Caitlin Doughty Quotes
The death industry markets caskets and embalming under the rubric of helping bodies look 'natural,' but our current death customs are as natural as training majestic creatures like bears and elephants to dance in cute little outfits, or erecting replicas of the Eiffel Tower and Venetian canals in the middle of the harsh American desert.
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I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.
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I believe that if you eat well, you work even better.
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When humans become gods, when our wings grow so great as to beat about the very edges of the earth, no one can answer but us.
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I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.
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My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
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If you are a businessman or a politician in Iran, you can get a visa as quickly as you ask for it.
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I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
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Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.
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The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
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'Baahubali's success augurs well for the Telugu film industry as a whole. It has opened up new markets.
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When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.
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People, me included, have a truly emotional thing about this iPad.
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Ultimately, all human beings fulfill their patterns. We're set in a certain archetype, and we fulfill that destiny.
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A career is a job you love, right? That's what a career should be. If you're in a job that you hate, you should quit. That's the way I look at it. I'm in a job that I love, so I'm going to make it my career.
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Personally, I really enjoy sci-fi. I watch it, I read comic books, and I play video games. I love this kind of world, so to be able to work in it is a dream. I enjoy it. It's all good.
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I used to love going and playing jam sessions, doing things spontaneously. I can't do that anymore. Everything you do is documented, nothing is casual anymore.
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I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.
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'Can You See' is a beautiful song that follows a story of the star. It's a very inspirational song.
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St.Patrick's Day is named for St. Patrick, the first guy to feed Guinness to a snake.
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I didn't expect to enter into tabloid trivia or anything like that. So I suspect my perspective and a lot of my ideas changed fairly drastically. It was also rather confusing.
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I've got a collection of songs that I've had, I keep adding to and they're all great American composers. I wanted to showcase American composers and I've done that on a lot of my records and played things by American composers that I really respect.
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Great is the rose Infected by the tomb, Yet burgeoning Indifferent to death.
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The death industry markets caskets and embalming under the rubric of helping bodies look 'natural,' but our current death customs are as natural as training majestic creatures like bears and elephants to dance in cute little outfits, or erecting replicas of the Eiffel Tower and Venetian canals in the middle of the harsh American desert.
