W. L. George Quotes
It is not age which killed Boston, for no cities die of age; it is the youth of other cities.
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It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
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Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.
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Many incredible artists die before they were famous.
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To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
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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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I am writing to all the churches to let it be known that I will gladly die for God if only you do not stand in my way... Let me be food for the wild beasts, for they are my way to God.
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To retire is to begin to die.
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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.
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Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.
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Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent?
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Today's youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn't take that attitude forward with them.
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I don't want to die thinking I've only done one thing in my life.
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I'm not driven to get back into politics. It's not on my top five things to do before I die, but saying that, I may be in politics in the next year or the next ten years. I've been on the front line for 12 years, four in state government, eight on the national level.
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I'd like to die with my boots on.
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I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth. Whether I shall ever be better I can not tell; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible; I must die or be better, it appears to me.
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'Poor humans; they will all die.''Poor us; we will not.'
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When you're a stand-up comic, you live and die by what you say on stage. There's no director or writer or producer who can tell you what to say and not to say. Once in a while, a club owner will ask a comic to work clean, or not say something, but that's few and far between.
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All wishes are not idle, nor in vain fulfilment we devise - for pain is pain, not for itself to be desired, but ill; or else to strive or to subdue the will alike were graceless; and of Evil this alone is deadly certain: Evil is.
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Sure there's a percentage of people who are like, "It snowed in May. I don't believe in climate change." Well, that's crazy, but that's always gonna be the case. I suppose if climate change happens much faster than even the dire experts predict, then I suppose opinions will change.
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I behave in public like I behave in private.
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If facts weren't funny, or scary, or couldn't make you rich, the heck with them.
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It is not age which killed Boston, for no cities die of age; it is the youth of other cities.
