Poul Anderson Quotes
A man isn't really alive till he has something bigger than himself and his own little happiness, for which he'd gladly die.
Poul Anderson
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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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Many incredible artists die before they were famous.
Yoko Ono
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To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
Walt Whitman
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I know the fact that I was born means I have to die, so my only aim is to reach out and help someone along the way.
Aaron Neville
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Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.
Walker Evans
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Think about finding out when you're 13 that your dad is not your dad. It's like, okay, take it on the chin and keep going. No choice, really.
Orlando Bloom
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'Carousel,' please! I would die to do that.
Laura Osnes
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Anyone can die. Rule number one is don't get too attached to a character, anyone can go.
Jack Huston
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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.
Maeve Binchy
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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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I don't think a living being should suffer for the sake of fashion, period. End of story. You don't have to kill an animal just because you want to be hot and fly. And I really stand by that.
Taraji P. Henson
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To retire is to begin to die.
Pablo Casals
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Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day.
C. S. Forester
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To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
W. H. Auden
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Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.
Daniel Burnham
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I've been doing extremely dangerous activities for a long time, but I've been lucky enough to have survived so far. However, sooner or later we all die... and, if that's the case, I want to die doing what I love to do the most. That's how I view death.
Yuichiro Miura
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I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.
Zachary Taylor
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I have ridden in your cart, driver,waved my nude arms at villages going by,learning the last bright routes, survivorwhere your flames still bite my thighand my ribs crack where your wheels wind.A woman like that is not ashamed to die.I have been her kind.
Anne Sexton
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I can understand the Cultural Revolution of Mao Tse-tung.
Ferdinand Marcos
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Second City Las Vegas is very different from Second City in Chicago on the main stage, where they do improv sets. That's how they kind of hone material, kind of work up to new material.
Kay Cannon
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I think you write the film that you want to see, and you try and do it honestly, and you can't control people's responses, really.
Edgar Wright
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Lloyd George said the Czar only got his deserts-he had ignored the just pleas of the peasants & had shot them down ruthlessly when they came unarmed to him in 1905.
David Lloyd George
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A man isn't really alive till he has something bigger than himself and his own little happiness, for which he'd gladly die.
Poul Anderson
