Charles Dickens Quotes
And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself.
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It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions.
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I haven't got a waist. I've just got a sort of place, a bit like an unmarked level crossing.
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The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.
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I'm not a fan of people romanticizing their loved ones in death.
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The ocean-bordered southern part of California has always been a place of Hollywood make-believe, casual opulence, suntans and jewelry.
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After I was assaulted in Egypt, I learned fear. I've just never been so scared in my life. I've never been so close to death.
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The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially.
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Death in its natural state can be very beautiful. When you think about a body that's died of natural causes - family taking care of it - all of that is very beautiful.
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Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
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I cannot imagine a more enjoyable place to work than in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology where I work.
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Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.
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But who cares? I can honestly look back and realize that everything happened for a reason. Everything that fell apart has fallen back into place beautifully and magically.
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When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place.
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You can always tell an actor by the bored look in their eye whenever someone else is talking.
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Parenthood, like death, is an event for which it is nearly impossible to be prepared. It brings you into a new relationship with the fact of your own existence, a relationship in which one may be rendered helpless.
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I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted.
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There's stuff I don't like to rehearse, really emotional things, I don't like to rehearse. You just beat it to death.
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At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.
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And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly.
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I consider myself a perpetual student. You seek and learn every day: from an experiment in the lab, from reading a scientific journal, from taking care of a patient. Because of this, I rarely get bored.
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The end of life is likely to be an important focus for innovation. Most people die in hospitals, tied up with tubes and with their bodies pumped full of drugs. Yet most would rather die at home and with more control over the timing and manner of their death.
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I guess that's all forever is. Just one big long trail of nows. And I guess all you can do is try and live one now at a time without getting too worked up about the last now or the next now.
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I grew up in a reform Jewish family in St. Louis. Our idea of Judaism was no bar mitzvahs and a Christmas tree that had a skirt at the bottom embroidered with the names of my grandparents.
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And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself.
