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 -
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
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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 -
This is hip-hop. If you've got something you want to rap about, just rap about it, man.
Yelawolf -
I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
Jackie Collins -
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
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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 -
Bridget Jones has a lot to answer for.
Daisy Donovan -
Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.
E. Stanley Jones -
Chinese learning is an internal learning, but Western learning is an external one; Chinese learning is for the cultivation of oneself, just as Western learning is for the handling of worldly affairs.
Zhang Zhidong
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I've been sober now for a couple of years and I'm taking my sobriety very seriously - one day at a time and I am moving forward in my career.
Daniel Baldwin -
We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
R. Lee Ermey -
Im gonna be something one of these days.
Patsy Cline -
One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.
E. L. Doctorow -
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