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"People think celebrities don't have to worry about human things like sickness and death and rent. It's like you've traveled to this Land of Celebrity, this other country. They want you to tell about what you saw."
David Duchovny
"People think celebrities don't have to worry about human things like sickness and death and rent. It's like you've traveled to this Land of Celebrity, this other country. They want you to tell about what you saw."
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"To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death."
Sammy Davis, Jr.
"To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death."
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"Marriage is the death of hope."
Woody Allen
"Marriage is the death of hope."
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"To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death."
Garrett Fort
"To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death."
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"I'm watching the Weather Channel more than I've ever watched it. I'm scared to death it's going to rain."
John Elway
"I'm watching the Weather Channel more than I've ever watched it. I'm scared to death it's going to rain."
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"The life of men and women is so cheap and property is so sacred. There are so many of us for one job it matters little if 146 of us are burned to death."
Rose Schneiderman
"The life of men and women is so cheap and property is so sacred. There are so many of us for one job it matters little if 146 of us are burned to death."
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"They say the death of a parent puts you in time because that means there's now no generation standing between you and ordinary death: you're next. I don't buy it."
Bruce Jackson
"They say the death of a parent puts you in time because that means there's now no generation standing between you and ordinary death: you're next. I don't buy it."
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"Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, don't make it there, and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death."
Stevie Ray Vaughan
"Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, don't make it there, and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death."
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"For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough."
Tammy Bruce
"For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough."
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"Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you."
Georg Hermes
"Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you."
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"McVeigh's lawyer got him the death penalty, which, quite frankly, I could have done."
Jon Stewart
"McVeigh's lawyer got him the death penalty, which, quite frankly, I could have done."
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"Australia as a nation, as a set of cities and some regional centres, that project died a death and we didn't get it up, but I still think there's merit in that."
Susan Oliver
"Australia as a nation, as a set of cities and some regional centres, that project died a death and we didn't get it up, but I still think there's merit in that."
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"I am deeply saddened by the death of my dear friend, Dudley Moore."
Liza Minnelli
"I am deeply saddened by the death of my dear friend, Dudley Moore."
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"Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six."
Leo Tolstoy
"Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six."
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"For in the works of Robert Burns we see the whole cosmos of man's experience and emotion, from zenith to nadir, from birth until death."
Len G. Murray
"For in the works of Robert Burns we see the whole cosmos of man's experience and emotion, from zenith to nadir, from birth until death."
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"If you do anything for too long, it starts to lack edge, to become too easy. Easy is the kiss of death."
Julia Ormond
"If you do anything for too long, it starts to lack edge, to become too easy. Easy is the kiss of death."
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"Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority."
Edward Young
"Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority."
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"If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear."
J. B. Priestley
"If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear."
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"To me, it's the kiss of death when you start winking at the audience as an actor. I just never liked it. I don't like it when we do monologues, looking into the character."
Thomas Jane
"To me, it's the kiss of death when you start winking at the audience as an actor. I just never liked it. I don't like it when we do monologues, looking into the character."
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"When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans can't afford, they are condemning good people to death."
Tammy Bruce
"When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans can't afford, they are condemning good people to death."
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"This death cult has no reason and is beyond negotiation. This is what makes it so frightening. This is what causes so many to engage in a sort of mental diversion. They don't want to confront this horror. So they rush off in search of more comprehensible things to hate."
David Brooks
"This death cult has no reason and is beyond negotiation. This is what makes it so frightening. This is what causes so many to engage in a sort of mental diversion. They don't want to confront this horror. So they rush off in search of more comprehensible things to hate."
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"Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death."
Pearl S. Buck
"Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death."
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"Now is not the time to compromise on the economy. Instead, we should be doing everything in our power to support long-term economic growth. Permanent repeal of the death tax will mean more high-quality, high-paying jobs for Americans."
Todd Tiahrt
"Now is not the time to compromise on the economy. Instead, we should be doing everything in our power to support long-term economic growth. Permanent repeal of the death tax will mean more high-quality, high-paying jobs for Americans."
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"Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light."
James Russell Lowell
"Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light."
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"We're so afraid of death in our culture, but I think if we understand it better, then we'll appreciate the life we have more."
Naomi Watts
"We're so afraid of death in our culture, but I think if we understand it better, then we'll appreciate the life we have more."
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"She's not happy about the life she is living but to jump through the hoop would mean to succumb to death."
Kit Williams
"She's not happy about the life she is living but to jump through the hoop would mean to succumb to death."
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"If you think of life and death on a continuum, finding the point where it tips is complicated. It cuts across all political lines and gets to the root of our humanity. It requires faith informed by years of intimacy that you're doing what's right for your loved one."
Eleanor Clift
"If you think of life and death on a continuum, finding the point where it tips is complicated. It cuts across all political lines and gets to the root of our humanity. It requires faith informed by years of intimacy that you're doing what's right for your loved one."
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"The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality."
Florence Nightingale
"The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality."
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"We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind."
Thornton Wilder
"We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind."
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"I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging."
L. Neil Smith
"I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging."
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"The single moment when I knew that I had to get busy and do more was around the death of my son."
Bobby Rush
"The single moment when I knew that I had to get busy and do more was around the death of my son."
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"Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste."
Harold Brodkey
"Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste."
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"We have 62 counties in New York State and each has its own system of death investigation."
Michael Baden
"We have 62 counties in New York State and each has its own system of death investigation."
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"My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled."
Jean Racine
"My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled."
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"God grant you all your desires and accept my own hearty thanks for all your attention to me. Although indeed, those attentions have tried me more than death can now terrify me."
Jane Grey
"God grant you all your desires and accept my own hearty thanks for all your attention to me. Although indeed, those attentions have tried me more than death can now terrify me."
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"It is long since I could have adventured on eternity, through God's mercy and Christ's merits; but death remained somewhat terrible, and that now is taken away; and now death is no more to me, but to cast myself into my husband's arms, and to lie down with Him."
Donald Cargill
"It is long since I could have adventured on eternity, through God's mercy and Christ's merits; but death remained somewhat terrible, and that now is taken away; and now death is no more to me, but to cast myself into my husband's arms, and to lie down with Him."
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"And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death."
William C. Bryant
"And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death."
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"Better be killed than frightened to death."
Robert Smith Surtees
"Better be killed than frightened to death."
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"'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death."
Marquis de Sade
"'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death."
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"Life and death have been lacking in my life."
Jorge Luis Borges
"Life and death have been lacking in my life."
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"Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death."
Curt Schilling
"Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death."
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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."
Frank Dobson
"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."
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"If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death."
Samuel Butler
"If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death."
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"Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth."
Ernest Hemingway
"Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth."
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"There is only one dream I can guarantee... my death."
Stephen Evans
"There is only one dream I can guarantee... my death."
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"It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death."
Jacqueline Cochran
"It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death."
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"It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous."
Gloria Steinem
"It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous."
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"The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying."
Jean Paul
"The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying."
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"I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I will enforce the law as this Congress gives it to us."
Eric Holder
"I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I will enforce the law as this Congress gives it to us."
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"Now I have finished with all earthly business, and high time too. Yes, yes, my dear child, now comes death."
Franz Lehar
"Now I have finished with all earthly business, and high time too. Yes, yes, my dear child, now comes death."
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