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"I'm sick to death of famous people standing up and using their celebrity to promote a cause. If I see a particular need, I do try to help. But there's a lot that can be achieved by putting a check in the right place and shutting up about it."
"I think I was lucky to be a little older when I became famous. But still, the shock of the world starting to treat you in a weird way... I had come from the army, where we had to deal with life or death, and suddenly, people were asking whether you were cool or not. I have never cared about whether I'm cool."
"There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States and in other countries, too. Wright lived into his 90s, and one of his most famous buildings, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, was completed just before his death. Wright buildings look like Wright buildings - that is their paradox."
"The death of a famous person is different from the death of a loved one, whether it is Michael Jackson, Frank Mc Court, or Walter Cronkite. We didn't know any of them personally, and yet, we experience a sense of loss."
"You cannot hear the name Martin Luther King, Jr., and not think of death. You might hear the words 'I have a dream,' but they will doubtlessly only serve to underscore an image of a simple motel balcony, a large man made small, a pool of blood. For as famous as he may have been in life, it is - and was - death that ultimately defined him."
"I'm working myself to death."
"If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets."
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying."
"Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity."
"To have faith doesn't mean you get any less frustrated when you don't do your best, but you know that it's not life and death. Take what you're given, and when you continue to work hard, you will see results. That will give you the confidence you need to keep going."
"I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation."
"My mother died of metastatic colorectal cancer shortly before three P. M. on Christmas Day of 2008. I don't know the exact time of her death, because none of us thought to look at a clock for a while after she stopped breathing."
"The family is the focal point of our existence. And up until Jane and Lucy's death, there were always 16 of us together for Christmas."
"I think that there are a lot of really beautiful Christmas carols, and then sometimes there are horrible renditions of them that are played to death in malls that make me sad. I try to avoid stores where they're playing bad versions of Christmas songs on repeat."
"Computers are scary. They're nightmares to fix, lose our stuff, and, on occasion, they crash, producing the blue screen of death. Steve Jobs knew this. He knew that computers were bulky and hernia-inducing and Darth Vader black. He understood the value of declarative design."
"An end of something means the beginning of something else, and I don't think that something else is going to be the death of the manned space program."
"In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death."
"If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death."
"Bombing, particularly from the perspective of the receiving end, is not 'communication.' Bombs result in death and destruction."
"You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue."
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