Alive Quotes - Page 17

• Culture is Anarchistic if it is alive at all.

  Siva Vaidhyanathan

  Culture, Ifs

  Siva Vaidhyanathan (2005). “The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System”, p.83, Basic Books

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• Freedom to me is a luxury of being able to follow the path of the heart, to keep the magic in your life. Freedom is necessary for me in order to create, and if I cannot create I don’t feel alive.

  Joni Mitchell

  Heart, Order, Luxury

  Malka Marom, Joni Mitchell (2014). “Joni Mitchell: Both Sides Now”, p.146, Omnibus Press

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• Part of the pleasure of being alive is the knowledge that you're not dead yet.

  George Carlin

  Pleasure

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• I failed, many times in my life. One failure that I always remember was when my second book was rejected by 36 publishers. Many years later, I watched HuffPost come alive

  Arianna Huffington

  Book, Years, Remember

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• How can the poem and the stink and the grating noise - the quality of light, the tone, the habit and the dream - be set down alive?

  John Steinbeck

  Dream, Light, Quality

  John Steinbeck (1993). “Cannery Row”, p.8, Penguin

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• Death people who are still alive at this hour, must resurrect and ascend to the intellectual heaven where there is no ignorance.

  Michael Bassey

  Ignorance, People, Heaven

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• Slavish obedience to the clerics, who know how to squeeze every last drop of advantage out of religion, is killing our girls. We must speak-blaspheme, if necessary; be accused of being apostates, if that is what is required. Muslims are taught that Islam put an end to the Arabian practice of burying alive newborn baby girls because they were considered worthless and a burden, but as long as we stay quiet in the face of the abomination of child marriage, we are effectively burying our girls alive today.

  Mona Eltahawy

  Girl, Baby, Children

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• In the middle years of childhood, it is more important to keep alive and glowing the interest in finding out and to support this interest with skills and techniques related to the process of finding out than to specify any particular piece of subject matter as inviolate.

  Dorothy H Cohen

  Learning, Years, Skills

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• Edgar Wayburn has worked to preserve the most breath-taking examples of the American landscape. In fact, over the course of more than a half-century, both as President of the Sierra Club and as a private citizen, he has saved more of our wilderness than any person alive.

  William J. Clinton

  President, Example, Citizens

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• If you are alive and healty, you must know that this is your greatest success and your greatest chance in life! Celebrate this success with all your heart, with all your gratitude!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Success, Gratitude

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• It is a source of happiness to see the elderly working in their garden or looking from their windows! It is so good to see them alive and well!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Happiness, Garden, Elderly

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• There is no soul; there is only consciousness, the highest thing man ever has! Losing the conscious means to die! Death is not a door; when our conscious is gone, all is gone! Only the existence has the doors! Only the life presents you doors! You can save yourself only when you are alive, not after because there is no after! The first step for salvation is to know this simple truth!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Mean, Simple

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• To die for a cause is insanity; man's greatest cause is to live; his biggest purpose is to stay alive! Only fools die for a cause! Which cause can be superior to man's life?

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Men, Insanity

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• We also have people dying longer, we are able to keep people alive without much quality of life in many cases. We haven't done a great job of making healthspan match up with lifespan, which is both miserable and unbelievably costly - and frightening.

  Ken Dychtwald

  Life, Jobs, People

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• You know it's always funny - the more legend awards you get, the closer you get to the grave, I guess, i am going full strength right now so it's great to get these while you're alive, I'd hate to get them after you're dead.

  Alice Cooper

  Strength, Hate, Awards

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• A close friend of mine, Annie Leibovitz, who I've known for forty years, photographs celebrities every single day of the week but they all seem to look the same even though she's one of the most creative photographers alive. They all just look the same. Brad Pitt is a great actor but all the pictures of Brad Pitt look the same.

  Lawrence Schiller

  Years, Creative, Looks

  "Photographer of Marilyn Monroe's Famous Nude Photos Discusses the Icon's Calculated Bid for Publicity and Her Final Days (Q&A)". Interview with Degen Pener, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 18, 2011.

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• Ah, what shall I be at fifty,
  should nature keep me alive,
  if I find the world so bitter
  when I am but twenty-five?

  Alfred the Great

  Nature, Twenties, World

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• Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America's water pollution. Two years ago, Pfiesteria outbreaks connected with wastes from industrial chicken factories forced the closure of two major tributaries of the Chesapeake and threatened Maryland's vital shellfish industry. Tyson Foods has polluted half of all streams in northwestern Arkansas with so much fecal bacteria that swimming is prohibited. Drugs and hormones needed to keep confined animals alive and growing are mainly excreted with the wastes and saturate local waterways.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Swimming, Animal, Agriculture

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• I tell the gods are still alive / And they are not consoling.

  May Sarton

  God, Consoling, Stills

  May Sarton (2014). “Collected Poems: 1930–1993”, p.329, Open Road Media

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• It is in the name of Jesus, himself become God, that fanaticism ignominiously condemned to the stake men like Giodano Bruno, Vanini, Étienne Dolet, John Huss, Savanarola, and numerous other heroic victims; that the Inquisition ordered Galileo to belie his conscience; that thousands and thousands of unfortunates accused of witchcraft were burnt alive in popular ceremonies; it was with the express benediction of Pope Gregory XIII that the butchery of St. Bartholomew drenched Paris in blood.

  Camille Flammarion

  Religious, Jesus, Men

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• I think Elvis would be alive today, probably, if he had been allowed to mix and mingle with his fans. I think it was a great cross for him to bear that he couldn't get out and be with his fans.

  Minnie Pearl

  Thinking, Live For Today, Fans

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• Happiness is never a negative affair; it is to be won by men who are fully alive, full of the joy of living

  Aga Khan III

  Men, Joy, Negative

  Aga Khan III (1998). “Aga Khan III: Selected Speeches and Writings of Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah”

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• The patriarchy is alive and well in Egypt and the wider Arab world.

  Shereen El Feki

  Egypt, World, Wells

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• We are a collage of our interests, our influences, our inspirations, all the fragmentary impressions we've collected by being alive and awake to the world. Who we "are" is simply a finely curated catalog of those.

  Maria Popova

  Inspiration, World, Who We Are

  "Literature is the original Internet". Interview with Max Tholl, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. August 25, 2014.

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• If you look up at the sky after falling down the blue sky is also today stretching limitlessly and smiles at me... I'm alive.

  Aya Kito

  Fall, Sky, Blue

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