Brian Patten Quotes
How long is a man’s life, finally? Is it a thousand days, or only one? One week, or a few centuries? How long does a man’s death last? And what do we mean when we say, ‘gone forever’?Brian Patten
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People think I am America's party girl, which is just stupid. I have done 24 movies and I am creating my own TV show.
Tara Reid -
Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.
Dag Hammarskjold -
Better treatment and detection methods have also improved the survival rate for people with cancer, and for the first time in history, this year the absolute number of cancer deaths in the U.S. has decreased.
Ike Skelton -
I don't really set out to please anybody, and I don't think I ever have. I have occasionally been encouraged to try to write something specifically for the purpose of releasing it as a single to get radio play. Those are not my best songs, as a rule.
Ian Anderson -
My first album was completed in three months.
Adam Lambert -
A lot of my work concerns a crisis of agency - what can we do?
Natalie Jeremijenko
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I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
Bahman Ghobadi -
Cultists do not want to admit they have been manipulated by charisma. Nigerian money scheme victims do not want to accept that they had been swindled. To accept those realities is to accept their own faults. Denial of our own weaknesses is something we all suffer from time to time.
Pamela Meyer -
Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.
Eduardo Chillida -
This is hip-hop. If you've got something you want to rap about, just rap about it, man.
Yelawolf -
All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.
Dalai Lama -
I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
Jackie Collins
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The neighbors could be as mad as they want, but I'm not running a business at the house. It's just a location. It will never get me out of here, because I don't have offices set up at my house, and that's what the township thinks.
Bam Margera -
I love to smoke things; there's usually something always in the pot outside. That smell of something in the smoker just reminds me of home.
Zac Brown Band -
We can climb mountains with self-love.
Samira Wiley -
We lie more to strangers than we lie to co-workers. Extroverts lie more than introverts. Men lie eight times more about themselves than they do other people. Women lie more to protect other people.
Pamela Meyer -
Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.
Fiona Shaw -
Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.
Paracelsus
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My dad's a firefighter, so I know what it's like for policemen and firefighters to be on their own on Christmas Day.
J. J. Watt -
I always try to remain aware that what affects others affects me, too.
Forest Whitaker -
You know, I used to say, when people say, 'How do you think about what to write about in the poems every week?' And I say, 'Well, I have to turn it in on Monday, so on Sunday nights I turn the shower to iambic pentameter and it sort of works out that way.'
Calvin Trillin -
They're asking women to do impossible things. I don't believe women can carry a pack, live in a foxhole, or go a week without a bath.
William Westmoreland -
Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on their instrument in the bedroom with all their spare time. That's traditionally how people learn.
Gary Burton -
How long is a man’s life, finally? Is it a thousand days, or only one? One week, or a few centuries? How long does a man’s death last? And what do we mean when we say, ‘gone forever’?
Brian Patten