When 'Destroyer' was first released, we got a strong backlash from our hardcore fans. After six months, the album was dead in the water. The critics didn't think much of it, either.
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
Keynesianism, if you add its flexible, muscular form during the Depression to its more rigid postwar version, lasted forty-five years. Our own Globalization, with its technocratic and technological determinism and market idolatry, had thirty years. And now it, too, is dead.
The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.
My proposal to re-establish diplomatic relations - not necessarily friendly relations, but diplomatic relations - is a sensible, simple, and straightforward approach that will finally get us off dead center.
We must have safe places where people can discuss and be treated. Forty-four million people are already dead from AIDS. What logic is there in not discussing the word?
Let me start by saying, I'm utterly disgusted with the former members of the Dead Kennedys.
There are very few things that are certain in this market - apart from one, and that is that small displacement diesels are dead.
If I feel like you've disrespected me, you might as well just be dead to me.
Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women's movement tried to suppress dissident voices for way too long. There's no room for dissent.
We seem wired to grieve with greenery. Allowing the dead to dissolve into the earth, to become part of the cycle of the seasons, has, for millennia, held the promise of cheating mortality.
The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.
Each year of life brings us nearer to our decline, but I will continue to seek a listener until I'm dead in a ditch.
The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.
Don't try to talk anyone out of concentrating his hatred on Ayn Rand or any other dead person. It can't harm the dead. Diverted to a living person, it might actually do harm.
It's not a happy time when a film drops dead on your doorstep.
Dr. King was unpopular while he was alive - he's only popular now because he's dead and not a threat to anyone.
Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead.
I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I'm loving to do. And if that doesn't happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I'll have my high heels on.
I look around, and 50 percent of the big-budget entertainment you are seeing these days is dystopian. This is the era of 'Hunger Games' and blasted landscapes and 'The Walking Dead.'
