Leo Kottke Quotes

I was taking a nose dive somewhere between eleven and twelve because my sister had died and I was practicing something that siblings do which is follow in their footsteps and die as well.

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• Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • People
  • Die
  • Waiting

• I've always wanted to be an actress, ever since I was a little girl. I've always played the mom and I play my sister as the daughter. I wanted to be an actress on television and movies instead of just around the house.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • House
  • Girl
  • Mom

• I know the fact that I was born means I have to die, so my only aim is to reach out and help someone along the way.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Help
  • Know
  • Die

• Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Long
  • Die
  • Listen

• It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
  • Die
  • Chance
  • Finding

• Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Die
  • Wisdom
  • Tomorrow

• My death is incidental, and I worry very much about my loved ones and, you know, would like to make it as easy as possible for them. Or wish I could will away whatever, you know, the sadness they will feel when I die. But for me, nothing. The world goes on.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • World
  • Death
  • Die

• Live fast, die young.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Live
  • Die
  • Fast

• My sister, singer Jessie Ware, and I are always exchanging music. We brainstormed her wedding playlist for months.

  

  Hannah Ware
  • Music
  • Sister
  • Wedding

• Well, I have a sister that I'm very close with, and that relationship is probably the most intense relationship of my life to date, probably of my life, period.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Life
  • Relationship
  • Period

• I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint - a settled sort of saint, not one who might have to suffer or die for her faith.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Faith
  • Die
  • Famous

• To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Evil
  • Brother
  • Sister

• It was about 2012, 2013. I started from zero. Small fashion shows, small photoshoots. I've seen a lot. I've seen a lot of things up close. I married my sister off; I gave jahez for her wedding. I tried to keep relations going with my family. I bought a house for them in Multan. My parents are settled in Multan; my house is there.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Up
  • Family
  • House

• Don't let the secret recipe die with the inventor.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Die
  • Secret
  • Recipe

• I cannot emphasize just how dangerous it is cycling in the city. Especially now. Even though it is against the law to do this, you'll see people texting while they drive.

  

  Dan Hill
  • People
  • Law
  • City

• 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.

  

  Zendaya
  • Live
  • Me
  • Die

• I did not move to New York with a plan. The first time I moved to New York, I just popped up. My sister was living here in New York. I just popped up. She had her baby and a husband, and I just popped up. 'Hey, what's up? I got $200 and dreams. Let's do this.'

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Up
  • Time
  • She

• I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Die
  • Helping
  • Patient

• When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn't believe that we were mortal.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Believe
  • Mother
  • Father

• I started my career in the U.S. military. Traditionally, in the military... you either start with a technical background or a more leadership-focused one. I took the leadership path.

  

  Keith Kellogg
  • Career
  • Military
  • Path

• For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it.

  

  Wim Wenders
  • Movie
  • Culture

• If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.

  

  Morris Raphael Cohen
  • Cannot
  • Effective
  • Restraint

• I was taking a nose dive somewhere between eleven and twelve because my sister had died and I was practicing something that siblings do which is follow in their footsteps and die as well.

  

  Leo Kottke
  • Die
  • Sister