander Great
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I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.
Author:
Alexander Great
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The entire deaths of Vietnam died in vain. And they're dying in vain right this very second. And you know what's worse than a soldier dying in vain? It's more soldiers dying in vain. That's what's worse.
Author:
Mike Gravel
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When every piece of furniture and your underwear are taken by the bank, when you lose your house in Florida, in New York, in Amsterdam and L.A., when your wife is dying and your son abandons you, you don't feel very good.
Author:
Al Goldstein
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As the plane got closer to Miami, I had this terrible feeling he was dying. Maybe he was telling me that he was going. I felt anger, panic, despair and helplessness.
Author:
Robin Gibb
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Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps.
Author:
Elizabeth George
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Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying.
Author:
Christian Gellert
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Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement.
Author:
Maggie Gallagher
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How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.
Author:
William Gaddis
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The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.
Author:
John Foster
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I play Hopkins' daughter. Brad Pitt plays Death. He's a very-good looking Death. With him, dying isn't so bad.
Author:
Claire Forlani
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I'm a child of the sixties, I'm a man of the sixties. During that period of time this country was coming apart at the seams. We were in Southeast Asia. Good men were dying for America and for the Constitution.
Author:
Curt Flood
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Dying should not be a taxable event.
Author:
Mike Fitzpatrick
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If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace.
Author:
Hamilton Fish
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A political party is dying before our eyes-and I don't mean the Democrats. I'm talking about the mainstream media, which is being destroyed by the opposition.
Author:
Howard Fineman
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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
Author:
Henry Fielding
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The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really die. I've been thinking about that a lot.
Author:
Leslie Fiedler
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A closed mind is a dying mind.
Author:
Edna Ferber
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It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We're all dying to win an Oscar.
Author:
Jerry Femina
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I was dying but suddenly had a second chance at living.
Author:
Shelley Fabares
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I'd rather be dead than dying.
Author:
Stephen Evans
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Every now and then you get a nice Jewish kid who likes black people and they would come in, and it would be a stream of them, and have black friends and really feel the black struggle on the acting tip and it's a reason why all of us are not dying in the movie.
Author:
Mike Epps
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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
Author:
Epicurus
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If I was still at school, I'd be looking at Britney Spears and dying to be her.
Author:
Sheena Easton
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He not busy being born is busy dying.
Author:
Bob Dylan
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For a person who is dying only eternity counts.
Author:
Friedrich Durrenmatt
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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.
Author:
Norman Douglas
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I know as I'm taking my dying breath, the ambulance guy will ask me why they cancelled Action.
Author:
Illeana Douglas
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Fashion is entertainment. That's why these top models are so fascinating to kids. They're dying to know about Naomi and Christy, or whoever we've declared the new one this afternoon.
Author:
Carrie Donovan
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Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest of all. Smoking is one of the principal causes of the health gap which leads to poorer people being ill more often and dying sooner.
Author:
Frank Dobson
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And what unity is to be had, at a time when orchestras are dying out, and when opera houses are about to close their doors; what's going to come next - when nothing new in music, for the orchestra, is truly lasting: pieces are performed once, and then they're thrown away.
Author:
Dietrich Dieskau
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Dying is a wild night and a new road.
Author:
Emily Dickinson
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I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and feel that I am needed. I want to do, not just to be.
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Princess Diana
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When I was starting to get noticed as an actor in the 1970s for something other than the third cowboy on the right who ended up dying in every movie or episode, Burt Reynolds was the biggest star in the world.
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Bruce Dern
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If the truth be known, we are on the verge of losing an entire generation of our young people, killing and dying in the streets of America.
Author:
Ron Dellums
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It was quite a ride and very conflicting for me, too - to be nominated for an Oscar, to be straight and healthy, and to be getting all these accolades while these people around me were suffering and dying from AIDS.
Author:
Bruce Davison
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This might be the first generation where kids are dying at a younger age than their parents and it's related primarily to the obesity problem.
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Judy Davis
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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying.
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Bette Davis
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You know, my hair is very upsetting to people, but it's upsetting on purpose. It is important to look old so that the young will not be afraid of dying. People don't like old women. We don't honor age in our society, and we certainly don't honor it in Hollywood.
Author:
Tyne Daly
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So not only can you not imagine dying, you can't really imagine existence before you were born.
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David Cronenberg
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I really connect with those moments of doing missionary work down there and just seeing the people that are dying from disease and hunger and malnutrition.
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Deborah Cox
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I hope this series is good work, but it is in the half-hour medium, which is limited to a kind of mediocrity that sponsors are just dying to have right now, and the public, for some reason, is unconsciously demanding.
Author:
Jackie Cooper
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I wanna survive an avalanche. I wanna be one of those people a dog finds buried under a ton of snow, almost dying of starvation.
Author:
Tre Cool
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If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.
Author:
Kurt Cobain
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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.
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Emile Cioran
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I'm kind of like a samurai. They say if you want to be a samurai, you can't be afraid of dying, and as soon as you flinch, you get your head cut off. I'm not afraid of losing this business.
Author:
Yvon Chouinard
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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.
Author:
Michel Certeau
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There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.
Author:
Elias Canetti
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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
Author:
Albert Camus
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People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.
Author:
Taylor Caldwell
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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.
Author:
Samuel Butler
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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
Author:
Samuel Butler
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Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
Author:
Robert Burns
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I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now - I'm booked.
Author:
George Burns
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I don't want to say, 'This is where Im going to be in five years and Im going to get there no matter what.' I want to leave it open. I'm not a desperate actress dying to star in a B movie in a bikini.
Author:
Brooke Burke
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Dying people often become childish.
Author:
Georg Buchner
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We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.
Author:
Jean Bruyere
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We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.
Author:
Jean Bruyere
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Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children.
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Gro Brundtland
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The comic page is dying; I didn't want to go with it.
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Berke Breathed
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I only really cast people who are desperate to be in it - who were dying to be in it, whose talent I believed in and were dead ready to do the work that was necessary.
Author:
Kenneth Branagh
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I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me.
Author:
Ian Botham
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To his doctrines I owe my great and glorious ambition for the sex to which I proudly belong and whose independence I shall defend until my dying day.
Author:
Rosa Bonheur
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Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.
Author:
Orlando Bloom
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Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
Author:
Otto Bismarck
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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
Author:
Buffalo Bill
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
Author:
John Berger
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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
Author:
Walter Benjamin
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No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
Author:
Samuel Beckett
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I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men.
Author:
Richard Baxter
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Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be.
Author:
Lionel Barrymore
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All is amiss. Love is dying, faith's defying, heart's denying.
Author:
Richard Barnfield
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The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.
Author:
Randy Bachman
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Latinos have fought in all of America's wars, beginning with the Revolutionary War. Many Latinos are fighting and dying for our country today in Iraq, just as several of their ancestors fought for freedom in Mexico over a century ago.
Author:
Joe Baca
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
Author:
Matthew Arnold
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President Bush says he is concerned about the Iraqi people, but if Iraqi people are dying in numbers, then American policy will be challenged very strongly.
Author:
Peter Arnett
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I am dying, Egypt, dying.
Author:
Marc Antony
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Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.
Author:
Henri Amiel
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It is up to you to decide that this has lasted long enough, that our boys are dying to serve no British interest but for the interests of a small clique of utterly unscrupulous men.
Author:
John Amery
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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.
Author:
Stewart Alsop
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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.
Author:
Woody Allen
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Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.
Author:
Woody Allen
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All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.
Author:
Scott Alexander
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This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun.
Author:
Mitch Albom
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Just dying should not be a reason for taxes.
Author:
Todd Akin
