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.

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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.
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To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
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Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.
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Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
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I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating.
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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.
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Choosing forgiveness opens the door of your heart and makes way for a miracle in your life.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 -
Hungary has a moral debt to the Jews that it helped send to death camps thirty years after the First World War.
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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.
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I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film.
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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.
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I hate to say this, but I'll repeat it: After death, all we know that you do is stink.
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I had a high school sweetheart that was my first. We were together all through high school. I had just broken up with him because I didn't think I was good enough. He wanted to be an anesthesiologist. I wanted to be an entertainer. His life was more planned out, and mine wasn't.
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She plunged into a sea of platitudes, and with the powerful breast stroke of a channel swimmer made her confident way towards the white cliffs of the obvious.
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I never know," Harry called to Hagrid over the noise of the cart, "What's the difference between a stalagmite and a stalactite?" "Stalagmite's got an 'm' in it," said Hagrid.
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The clatter of a changing world is not pleasant, and those who have enjoyed the comforts and protection of the old order may be shocked and unhappy when they behold the vigorous young builders of a new world sweeping away their time-honored antiquities.
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The most profound reason... why the metropolis conduces to the urge for the most individual personal existence... appears to me to be the following: the development of modern culture is characterized by the preponderance of what one may call the 'objective spirit' over the 'subjective spirit.'
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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.