Mario Van Peebles Quotes
We think birth is a miracle and death is a tragedy, but really they're flip sides of the same coin - anything born is gonna die.
Mario Van Peebles
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For thousands of years, we did have death surrounding us, and we did have people die in the home. You would take care of your own end. You would do ritual processes, and you would be involved in it, and that's been taken away in the Western world.
Caitlin Doughty
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To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
Walt Whitman
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Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.
Walker Evans
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Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
Pablo Picasso
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Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
Patrick Henry
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I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating.
Viggo Mortensen
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Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.
Eckhart Tolle
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Choosing forgiveness opens the door of your heart and makes way for a miracle in your life.
Victoria Osteen
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When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once.
Samuel Butler
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When it comes to jump-starting the intricate machinery of recollection, there's nothing more effective than the scent of approaching death.
Gary Krist
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There's stuff I don't like to rehearse, really emotional things, I don't like to rehearse. You just beat it to death.
Kat Dennings
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I'll be making music 'til the day I die. I've done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.
Eddie Van Halen
Van Halen
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God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.
Saint Ambrose
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But when it really happens I'm very fascinated, I'm waiting for the moment, because the moment where life abandons you and death steps in, that moment must be fantastic, no?
Nastassja Kinski
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Hungary has a moral debt to the Jews that it helped send to death camps thirty years after the First World War.
Viktor Orban
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I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.
Florynce Kennedy
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I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film.
Ralph Bakshi
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Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
H. L. Mencken
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I hate to say this, but I'll repeat it: After death, all we know that you do is stink.
Jack Kevorkian
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Let them kill Nasser! What is Nasser but one among many? I am alive, and even if I die, all of you are Gamal Abdul Nasser!
Gamal Abdel Nasser
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Do for this life as if you live forever, do for the afterlife as if you die tomorrow.
Ali ibn Abi Talib
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Mark Twain
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Only once in Chopin's music is there a direct reference to Bach, and that is, appropriately, at the beginning of his only educational work, the two sets of Etudes, Op. 10 and 25, and the three Nouvelles Etudes for Moscheles. In the first Etude, Op. 10, in C major, we find a modernized version of the Prelude no. 1 of the Well-Tempered Keyboard...
Charles Rosen
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We think birth is a miracle and death is a tragedy, but really they're flip sides of the same coin - anything born is gonna die.
Mario Van Peebles
