Rita Mae Brown Quotes
If you're afraid to die, you're afraid to live. You can't have one without the other.
Quotes to Explore
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I've never seen anyone die. It's hard to imagine what it would be like.
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And also, I know I have this responsibility or mission to show people, to encourage them to live their dream, too.
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Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.
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Many incredible artists die before they were famous.
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I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.
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To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
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There's something about live players that you cannot get with machines: With live musicians, you can strike a groove, you can feed off each other... And, even though somebody might make a slight mistake, it's all real!
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We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.
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I want to be back on Broadway one day. That's a dream of mine. There's nothing like live theater, and I think it's so important for me to be able to be on stage with an audience that responds.
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I'm planning to be here forever, but I know at some point I'll probably have to give it up. If you live to 100, there's a very good chance you'll live forever. Because very few people die after 100.
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The Chinese have made a faustian pact with the government, agreeing to forsake demands for political and intellectual freedom in exchange for more material comfort. They live prosperous lives in which any expression of pain is forbidden.
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We live in a culture that's been hijacked by the management consultant ethos. We want everything boiled down to a Power Point slide. We want metrics and 'show me the numbers.' That runs counter to the immensely complex nature of so many social, economic and political problems. You cannot devise an algorithm to fix them.
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India can live without nuclear weapons. That's our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.
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I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It's very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.
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I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people think a person should look like.
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'Carousel,' please! I would die to do that.
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I have matured with the realization that I can live without a man!
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I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.
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Keep working and saving and striving for a better future for your children, and for their children, even if you won't be around to see it pay off.
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Someone has to stand up and speak for the freedoms of the little guy.
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Britain is not in the single currency, and we're not going to be. But we all need the eurozone to have the right governance and structures to secure a successful currency for the long term.
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It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.
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If you're afraid to die, you're afraid to live. You can't have one without the other.
