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.

Caitlin Doughty

• American
• Death
• Dance
• Training
• Desert
• Cute

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• What happened was I saw this ad for a yogurt plant for sale. It was in my junk mail pile, and I threw it into the garbage can. And then about half an hour later, with the dirt on it, I picked it up from the garbage can, and I called out of curiosity.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • Up
  • Curiosity
  • Plant

• When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
  • Life
  • Time
  • Together

• I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Writing
  • Poetry
  • English

• I believe that if you eat well, you work even better.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Work
  • Believe
  • I Believe

• My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Dream
  • Best
  • Promise

• I've always been into sports and yoga and running. I actually study a martial arts self-defense program called Krav Maga. I can't quite say it's easy, but it's fun for me and I love to do it.

  

  Kari Matchett
  • Love
  • Fun
  • Running

• I think I will be able to, in the end, rise above the clouds and climb the stairs to Heaven, and I will look down on my beautiful life.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Heaven

• 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.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Great
  • Earth
  • Grow

• I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Man
  • Black
  • Best

• 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.

  

  Larry Page
  • World
  • Good
  • Great

• If you are a businessman or a politician in Iran, you can get a visa as quickly as you ask for it.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • You
  • Politician
  • Ask

• I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Up
  • Movies
  • Find

• I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Book
  • Think
  • Reading

• 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.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Think
  • Perfect
  • Beginning

• 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.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Time
  • Help
  • Law

• The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • inspirational
  • Measure
  • Who

• 'Baahubali's success augurs well for the Telugu film industry as a whole. It has opened up new markets.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Up
  • Success
  • Film

• When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.

  

  Irwin M. Jacobs
  • Important
  • Ideas
  • New

• Everyone has a creative impulse, and has the right to create, and should.

  

  Patti Smith

• The only thing that's ever made sense to me has been sitting in the house by myself making music.

  

  James Vincent McMorrow
  • Music
  • House

• If you think that running your economy into the ground and having to send troops in in order to prop up your only ally is leadership, then we've got a different definition of leadership.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Different
  • Thinking

• Care-Charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night,Brother to Death, in silent darkness born,Relieve my languish, and restore the light;With dark forgetting of my care return.And let the day be time enough to mournThe shipwreck of my ill adventured youth

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • Time
  • Death
  • Night

• Most companies overlook the most basic of all training functions: the onboarding of new employees into their corporate culture.

  

  Jay Samit
  • Culture
  • Training

• 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.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • American
  • Death
  • Dance