Died Quotes - Page 8

It's an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know.

Pete Townshend

Ordinary Days, Brian, Knows

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I was just thinking of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe and how young they were when they died. I would like to be a pop icon who survives. I would like to be a living icon.

John Travolta

Thinking, Icons, Dean

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My musical development stopped when Frank Sinatra died.

Alex Trebek

Musical, Development, Frank

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One of the few times I saw my mother cry was when Lennon died, and the other time was when Elvis died.

Sam Taylor-Wood

Mother, Saws, Cry

"Sam Taylor-Wood: Director of Nowhere Boy". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 8, 2010.

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On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.

Gore Vidal

Debtors, United States, Literature

Gore Vidal (1992). “The Decline and Fall of the American Empire”

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Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.

Diana Vreeland

Tables, Dinner, Poor

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I did not want to raise a genetically compromised child. I did not want my children to have to contend with the massive diversion of parental attention, and the consequences of being compelled to care for their brother after I died. I wanted a genetically perfect baby, and because that was something I could control, I chose to end his life.

Ayelet Waldman

Baby, Brother, Children

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I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with.

Andy Warhol

Artist, Wish, Stills

Andy Warhol (1985). “America”, Harpercollins Childrens Books

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I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'

Andy Warhol

Tombstone, Artist, Names

Andy Warhol, Kynaston McShine (1989). “Andy Warhol: a retrospective”

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To survive, China had to open up to the West. It could not survive otherwise. This was after many millions have died of hunger in a country that was like North Korea is today. Once we became part of global competition, we had to agree to some rules. It's painful, but we had to. Otherwise there was no way to survive.

Ai Weiwei

Country, Korea, Competition

"Ai Weiwei: The Dissident". Interview with Hannah Beech and Austin Ramzy, content.time.com. December 14, 2011.

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Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.

Orson Welles

Christmas, Fall, Roots

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While there are towns and cities still planning Memorial Day parades, many have not held a parade in decades. Some think the day is for honoring anyone who has died, not just those fallen in service to our country.

Allen West

Country, Memorial Day, Thinking

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Every kid who hated grownups becomes a grownup. Well, except the ones who died.

Joss Whedon

Kids, Hated, Wells

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I really understood a lot more about comedy after listening to Bill Hicks, who died at 32 years old. He's probably the best comedian who ever lived. Although you can't say that because of Carlin, Cosby and Pryor.

Ron White

Years, Comedian, Listening

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Christ died to save this lost world; he did not come to destroy, maim or pour out wrath.

David Wilkerson

Wrath, World, Christ

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Since the emergence of the Republican Party, only two Democratic presidents, Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy, have been followed by Democrats, and both FDR and JFK died in office, so their successors ran as incumbents.

George Will

Party, Two, Office

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If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl.

Amy Winehouse

Girl, Would Be, Tomorrow

"A life cut short: Remembering the tragedy of Amy Winehouse" by Breeanna Hare, www.cnn.com. July 24, 2012.

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My father died when I was nine, but I came from a stable family environment, which I think does contribute to being well-behaved.

Robert Winston

Father, Thinking, Doe

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Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.

Steven Wright

Night, Gambling, People

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I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.

Steven Wright

Funny, Friends, Humor

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Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.

Andrew Young

Diplomats, Diplomacy, Copiers

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My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he saluted, he killed himself.

Henny Youngman

Funny, Family, Time

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Class certainly loomed large in Katrina's aftermath. Blacks of means escaped the tragedy; blacks without them suffered and died. In reality, it is how race and class interact that made the situation for the poor so horrible on the Gulf Coast. The rigid caste system that punishes poor blacks and other minorities also targets poor whites.

Michael Eric Dyson

Mean, Reality, Race

"Come Hell or High Water". Book by Michael Eric Dyson, www.today.com. 2006.

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When Oscar Niemeyer died on December 5, 2012, ten days before his 105th birthday, he was universally regarded as the very last of the twentieth century's major architectural masters, an astonishing survivor whose most famous accomplishment, Brasilia, was the climactic episode of utopian High Modern urbanism.

Martin Filler

Accomplishment, Survivor, Oscars

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Bowling really was a big American sport in the '50s, '60s, and '70s, and then it kind of died off in the '80s.

Chris Hardwick

Sports, Bowling, Kind

"Chris Hardwick discusses his favorite episodes of Nerdist". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 7, 2013.

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