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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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
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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.
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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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When you have been born in a war like me, living in a war as a child, when you have been in wars as a war correspondent all your life - trust me! You develop a form of fatalism; you are always ready to die.
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'In the light, the earth remains our first and our last love. Our brothers are breathing under the same sky as we; justice is a living thing. Now is born that strange joy which helps one live and die, and which we shall never again postpone to a later time.'
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Plenty of people detested Michael Jackson before his death wiped away the world's collective memory. Timberlake was originally dismissed as just another boy-bander. Legions have joined in a 'Hate Anne Hathaway' movement. Elvis, the Rolling Stones, Kristen Bell, even Mozart had haters.
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Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.
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A ramshackle old empire.
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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.
