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You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.

~ Ian Fleming

They say death and taxes are the only things that are inevitable. The truth is, you can not pay your taxes. I've done it, and there's consequences, but it can be done. Death you're not going to get out of, and you kind of got to deal with it.

~ Steve Earle

Exile is like death. You cannot understand it until it happens to you.

~ Golshifteh Farahani

If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East.

~ Tupac Shakur

You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.

~ N. T. Wright

When I first met Alan Parker, who directed 'Angel Heart,' he'd heard so many horror stories about me that he was literally scared to death of me. Right away, he sat me down and said, 'I'm very scared of you. I've heard you're a very bad boy.'

~ Mickey Rourke

Fads are the kiss of death. When the fad goes away, you go with it.

~ Conway Twitty

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.

~ David Lynch

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.

~ Dennis Quaid

Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get.

~ Kevin Spacey

What are you gonna do, talk the alien to death?

~ James Cameron

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

~ Vance Havner

Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death.

~ Lena Horne

When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.

~ Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Even a cup of coffee tastes so much sweeter because you've come once again out of the, literally, out of the edge of death, and that's the condition I suppose that a lot of artists and writers would like to be in.

~ Christopher Koch

Banks will fee you to death. If you bounce a check, the bank has a policy to re-post the check three more times to see if it will be paid. If it continues to bounce they charge a $30 overdraft every time. So, one bounced check will rack up $90 for the bank.

~ Jonathan Raymond

You're trying to write about something that's sacred. You're trying to bring the seriousness of life and death to it, and you're trying to find a way to dramatize it, and you're trying to give language to it, which is inadequate. But it's important to try.

~ Edward Hirsch

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

~ P. J. O'rourke

Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old.

~ Terry Pratchett

I think the minute you mention death, people run for the hills - unless it's heavy metal. People do not like death.

~ Rufus Wainwright

People always say that pregnant women have a glow. And I say it's because you're sweating to death.

~ Jessica Simpson

A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.

~ Gustave Flaubert

My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasn't a Christian, she would stomp you to death.

~ Dick Gregory

If you don't have any fight in you, you might as well be dead.

~ Scott Caan

When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.

~ Marlene Dietrich

If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button.

~ Sam Levenson

I have been here before as a spirit - this is just my physical body, it is just an overcoat. And at death, you will take the overcoat off.

~ Glenn Hoddle

If you don't have imagination, you stop being human; animals don't have imagination; Alzheimer's is the death of imagination.

~ Devdutt Pattanaik

You think, eventually, that nothing can disturb you and that your nerves are impregnable. Yet, looking down at that familiar face, I realized that death is something to which we never become calloused.

~ Eliot Ness

I have never been what you would call just an integrationist. I know I've been called that... Integrating that bus wouldn't mean more equality. Even when there was segregation, there was plenty of integration in the South, but it was for the benefit and convenience of the white person, not us.

~ Rosa Parks

If you have a dog, I must have a dog. If you have a rifle, I must have a rifle. If you have a club, I must have a club. This is equality.

~ Malcolm X

You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.

~ Zadie Smith

Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.

~ Mario Vargas Llosa

Marriage equality is a term so ridiculous on its face that when you hear it mentioned, you would think you were in Riyadh. Years from now, perhaps we can lose the equality part, the same-sex part and call it what it is - marriage.

~ Henry Rollins

I think 'I Spy,' still when you look at it, speaks volumes in terms of propaganda for equality. It's just magnificent.

~ Bill Cosby

Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.

~ Toni Morrison

The definition of being a feminist is equality, and if you're not a feminist at this point, then what are you really promoting?

~ Alessia Cara

Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.

~ Thomas Huxley

I wouldn't say there's a need for the Spice Girls, but I'd say there's a place for the Spice Girls. There's certainly a place for them, but you don't promote the Spice Girls at the expense of promoting what I think are good role models for girls. You need to create some kind of equality.

~ Greg Graffin