Jack Kevorkian Quotes
I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.
Quotes to Explore
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We are not going to turn our backs on people who have been persecuted, turn our backs on people who have been threatened by terror.
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The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
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Women with minimal access to resources and no access to child care have limited choices that too often mean low-wage and part-time labor. In rural communities in the developing world, when women farmers have unequal access to fertilizers or training, their farm productivity lags behind men.
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There are moments when I can't believe I'm as old as I am. But I feel better physically than I did 10 years ago. I don't think, Oh God, I'm missing something.
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When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, 'No one can outwork you.'
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I know how to read people. When you grow up in a rough environment, you have to have a sixth sense.
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The crown of literature is poetry.
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The smartest thing I ever did as a writer was hire a retired conservation agent to blaze a hiking trail for me. It's nothing fancy - just a narrow path that meanders for a little over a mile through the woods near my home. But that trail through the trees has become my therapist, my personal trainer, and my best editor.
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I do suspect that this world is hell.
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We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children.
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Fear is the passion of slaves.
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I feel fine about getting older because I'm in good shape. I'm 64 and I feel good.
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Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.
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It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
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It was just really odd to be in a room with Ian McKellen sharing cucumber sandwiches.
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I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.
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Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.
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Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
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People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.
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Everything considered, a determined soul will always manage.
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One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.
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Fundamental to everything the ancient Greeks achieved was their conviction that good for humanity was possible only if men were free, body, mind, and spirit, and if each man limited his own freedom. A good state or work of art or piece of thinking was possible only through the self-mastery of the free individual, self-government.
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I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.
