Emily Dickinson Quotes
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It is time for dead languages to be quiet.
Natalie Clifford Barney
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I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.
Edith Widder
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If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.
Salman Rushdie
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In 'Shaun of the Dead,' it's not Shaun's fault that there's a zombie apocalypse - he just has to get through the day.
Edgar Wright
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I still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk to the dead.
Daniel Day-Lewis
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The 1910 Edison film of 'Frankenstein' was itself a dead thing revived by technology.
Kage Baker
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Over the years, so many exceptions and amendments were made to China's one-child policy that it was hard to pinpoint a moment to pronounce it dead.
Barbara Demick
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We treated all of the dead with dignity.
Harry Anderson
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If we'd had another carefree 70's, I'd have been dead. It was a little too carefree, you know? I don't know how carefree they were for me, I think I was worried then, I can't remember what about.
Randy Newman
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I feel like a 16-year-old trapped inside a dead woman's body.
Tamsin Greig
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Poussey is a really huge part of 'Orange,' and I'm sure her name will always echo through the halls of Litchfield, dead or alive.
Samira Wiley
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You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.
Walt Disney
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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.
Samuel Butler
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Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.
Zane Grey
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Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.
Yeardley Smith
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My hair is naturally really thin and dead straight, with no movement.
Tamara Ecclestone
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If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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The dead don't bother with particulars.
Flannery O'Connor
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It seemed to me as we were talking about Christ rising from the dead, the sun popped over the mountain. That was indicative of Christ rising - a new day. It just makes sense.
B. R. Hayden
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It's dead - for the time being. This issue goes in cycles.
Alan Young
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The Romans feared their dead. In fact, Roman funeral customs derived from a need to propitiate the sensibilities of the departed. The very word funus may be translated as dead body, funeral ceremony, or murder. There was a genuine concern that, if not treated appropriately, the spirits of the dead, or manes, would return to wreak revenge
Catharine Arnold
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Salad freshens without enfeebling and fortifies without irritating.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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Driver had his own rules of war, and he tried to teach them to me. You know, when you clean a weapon the first rule is always clear the chamber. Not Driver. His first rule was always check to make sure it’s your weapon, so you don’t end up cleaning somebody else’s weapon.
Hal Moore
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A Bayonet's contrition is nothing to the dead.
Emily Dickinson