Quotes with death-like

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  • Barry Humphries To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother.
    Barry Humphries
    Australian comedian, actor, artist, and author (1934 - 2023)
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  • Samuel Butler To live is like to love-all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Oscar Wilde To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune... to lose both seems like carelessness.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Jean Baudrillard To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Al Franken To make the argument that the media has a left- or right-wing, or a liberal or a conservative bias, is like asking if the problem with Al-Qaeda is do they use too much oil in their hummus.
    Al Franken
    American comedian, politician and author (1951 - )
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  • John Mason Brown To many people dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles.
    John Mason Brown
    American drama critic and author (1900 - 1969)
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  • Jean-Luc Godard To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body - both go together, they can't be separated.
    Jean-Luc Godard
    French film director (1930 - 2022)
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  • Beck To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Bruce McCulloch To me, Doors fans were always the 16-year-old idiots at parties, getting stoned, and talking about how Morrison's lyrics were like poetry... like that was a deep thought.
    Bruce McCulloch
    Canadian actor, comedian, writer (1961 - )
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  • Buzz Osborne To me, everything outside of Los Angeles is the 'south,' including places like San Diego. It's sort of like the saying, 'Everything is God.' Indeed it is.
    Buzz Osborne
    American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (1964 - )
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  • Carmine Coppola To me, there is nothing like the excitement and unique experience of a live orchestra playing.
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  • Buzz Osborne To me, traveling by bus is like climbing into a closet and watching 'Das Boot.'
    Buzz Osborne
    American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (1964 - )
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  • Bootsy Collins To me, you go through things like that and you learn from it. You add it on to your life, to try to make your life better. Instead of dogging people, learn something from it. And keep stepping.
    Bootsy Collins
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1951 - )
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  • Agnes Martin To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
    Agnes Martin
    Canadian-born American abstract painter (1912 - 2004)
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  • Anna Lindh To properly reflect the changes of the world and of the UN, with its growing number of member states, we would like to see an enlargement of the SC that gives room for new members, not least developing countries.
    Anna Lindh
    Swedish Social Democratic politician (1957 - 2003)
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  • Edmund Burke To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Demosthenes To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.
    Demosthenes
    Greek statesman and orator (382 - 322)
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  • Aristotle To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • John Updike To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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