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Philanthropy without scale and sustainability is like any other bad business that will simply wither and die on the vine.
I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record.
We are always doing something to cover up our basic existential anxiety. Some people live that way until the day they die.
Old habits die hard, and if you're not careful, the person you used to be can overtake the person you're trying to become.
Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it.
When we die, our spirits go to the spirit world, and our bodies return to the elements of the earth until the resurrection.
I'm passionate about music in general, not just hip-hop. But when it comes to hip-hop, I don't wanna see it die culturally.
I think that, when you die, you go back to where you came from before you were born. So I don't think death is a bad thing.
It's like, God, I'm in my 80s. Nobody, when I die, is going to say, 'How young?' They're going to say she had a great ride.
I care about my work, but I don't care about getting it wrong. The more you do, the more you realise nobody's going to die.
I've never understood the 'things to do before you die' idea. If I was ill, I'd be in no mood to have a swim with a dolphin.
Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.
When my brother passed away... I made a decision that I might die soon, and if I die, I want people to know who I really am.
You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire.
In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.
Trends die. That's the natural thing about a trend. It's natural for people to be followers and be sheep and go with a trend.
Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.
Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.
I could do one show after another in China for the rest of my life and still die ignorant. There's a lot of places left to go.
The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.
When I die, and people realize that I will not be resurrected in three days, they will forget me. That is the way it should be.
I sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die.
I love my children and I love my wife with all my heart. And I would die, die gladly, if that would make a better life for them.
If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility.
If we wipe out the fish, the oceans are going to die. If the oceans die, we die. We can't live on this planet with a dead ocean.
I'm going to die one day. I know it's coming for me, too. I'll be a mountain, I'll be a stone on the beach. I'll be nourishment.
There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.
The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there.
During the climb, I never get afraid. But you can't lose your fear - it is really important. If you lose it, you are going to die.
The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
I think I'm gonna wear Timberlands until I die, man. They may not be the hottest thing out, but Timbs keep reinventing themselves.
In the late 19th century, the theory that the Aborigines were an inferior race that was doomed to die out became accepted as fact.
The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.
Grunts on the line, where the enemy wants them dead, still goof off - even knowing that by letting their guard down they might die.
You can die at any moment doing anything. I mean, so why not do what you love to do. If I die on game day, have a drink. Celebrate.
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.
A filmmaker doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand it. You don't have to die to shoot a death scene.
There is one good thing about reaching the bottom. When you get there, there's nothing left to do but fight your way back up or die.
Growing, for leaders, is like oxygen to a deep sea diver. Without learning and growing, leaders die in terms of their effectiveness.
When we die, our souls still live. If you are a gangster or a bastard or a crook, your soul inhabits a donkey or something terrible.
Mountaineering is over. Alpinism is dead. Maybe its spirit is still alive a little in Britain and America, but it will soon die out.
While we walking, while we breathing, we dying... I be really feeling like, even though we live to die, some people be dying to live.
There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible.
Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall.
By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.
I am AEW born and bred. I will be AEW until I die. This is my company. This is where I started. This is the company that I'll end in.
Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die.
Material things ain't nothing. You feel me? At the end of the day, it's who you is. You wasn't born with it; you gon' die without it.
I know that I am leaving the winning side for the losing side, but it is better to die on the losing side than to live under Communism.