Patty Duke Quotes

The doctors must tell you that one of the risks of surgery is that you might die. This poor doctor was talking to an actress. It was very dramatic to me. To him, it was just a thing he had to say.

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• It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

  

  Victor Hugo
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• Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • People
  • Die
  • Waiting

• Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Long
  • Die
  • Listen

• It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
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  • Chance
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• Old habits die hard. I don't like spending money willy-nilly.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Money
  • Die
  • Habits

• In politics, you never know who's going to die, retire, or - in Illinois - get indicted.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • Know
  • Die
  • Politics

• In working with those who are dying, I offer another human being a spacious environment with my mind in which they can die as they need to die. I have no right to define how another person should die. I'm just there to help them transition, however they need to do it.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Mind
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  • Die

• The hunger to win must not die... The appetite has to remain big.

  

  Kapil Dev
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  • Win
  • Hunger

• I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Believe
  • Die
  • I Believe

• Don't let the secret recipe die with the inventor.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Die
  • Secret
  • Recipe

• I've had a lot of voices tell me what I should be making. Personally, I would much rather live and die by my own hand. If my stuff sucks, then at least I made it suck. I didn't allow some person, some old dude in a suit, to make it suck for me.

  

  Zendaya
  • Live
  • Me
  • Die

• 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
  • Work
  • Long
  • High

• The minute your parents die, you stop fighting them. I realized the more I changed my face for films, the more I looked like him. I always liked to disguise myself because I was trying to run away from his image. But all that is not worth it.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Trying
  • Parents
  • Stop

• I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Die
  • Helping
  • Patient

• When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn't believe that we were mortal.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Believe
  • Mother
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• I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
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  • Film
  • Animation

• Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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  • Men
  • Women

• At that time I was making the largest salary known on television and I didn't want to see it die because those were the years paying off when I wasn't making anything.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Time
  • Die
  • Television

• Every religious tradition is rooted in mysteries I don't pretend to understand, including claims about what happens after we die. But this I know for sure: as long as we're alive, choosing resurrection is always worth the risk.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Long
  • Die
  • Religious

• If we are not willing to wake up in the morning and die to ourselves, perhaps we should ask ourselves whether or not we are really following Jesus.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Up
  • Die
  • Morning

• Zwei sehr verschiedene Tugenden können einander lange und scharf befehden; der Augenblick bleibt nicht aus, in dem sie erkennen, daß sie Schwestern sind.

  

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

• Told ya. Born lucky - lucky and handsome. And today I'm gonna be free.

  

  Doug McClure
  • Today
  • Free
  • Born

• I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • People
  • Perfect
  • Cold

• The doctors must tell you that one of the risks of surgery is that you might die. This poor doctor was talking to an actress. It was very dramatic to me. To him, it was just a thing he had to say.

  

  Patty Duke
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