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“Everyone has their dates. For me, it's 1991. I can place every memory of my life either before or after this date. It's the year I became an adult. My mother died, and I created my company shortly thereafter. I definitely would not have done it if she hadn't passed away.”

Book:Our Eternity

Source: Our Eternity

“I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young... he killed himself in the prime of his life.”

Men Young Talent Brother Musician Died Like Me Prime Composer Gifted Great Talent

Author:Gustav Mahler

“My son has died of AIDS.”

Son Died Aids My Son

Book:Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations

Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations

“Let us give publicity to H.I.V./AIDS and not hide it, because the only way to make it appear like a normal illness like TB, like cancer, is always to come out and say somebody has died because of H.I.V./AIDS, and people will stop regarding it as something extraordinary.”

People Way Giving Normal Died Extraordinary Cancer Illness Aids Publicity Hiv Hiv Aids World Aids Day Aids Day

Author:Nelson Mandela

“The Philippines is a terrible name, coming from Spain. Phillip II was the father of the inquisition, who I believe died of syphilis. It is my great regret that we didn't change the name of our country.”

Believe Country Father Names I Believe Regret Terrible Died Our Country Spain Philippines Inquisition Syphilis

Author:Imelda Marcos

“I like video games, but they are very violent. I want to create a video game in which you have to help all the characters who have died in the other games. 'Hey, man, what are you playing?' 'Super Busy Hospital. Could you leave me alone? I'm performing surgery! This guy got shot in the head, like, 27 times!'”

“You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.”

Moving Used Mother Died Nurse

Author:Paul McCartney

“I believe history will come to view 9/11 as an event on par with November 22, 1963, the date on which John F. Kennedy was murdered, cutting short a presidency that was growing ever more promising. Dreams died that day in Dallas; it is easy to imagine the 1960s turning out rather differently had President Kennedy lived.”

Believe Dream I Believe Easy President Views Cutting Growing Imagine Events Died Presidency 1960s November Dallas President Kennedy

Author:Jon Meacham

“To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!”

Ifs Men Ideas Wisdom Would Be Dies Atheism Died Noble Deception Nationalism

Author:H. L. Mencken

“No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at a civilian nuclear power plant.”

Kind States United United States Died Plant Ill Accidents Nuclear Civilians Nuclear Power Power Plants

Author:Joe Barton

“Even though God loves us, we still have a problem: sin. It's important for us to learn how to confront sin and overcome it, because while God loves sinners, He hates sin. And He hates it because of what it does to us and how it keeps us from the abundant life Jesus died to give us.”

Giving Doe Stills Important Problem Hate Jesus Sin Overcoming Died God Love Sinner Abundant Life God Loves Us

Author:Joyce Meyer

“I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God's Word that showed me I wasn't living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood.”

Eye Jesus Childhood Late Negative Abuse Died Mindset Miserable Abundant Life

Author:Joyce Meyer

“My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.”

World War Mother Son Husband Died War Of The Worlds Second World War

Author:Mikhail Baryshnikov

“I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.”

May Ends Seems Lines New York Serious Died Theater Lifetime Absurd

Author:Arthur Miller

“When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn't eat or sleep.”

Sleep Died Cried

Author:Marilyn Monroe

“When elected officials abandon our environment and ruin our natural resources, public health is endangered. I know the importance of providing a clean environment for our children; I have attended more than one funeral for a child who has died from an asthma attack.”

“I nearly died of double bronchial pneumonia at the age of five.”

Age Five Died Birthday 60th Birthday Pneumonia

Author:Roger Moore

“Forty years ago this country went down a rabbit hole in Vietnam and millions died. I fear we're going down a rabbit hole once again - and if people can stop and think and reflect on some of the ideas and issues in this movie, perhaps I've done some damn good here!”

