#died

My mom died of cancer when I was really young. I'm not someone who tries to work out their own stuff with a role, but I think that happened despite my best efforts to keep myself separate from it. ↗

— Sarah Polley

#cancer #despite #died #efforts #happened

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. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#assassin #boy #bravest #chose #complex

So I all knew was you lost your limbs and you died from it. I was scared silly. ↗

— Della Reese

#i #knew #limbs #lost #scared

Congress has an obligation to protect our country's natural beauty, embodied in our nation's parks, rivers, and breathtaking landscapes. ↗

— Dave Reichert

#breathtaking #congress #country #embodied #landscapes

I did not know it then, but Frida had already become the most important fact in my life. And would continue to be, up to the moment she died, 27 years later. ↗

— Diego Rivera

#become #continue #did #died #fact

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#apt #capitalism #embodied #exercise #fortunate

I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist. ↗

— Susan Sarandon

#activist #actor #because #empathy #exactly

I think that rather than condemning Islam, Islam needs to be studied by those who are sincere. ↗

— Louis Farrakhan

#i #i think #islam #needs #rather

It sort of filtered into their subconscious through motion pictures, but it's an historical secret. This - whatever this is - needs to be studied and, in a kind of definitive way, talked about. ↗

— Dwight Schultz

#definitive #filtered #historical #into #kind

Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive. ↗

— Luc Ferrari

#dumb #first #i #piano #repressive