Conrad Aiken Quotes
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It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
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Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me.
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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.
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Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
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The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.
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People die because they find living too painful.
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I came to Hollywood determined to follow in Jean Harlow's footsteps, but I was determined not to die young. My hope was to endure. And endure I have.
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Live fast, die young.
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Anyone can die. Rule number one is don't get too attached to a character, anyone can go.
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To retire is to begin to die.
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Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
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Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.
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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.
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When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
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When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
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We like lists because we don't want to die.
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At that time I was making the largest salary known on television and I didn't want to see it die because those were the years paying off when I wasn't making anything.
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When you have been born in a war like me, living in a war as a child, when you have been in wars as a war correspondent all your life - trust me! You develop a form of fatalism; you are always ready to die.
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I believe in a core set of fundamental Republican values.
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I'm a part of your life. You might not know it, but I am.
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I think making friends is not being afraid to look stupid, because everyone wants a friend who is willing to be stupid and fun. If you try and be too cool, it only works in high school. After that, being uncool is a very cool thing to do. So just have fun, and don't worry what other people think of you and people will want to be your friends.
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Six decades ago, as Mao's Communists seized power, the question in Washington was, 'Who lost China?' Now, as his capitalist descendants stand astride the world stage and Washington worries about decline, it seems to be, 'Who lost America?'
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The way Stanley Kubrick tells a story is antithetical to the way we are accustomed to receiving stories.
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'When you are dead your spirit will find my spirit,And then we shall die no more.'