People Ifs Thinking Years Ideas Country Done Millions Issues Years Ago Died Holes Damn Forty Vietnam Rabbits Brilliant Ideas Damn Good Rabbit Holes

Author:Errol Morris

“You know, Freud accepted his lot very stoically and very well and with a sense of humor. He aged and died gracefully, and there's a lot to be said for that.”

Knows Wells Said Died Accepted Sense Of Humor

Author:Viggo Mortensen

“It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion.”

Looks Children Remember Compassion Lord Died Humble Consolation Love And Compassion

Author:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“I have died many times. I have actually beaten Jesus Christ because he only died once.”

Jesus Christ Jesus Christ Died Beaten

Author:Robert Mugabe

“While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucille, died. My father had already died, but I always had some attachment to our big family while she was alive. It seems strange to say now that I felt so lonely, yet I did.”

Feelings Bigs Seems Mother Father Felt Alive Strange Lonely Died Attachment Big Families So Lonely

Author:Bill Murray

“I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and of how she could play the piano at the old house.”

Play House Born Memories Saws Died Piano Grandmother Grandfather My Grandmother My Grandfather Good Memories Old Houses

Author:John Forbes Nash

“Animals aren't any better equipped to survive an emergency than humans are. Few people missed the fact that after Hurricane Katrina, people died because buses and emergency shelters wouldn't allow their animals.”

People Humans Facts Animal Died Bus Shelter Emergencies Hurricanes Katrina Hurricane Katrina

Author:Ingrid Newkirk

“I watched Janis one time - we opened for her - and that's the only time I ever saw her. We opened for Jimi Hendrix. I got to stand on the side of the stage and watch him for two hours and then he died. But I got the essence before they left.”

Two Left Sides Hours Watches Saws Stage Essence Died One Time Only Time Hendrix

Author:Stevie Nicks

“The word 'Christianity' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.”

Has Beens Reality Christian Religion Christianity Atheism Crosses Died Atheist Misunderstanding Friday Good Friday Christ On The Cross

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for her to meet me. Later, she started coming to my concerts, but I only got to know her well after her mother died. I rang to see how she was, and that's how it started.”

Knows Wells Mother Wife Dad Mets Died My Wife Crush Concerts Mother Died

Author:Gary Numan

“I have one brother, John, an airline pilot, who is seven years younger. He's adopted, though we're still blood related - he's my cousin. My parents couldn't have any more children after me, so when Dad's brother died, they adopted John, then just a baby.”

Years Children Stills Parent Blood Brother Baby Dad Died Seven Related Pilots Adopted Cousin Seven Years Airline My Cousin Airline Pilots Brother Died

Author:Gary Numan

“After my husband died, I could not write much - I could not concentrate. I was too exhausted most of the time even to contemplate writing. But I did take notes - not for fiction, but for a journal, or diary, of this terrible time. I did not think that I would ever survive this interlude.”

Thinking Writing Fiction Terrible Husband Died Notes My Husband Contemplating Journal Exhausted Diaries Terrible Times

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“I've always been interested in writing about people, including young children who are not able to speak for themselves. As in my novel 'Black Water,' I provide a voice for someone who has died and can't speak for herself.”

People Writing Children Able Young Speak Black Voice Water Novel Died Including Young Children

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“When my brother called to inform me, on the morning of May 22, 2003, that our mother Caroline Oates had died suddenly of a stroke, it was a shock from which, in a way, I have yet to recover.”

Way May Mother Morning Brother Died My Brother Shock Strokes

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.”

“I never told my father I loved him before he died, and I have a lot of issues about that. They're all swimming around in my head, in my heart, unresolved, and in a way it felt fitting to dedicate the film to him.”

Way Heart Film Father Felt Issues My Heart Died Swimming Fitting Unresolved Issues

Author:Gary Oldman

“Everybody in America started to define themselves by all these things they had around them. And all of a sudden it came tumbling down. So the old American dream has died, and that is a good thing.”

