Joel Rosenberg Quotes
We who are about to die, are going to take one hell of a lot of the bastards with us.
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Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.
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For thousands of years, we did have death surrounding us, and we did have people die in the home. You would take care of your own end. You would do ritual processes, and you would be involved in it, and that's been taken away in the Western world.
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I know the fact that I was born means I have to die, so my only aim is to reach out and help someone along the way.
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Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.
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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.
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Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
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The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.
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Old habits die hard. I don't like spending money willy-nilly.
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Live fast, die young.
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In politics, you never know who's going to die, retire, or - in Illinois - get indicted.
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Anyone can die. Rule number one is don't get too attached to a character, anyone can go.
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People need to take a breath and remember that it's only fashion. Relax. No one's going to die.
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Kubrick's films have life - they just never die.
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To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
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We are bits of energy floating about in various guises, and when we die we rejoin the big cosmic soup of the universe.
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To retire is to begin to die.
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Freedom. It's not something you go out and die for.
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Flowers die and wine gets consumed. Both are lovely. I appreciate both. Wine and roses. I actually had someone bring me a lobe of foie gras once.
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Once you get everything out of your head about what everybody else is going to think, will radio play it - and I hope they do, I really do - once you shed all of that and just be who you are, that's who I am. That's taken a lot of growing up. I've come into myself musically and as a woman, and I hope to keep growing. If you don't grow, you die.
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What I learned, more than anything, was that you can't have it all balanced perfectly at any one time. When I was young, it was much more balanced toward work. When I had my children, it was much more balanced toward love and family, and I didn't get a lot of work done. So you can't ask of it to be perfectly balanced at any time, but your hope is, before you die, you've somehow had each of those spheres come to life. That's probably more important than success in any one of those spheres alone.
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The purpose of teaching individualism, then, is not to make individualists but to find them. Rather, to help them find themselves. If a student takes readily to such values as the primacy of the individual, the free market place, or the immorality of taxation, he is an individualist; if he swallows hard, he must be counted a recruit for the other side.
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A pupil from whom nothing is ever demanded which he cannot do never does all he can.
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We who are about to die, are going to take one hell of a lot of the bastards with us.
