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I found out through the Internet that I have AIDS. I learned that I was dead. Where else would I find these things?
Layne Staley

Through, Find, Learned

They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now before I popped off.
Doris Lessing

Someone, Thinking, Give

I'll be pleased when I'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars.
Doris Lessing

Off, Wars, Worrying

The middle of the road is for yellow lines and dead armadillos.
Jim Hightower

Road, Middle, Lines

I'm not dead and I don't have blue hair but some people say there are similarities. It is usually intolerable to watch myself onscreen but this time it's fine. I think it's beautiful and a real work of art.
Helena Bonham Carter

Work, Time, Art

Chivalry is dead.
Sienna Miller

For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Living, Dog, Lion

What makes the most money for this business? Dead rock stars.
Courtney Love

Money, Business, Rock

Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead and gone. I've hugged trees in every part of this little island.
Gerry Adams

Talking, Gone, Trees

After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out of him each year.
Robert Benchley

Time, Book, Him

Let's get a couple of things straight. It hasn't been years and years since I made a movie. I'm not coming back from the dead - I've just had two kids! I have no intention of retiring, but I do think it's impossible to do movie after movie, because there aren't that many good films made.
Julia Roberts

Good, Two, After

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
Aristophanes

Travel, Lost, Two

It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.
Pearl S. Buck

Religion, Strength, May

I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I'm dead. Kaput. I feel very much like I want to be with my brother and sister again. They're nowhere. I know they're nowhere and they don't exist, but if nowhere means that's where they are, that's where I want to be.
Maurice Sendak

Work, Alone, Again

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Irv Kupcinet

God, Society, Alive

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
Miguel de Unamuno

Science, Ideas, Cemetery

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Willa Cather

Living, Try, Young

When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen.
Alexander McQueen

Started, Gone, Century

Everyone I used to play with has either given up or is dead.
Stephen Sondheim

Play, Everyone, Used

Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
Buffalo Bill

Brain, Through, Stranger

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
St. Jerome

War, Friends, Dying

Custer had dead heroes. Crazy Horse had only live ones.
Stephen Ambrose

Crazy, Live, Horse

After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life.
Alan Alda

Life, After, While

You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if you're making those connections with your audience then they're going to go right along with it.
Bruce Springsteen

Serious, Making, Quite

If some of the people who write about mojo came with me for a week, they would drop dead on their feet.
William Hague

Write, Week, Feet

I love animals and they're very easy to look after when they're dead.
Amanda Seyfried

Love, After, Easy

I wouldn't be caught dead marrying a woman old enough to be my wife.
Tony Curtis

Wife, Woman, Enough

Universality has been severely reduced: it is virtually dead as a concept in most areas of public policy.
Stephen Harper

Public, Policy, Concept

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.
Harold MacMillan

Power, Nothing, Sea

I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.
Howard Mumford Jones

Hope, Again, Youth

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