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There are a lot of downsides to being male. We age faster and die younger. But give us this: we're lifetime baby-making machines. Women's reproductive abilities start to wane when they're as young as 35. Men? We're good to go pretty much till we're dead.
Jeffrey Kluger

Age, Good, Women

There are popular celebrities, there are unpopular celebrities and then there are the walking dead. You know the walking dead when you see them: they look like Mel Gibson, still striving for drunken charm in an L.A. County mug shot, after getting picked up on a DWI charge that included anti-semitic slurs directed at the police.
Jeffrey Kluger

After, Getting, Police

They say Elvis is dead. I say, no, you're looking at him. Elvis isn't dead; he just changed color.
Dennis Rodman

Him, Looking, Color

It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.
A. N. Wilson

Alone, Thoughts, Put

The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.
John le Carre

War, Long, Before

The only dead bodies from marijuana are in the prisons and at the hands of the police. This is ridiculous.
Jack Herer

Police, Hands, Ridiculous

If I hadn't had music in my life, it's quite possible I'd be dead and I'd much rather be alive.
James Hetfield

Life, Music, Rather

I'm not squeamish at all. As a child I dragged a dead squirrel home on my skateboard and cut it open and tried to look at its brain.
Jessica Biel

Home, Brain, Child

I am so sick of reading about another car bomb, another suicide bomber, another 10, 20, 30, 70, 100 people dead in a day, both Americans and Iraqis.
Rosanne Cash

Car, Sick, Another

Mother's Day is a torment if your mother is dead. Valentine's Day is a torment if you don't got one. And at some point in our lives, we will be tormented by Valentine's Day even if we're relatively lucky in love.
Dan Savage

Love, Mother, Lives

The greatest thing about golf, there's no end to it unless you're dead. You just go from here to the Senior Tour.
Fuzzy Zoeller

End, Greatest, Here

Because when they strike it can be that quick that if they're within range, you're dead, you're dead in your tracks. And his head weighs more than my body so it's WHACK!
Steve Irwin

Body, Within, Head

Just because someone's dead doesn't mean it's over. My grandfather died more than 25 years ago, but I still think of him a lot and smell his smell.
Julian Clary

Someone, Mean, Him

In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.
Michael Pollan

Food, Takes, Half

It would appear that love is dead. Or very likely in a bad way.
Kate Millett

Love, Bad, Likely

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.
Allan Bloom

Soon, Tradition, Recognized

The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.
William Lloyd Garrison

Enough, Apathy, Leap

Ding-dong, the wicked witch is dead.
E. Y. Harburg

Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.
Lawrence Clark Powell

Life, Books, Bring

What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to each new generation.
Lawrence Clark Powell

Great, Long, Book

Woman absent is woman dead.
Walter Bagehot

Most of my childhood revolved around wondering when we would be blown up by the Russians. I couldn't stand the news, I knew that if the missile were launched, mortality would arrive in half an hour, so I spent a lot of my childhood feeling that I was 30 minutes from being dead.
Jane Smiley

Feeling, Around, Stand

Why are we reading a Shakespeare play or 'Huckleberry Finn?' Well, because these works are great, but they also tell us something about the times in which they were created. Unfortunately, previous eras and dead authors often used language or accepted as normal sentiments that we now find unacceptable.
Jane Smiley

Great, Find, Play

I have been in the series for over 3 years - 3 series. There will be a fourth series next year which of course I won't be in because I'm now dead. So in total I appeared in 25 episodes.
Richard Briers

Year, Next, Won

Earmarks have become a symbol of a Congress that has broken faith with the people. This earmark ban shows the American people we are listening and we are dead serious about ending business as usual in Washington.
John Boehner

Faith, Business, Become

As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
Jack Henry Abbott

Long, Nothing, Ghost

The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.
Alexander Smith

Wise, Keep, While

Yeah, the sitcom world is dead. It's all reality.
Jamie Foxx

Reality, Yeah, Sitcom

R&B is never going to be dead, it's just going to evolve.
Keith Sweat

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.
Raymond Chandler

While, Though, Shall

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