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Dying Quotes

"Dying should not be a taxable event."

"Dying should not be a taxable event."

Mike Fitzpatrick, American Politician

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"They realized I was alive again, even though I was playing an old, dying sop."

"They realized I was alive again, even though I was playing an old, dying sop."

Christopher Plummer, Canadian Actor

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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."

"I don't mind dying if I have to, but I'm damned if I want to pay for the guarantee. I'm sorry."

Michael Landon, American Actor

Dying, Mind, Want

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"I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens."

"I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens."

Spike Milligan, Irish Comedian

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"Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth."

"Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth."

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, American Psychologist

Dying, Earth, End

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"I'm dying to get back in front of the cameras. I miss it like crazy."

"I'm dying to get back in front of the cameras. I miss it like crazy."

Holly Valance, Australian Musician

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"I am dying of hunger."

"I am dying of hunger."

Klaus Kinski, German Actor

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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."

"I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung."

Kate Smith, American Musician

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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."

"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."

Carrie Donovan, American Editor

Dying, Entertainment, Fashion, Kids

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"With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying."

"With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying."

Bette Davis, American Actress

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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."

"If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party."

Dag Hammarskjold, Swedish Diplomat

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"And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying."

"And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying."

Christina Rossetti, British Poet

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"Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when."

"Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when."

Philip Roth, American Novelist

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"A person starts dying when they stop dreaming."

"A person starts dying when they stop dreaming."

Brian Williams, American Journalist

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"A closed mind is a dying mind."

"A closed mind is a dying mind."

Edna Ferber, American Novelist

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"To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all."

"To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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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."

"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."

Robert Lansing, American Politician

Dying, Man, Mind, Old

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"It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We're all dying to win an Oscar."

"It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We're all dying to win an Oscar."

Jerry Della Femina, American Businessman

Dying, Hollywood

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"I've been dying to play."

"I've been dying to play."

Johnny Kelly, American Musician

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"I am dying, Egypt, dying."

"I am dying, Egypt, dying."

Marc Antony, Roman Politician

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"Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?"

"Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?"

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying."

"Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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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."

"This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

Dying, End, Man, Sun

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