Bernard Cornwell Quotes
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When in doubt, wear a suit. Look at male politicians: you see them in a suit, and they look fine. But if you see a picture of them on the weekend or on vacation, there's a good chance they look terrible and unstylish.
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I'm planning to be here forever, but I know at some point I'll probably have to give it up. If you live to 100, there's a very good chance you'll live forever. Because very few people die after 100.
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Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.'
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I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint - a settled sort of saint, not one who might have to suffer or die for her faith.
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In working with those who are dying, I offer another human being a spacious environment with my mind in which they can die as they need to die. I have no right to define how another person should die. I'm just there to help them transition, however they need to do it.
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We are bits of energy floating about in various guises, and when we die we rejoin the big cosmic soup of the universe.
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To retire is to begin to die.
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To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
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Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil.
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I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.
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When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
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Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent?
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Comics creators are generally screwed in life: Most of us who are fortunate enough to do comics full time - which is very few of us - will literally draw until we die because we have no employment structures intact for retirement, much less insurance!
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If your character is just out there acting a fool, viewers are gonna say, 'Why am I watching this?' But if he's whispering, 'I don't really want to die,' there's a level of vulnerability cemented in these bad characters.
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Nothing is written in stone. So don't prepare yourself for a long and lucrative career. You might die tomorrow. Your gold holdings might become dust. Just make the music you want to make now and enjoy it.
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Today's youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn't take that attitude forward with them.
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I'd like to die with my boots on.
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If you don't have dialysis, absolutely, you will die. Dialysis is actually keeping me alive.
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The letters and journals we leave behind and the impressions we have made on our contemporaries are the mere husk of the kernel of our essential life. When we die, the kernel is buried with us. This is the horror and pity of death and the reason for the inescapable triviality of biography.
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Being exposed to different production environments in Korea, Japan and the U.S. was a great experience, and each system allows you to quench your thirst in a different way.
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Gratitude looks to the past and love to the present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
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Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.
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I have heard talk and talk, but nothing is done.
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'Whoa there, lad! Whoa! Gentle now! Die well, die well.'
