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I wouldn't specifically say rock n' roll is dead, but I don't see a lot of charismatic performers in the way of new blood who are edgy and dangerous on stage, like Marilyn Manson, who you never quite know if he's going to make it through his own show.
Tommy Lee
You
Dangerous
Own
Stage
Way
Say
Charismatic
See
Through
Never
He
New
Performers
Like
Know
Dead
Make
Edgy
Rock
Rock-N-Roll
His
Lot
Blood
Roll
Going
Quite
Manson
Show
Who
Specifically
Marilyn
Marilyn Manson
Of the 22 industrialized nations of the world, we're dead last in per capita giving to poor people.
Tony Campolo
People
World
Giving
Per
Dead
Industrialized
Nations
Poor
Poor People
Last
I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of Time, I wanted to make readers aware of Navajo attitude toward the dead, respect for burial sites.
Tony Hillerman
Attitude
Time
Respect
Sometimes
Mind
Thief
Other
Tribes
Plot
One Or Two
More
Toward
Dead
Make
Readers
Always
Cultural
Sites
Burial
Wanted
Elements
Aware
Start
Two
My parents have been dead for many years, and when your folks are gone there is nobody standing between you and eternity.
Tony Parsons
You
Parents
Gone
Folks
Between
Nobody
Dead
Been
Years
Eternity
Your
Standing
Many
I hate when rappers do interviews. They say stuff like, 'If I wasn't doing this, I'd be dead or in jail.' Like, damn, those are the only two options? What about managing Kinkos?
Tony Rock
Hate
Damn
Interviews
Say
Those
Rappers
About
Only
Stuff
Like
Dead
Doing
Options
Managing
Jail
They Say
Two
Either the Obamacare is a dead letter, or the origination clause is; we can't have both.
Trent Franks
Obamacare
Clause
Both
Dead
Either
Letter
If my mama and daddy would've stayed together, one of them would've been dead, and the other would have been locked up for it.
Trick Daddy
Together
Other
Locked
Locked Up
Would
Stayed
Dead
Been
Up
Mama
Them
Daddy
If I start trying to make a record for what I think could possibly get played on radio, I'm dead.
Trisha Yearwood
Think
Possibly
Record
Could
Dead
Make
Get
Trying
Radio
Played
Start
Music is changing. I'm just doing what I'm doing, and hopefully in the next 20, 30 years, some kids can take what I'm doing and change it again. If the music doesn't move, then it's dead.
Trombone Shorty
Music
Change
Changing
Kids
Hopefully
Some
Take
Dead
Doing
Years
Move
Just
Again
Then
Next
We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.
Tryon Edwards
Power
Living
Books
More
More Power
Dead
Read
Very
Than
Often
Should
Company
Keep
Careful
I am not concerned about my posthumous fame. Monuments are no good to the dead.
Varg Vikernes
Good
Monuments
About
Dead
Concerned
Am
Fame
Where I grew up, in a remote village at the back of a valley, the old still thought the dead needed attending to - a notion so universal, it's enscribed in all religions. If you didn't, they might exact revenge upon the living.
W. G. Sebald
You
Revenge
Old
Thought
Living
Back
Valley
All Religions
Exact
Religions
Attending
Remote
Dead
Still
Up
Where
Grew
Might
Notion
Village
Universal
Needed
One of the most humbling gigs I've ever had was I was paid by a neighbor to go get a dead bird out of her house. She was kind of a high up in the music business, and she knew that I needed cash, and I used to do some yard work for her.
Walker Hayes
Work
Music
Business
Bird
Music Business
Neighbor
Out
Kind
High
Gigs
Some
Cash
Had
Knew
Most
House
Dead
She
Yard
Go
Up
Get
Paid
Used
Ever
Her
Humbling
Needed
Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world which is upsidedown: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me; only the haters seem alive.
Walker Percy
Life
Me
People
World
Signs
Haters
Hatred
Few
Strikes
Alive
About
Seem
Only
Remaining
Likable
Dead
Another
Friendly
Which
Thing
Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
Walter Benjamin
Memory
Experience
Theatre
Lie
Past
Medium
Cities
Dead
Instrument
Which
Exploring
Ground
You must prune dead or dying wood.
Warren Giles
You
Must
Dead
Prune
Wood
Dying
If you don't change, you're dead, so I try to keep changing.
Wavy Gravy
You
Change
Try
Changing
Dead
Keep
My goal is to die in my 90s on the set, say, 'That's a wrap,' after the last shot, fall over dead, and have the grips go out and raise a beer to me.
Wes Craven
Me
Beer
Fall
Say
Out
Wrap
Over
Dead
Go
Goal
Die
After
Grips
Shot
Last
Raise
Set
Hundreds and hundreds of the dead were so badly burned in the terrific heat generated by the bomb that it was not even possible to tell whether they were men or women, old or young.
Wilfred Burchett
Women
Old
Men
Young
Hundreds
Possible
Tell
Badly
Dead
Terrific
Were
Heat
Burned
Whether
Even
Bomb
Our job is to bring the dead facts to life.
William Bernbach
Life
Job
Our
Facts
Dead
Bring
Beloved, till life can charm no more; And mourned, till Pity's self be dead.
William Collins
Life
Charm
More
Self
Dead
Till
Mourned
Pity
Beloved
Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years old.
William Gibson
Generation
Old
Generation X
Come
Dead
Years
Anyone
Aged
Mean
If some of the people who write about mojo came with me for a week, they would drop dead on their feet.
William Hague
Me
People
Drop
Would
Some
About
Week
Write
Feet
Dead
Came
Mojo
Who
A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
William Hazlitt
Book
Language
Every
Scholar
Written
Like
Dead
Read
Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
William Hazlitt
Great
Pride
Living
Back
Lofty
Names
Look
Dead
Fame
Antiquity
Inheritance
Who
I am one of the crucified dead.
William Henry Moody
Crucified
Dead
Am
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