Died Quotes - Page 2

• The best definition of an immortal is someone who hasn't died yet.

  Tom Holt

  Definitions, Immortal

  "Ye Gods!". Book by Tom Holt, 1992.

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• I grew up in one of the most socially conservative neighborhoods in Ohio, and my parents were traditional Catholics. But in her old age, my mother got her home health care from a guy who was gay, who was wonderful to her. Before she died, she rode a float in the Cincinnati Gay Pride Parade.

  Gail Collins

  Mother, Home, Pride

  "Marriage Security and Insecurities". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. March 27, 2013.

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• That's going to be on my headstone: 'He came. He wrote 'In the Air Tonight.' He... died.'

  Phil Collins

  Air, Tonight, Headstone

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• If Miles Davis hadn't died it would have been interesting to do an album with him, but there wasn't much else that would have got me into the studio... although Herbie Hancock has just been in touch about doing something and that would be an interesting combination.

  Phil Collins

  Interesting, Albums, Would Be

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• Each of us should think of the future. Every puff on a cigarette is another tick closer to a time bomb of terrible consequences. Christopher Hitchens didn't care about the consequences of smoking cigarettes. Tragically, he died of throat cancer in December 2011.

  Ray Comfort

  Cancer, Thinking, Smoking

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• A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.

  Billy Corgan

  Artist, Willing, Dies

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• Artists have really never had any representation on Capitol Hill, because it's not the nature of the artist to join together and make a unified presence. Those days kind of died in the '60s.

  Sheryl Crow

  Artist, Together, Kind

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• If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.

  Jefferson Davis

  Tombstone, Organization, Political

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• At first I was queasy; I'll never forget the sound of the scalpel cutting a body open. But it was so cool trying to work out how these people died.

  Jonathan Davis

  Cutting, People, Work Out

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• When my grandfather died, I started adopting some of his accents, to sort of remind myself of him. A homage. He was a war hero, and he was really great with his hands.

  Gavin DeGraw

  War, Hero, Hands

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• I'm aware that people I have loved and have died and are in the spirit world looking after me.

  Princess Diana

  People, World, Spirit

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• The industry has died as far as modeling has gone, and I'll tell you why. Magazines are featuring the Halle Berrys and Sarah Jessica Parkers, all the actresses. Makeup companies are featuring all the celebrities. All the models have died.

  Janice Dickinson

  Makeup, Magazines, Actresses

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• Our dog died from licking our wedding picture.

  Phyllis Diller

  Funny, Wedding, Dog

  "Phyllis Diller Started in San Francisco" by Corey Andrew, www.nbcbayarea.com. August 22, 2012.

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• I keep my skin - especially on my face and neck - out of the sun. My brother died of melanoma eight years ago, and I've got SPF on all the time, 24-7. It makes you realize, the sun is a wonderful thing, but it can be a very devastating thing. So sunscreen is key, and a lot of laughter, too.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Brother, Laughter, Keys

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• My grandfather had a particularly important influence on my life, even though I didn't visit him often, since he lived about three miles out of town and he died when I was six. He was remarkably curious about the world, and he read lots of books.

  Umberto Eco

  Book, Grandfather, Important

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• The reason I’m not more political is because I have music. And from a young age, I needed it. After prison, my father came to America, joined the Army, fought in Vietnam - and was exposed to Agent Orange. He died a slow, horrible death. Music was my escape.

  Gloria Estefan

  Father, Army, America

  "Gloria Estefan: 'Like Coming Home, But Not to the Old Cuba'". Interview with Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2007.

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• Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?

  Jules Feiffer

  Jesus, Religion, Forgiving

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• To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of.

  Ronald Fisher

  Examination, Experiments, Posts

  Presidential Address to the First Indian Statistical Congress, Sankhya 4, 14-17, 1938.

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• No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Ideas, Foolish, Born

  The Crack-Up "Note-Books" (1945)

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• The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.

  E. M. Forster

  Kings, Queens, Grief

  E. M. Forster (1954). “Aspects Of the Novel”

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• Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

  Indira Gandhi

  Strong, Blood, Independence

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• I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die.

  Judy Garland

  Thinking, Peculiar, Make Sense

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• Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Country, Kindness, Promise

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• Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the principles of our Declaration of Independence could take fold and flourish in the birth of a new nation.

  Jim Gerlach

  Chains That Bind, Bravery, Independence

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• When Andy died, I just drank to dumb my mind.

  Maurice Gibb

  Stupid, Dumb, Mind

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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