Drew Gilpin Faust Quotes
Of all living things, only humans consciously anticipate death; the consequent need to choose how to behave in its face - to worry about how to die - distinguishes us from other animals. The need to manage death is the particular lot of humanity.Drew Gilpin Faust
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Track and field was very big when I was growing up.
Usain Bolt -
I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
Larry Wilmore -
I completely get the drag thing.
Taron Egerton -
I think of myself as a producer who tries to bring the best out of everyone, whether that be an artist, songwriter or a publicist.
L.A. Reid -
And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.
Laura Prepon -
Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
H. L. Mencken
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No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
H. P. Lovecraft -
Identify your niche and dominate it. And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.
Nate Parker -
Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
Taslima Nasrin -
I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'
Ted Danson -
Together, Amazon and I are giving readers what they want - inexpensive, professional ebooks.
J. A. Konrath -
Before 2000, we were unable to design a single car; all the cars were designed in Japan, Europe or somewhere else. We were just converting.
Baba Kalyani
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New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
Zubin Mehta -
My guilty pleasure is I like to watch a lot of HGTV. I really like watching design shows about houses, like extreme homes. Like buying a bridge and turning it into a house or something like that. I really am interested in home design or something like that... architecture.
Taylor Schilling -
At its very best, the Western model speaks for itself. It's the model that put food on the table. It's the refrigerators. It put a man on the moon.
Dambisa Moyo -
We can't stop anybody from doing what they want to do.
Quavo Migos -
If I had different parents who were in it for the money, I might have a different perspective. But they really are artists; they intelligently approach each character and prepare in every sense of the word. I grew up in a world that had great discipline.
Laura Dern -
A woman in show business isn't honest with herself... so how can she be honest with another woman? We are, all of us, acting every minute of the day and night.
Ida Lupino
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Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his 'death,' whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of the individual names or not. There is no such thing as death according to our view!
Martin Bormann -
Above all, faith is grounded in one's body, in one's humanity, and in one's animal nature. It is an biological phenomenon and not a psychic creation.
Alexander Lowen -
I love to be outside.
Christen Press -
It's hard to dance to really fast music. All you can do is pump your fist to it, and after a while, you're going to have a seizure.
Kiesa Rae Ellestad -
Of all living things, only humans consciously anticipate death; the consequent need to choose how to behave in its face - to worry about how to die - distinguishes us from other animals. The need to manage death is the particular lot of humanity.
Drew Gilpin Faust