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" It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous. "

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" So many people seem to prefer my silver-screenings of movie stars to the rest of my work. It must be the subject matter that attracts them, because my death and violence paintings are just as good. "

Andy Warhol

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" 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

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" Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. "

" Why can't death - if we must have it - be always glorious, as in 'The Iliad?' "

" Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent. "

" Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate. "

" Death metal uses a lot of white face paint and black hair dye to make its point. I quite enjoy this genre for its intensity, extremism and underlying irony: You have to be alive to play it and listen to it. "

" The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit. "

" I support the death penalty. But I also think there has to be no margin for error. "

" The problem for all women is we're identified by how we look instead of by our heads and our hearts. "

" You take fantasies, which for thousands of years belonged to the religious realm - overcoming death or our merging with the universe - and you suddenly start talking about them in a more technical perspective as something that can be achieved, not after you die with the help of supernatural beings, but in this very life with the help of technology. "

" Rock and menopause do not mix. It is not good, it sucks and every day I fight it to the death, or, at the very least, not let it take me over. "

Stevie Nicks

Fight

Good

" In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. "

Hannah Arendt

Escape

Try

" We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters. "

Gloria Steinem

Daughters

" I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion. "

" No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. "

" When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death. "

" One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. "

" Divorce is probably as painful as death. "

" No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods. "

" Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation. "

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Death

Life

Illusions

" Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things. "

" Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home. "

" I found the experience of falling in love or being in love was a death: a death of everything. You kind of watch yourself die in a wonderful way, and you experience for the briefest moment - if you see yourself for a moment through their eyes - everything you believed about yourself gone. In a death-and-rebirth sense. "

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

" Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. "

" It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death. "

" Burnout is a way of telling you that your form of activism was perhaps not very full circle. "

" This country can no longer afford to choose our leaders from a talent pool limited by sex, race, money, powerful fathers and paper degrees. It's time to take equal pride in breaking all the barriers. "

" Obviously, no LGBT person should be denied the ability to be who they are because their boss disagrees. "