Dream America Died Good Things American Dream Tumbling Tumbling Down

Author:Suze Orman

“Normally, if someone's legacy will outlast their life, it's apparent when they die. On the day when Alexander the Great, or Caesar Augustus, or Napoleon, or Socrates, or Muhammad died, their reputations were immense. When Jesus died, his tiny, failed movement appeared clearly at an end.”

Ifs Ends Dies Jesus Movement Died Tiny Reputation Legacy Immense Muhammad Augustus Augustus Caesar

Author:John Ortberg

“There's a belief that you're supposed to be poor, and suffering, and show your humility. I just don't see the Bible that way. I see that God came and Jesus died so that we might live an abundant life and be a blessing to others.”

Way Shows Might Suffering Jesus Belief Poor Humility Blessing Died Supposed To Be Abundant Life Blessing To Others

Author:Joel Osteen

“I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal... God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.”

Thinking Want Firsts Believe Jesus I Believe Heaven Goal Doors Died Gods Will This Life Making Money Believe In God

Author:Joel Osteen

“Almost the moment he died, they put him in Playboy as one of the greatest drummers, which he was - there's no doubt about it. There's never been anybody since. He's one of the greatest drummers that ever lived.”

Moments Doubt Died No Doubt Drummer Playboy

Author:Jimmy Page

“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.”

“When Whitney Houston died, I felt great sadness. My sadness, of course, was about our collective loss - when you listened to this nightingale sing, your body would drop into a chair, your head would tilt up, a small smile would creep across your face, and inside you knew that there was a higher power somewhere: gifted, beautiful, spiritual.”

Body Beautiful Faces Spiritual Courses Felt Loss Sadness Higher Died Your Body Chairs Collectives Your Face Gifted Creeps Houston Higher Power Nightingales Tilt Whitney

Author:James Belushi

“The bravest person I've ever met was a young boy going through massive amounts of treatment for a very rare, complex and unpleasant disease. I last saw him at a Discworld convention, where he chose to take part in a game as an assassin. He died not long afterwards, and I wish I had his fortitude and sense of style.”

Persons Long Lasts Young Games Wish Boys Saws Style Amount Mets Disease Died Complexes Treatment Massive Conventions Fortitude Discworld Assassins

Author:Terry Pratchett

“Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician.”

Lasts Night Disease Died Medicine Medical Yesterday Physicians Last Night

Author:Matthew Prior

“Someone called all the newspapers in New York and told them I'd died. I've been told by almost everyone it was an ex-wife - I've had a few so it's hard to pinpoint which one - but who knows for sure?”

Knows Hard Wife New York Died Newspapers Exes Ex Wife

Author:Richard Pryor

“It was sad when Sid Vicious died... I was freaked out when Phil Lynott died from Thin Lizzy. I cried. It was too crazy.”

Crazy Died Cried Vicious Sids Lizzy

Author:Dee Dee Ramone

“At least 23,000 civilians have also died in the Iraqi killing field and the U.S. is stuck in a quagmire.”

Fields Died Killing Stuck Civilians Quagmire

Author:Charles Rangel

“Two of my grandparents died in a car crash. Sucks, 'cause they would have lived to a hundred.”

Two Causes Car Hundred Died Crash Grandparent Car Crash

Author:Kid Rock

“When you snatch little pieces of other people's lives and try to palm them off as your own, that's more disgusting than anything. Robin Williams is a huge thief. Denis Leary is a huge thief. His whole stand-up career is based on Bill Hicks, a brilliant guy who died years ago.”

People Trying Years Littles Whole Guy Careers Pieces Huge Years Ago Died Bills Brilliant Thieves Disgusting Palms Robins Hicks

Author:Joe Rogan

“Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose.”

Ifs Years Found Father Secret Morning Happened Mom Dad Married Died Tables Rose Locals Fatherhood Anniversary Mom And Dad Father Died My Father Died

Author:Mitt Romney

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