Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.

For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.

In Goddess religion death is not feared but is understood to be a part of life followed by birth and renewal.

The need to understand prescription information can literally be a matter of life and death.

Salman Rushdie indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law the sentence for that is actually death.

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

Death obsesses me yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really I'm just a little more out about it.

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger envy and death.

Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility or 'the ability to vote with your feet.' If you don't support the death penalty and citizens packing a pistol - don't come to Texas. If you don't like medicinal marijuana and gay marriage don't move to California.

For those who seek to understand it death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.

All violence consists in some people forcing others under threat of suffering or death to do what they do not want to do.

I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it I order a massage and it goes away.

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy indifference and undernourishment.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant try to save your soul when death is immanent what can you do?

I think more dating stuff is scheduling. It's needing people who understand your work schedule.

I don't understand the whole dating thing. I know right off the bat if I'm interested in someone and I don't want them to waste their money on me and take me out to eat if I know I'm not interested in that person.

I'm 31 now. I think I'm beginning to understand what life is what romance is and what a relationship means.

If you can lie you can act and if you can lie to crazy girlfriends you can act under pressure.

I think people like to think I'm in some way financially dependent on my family - on my dad - but the fact of the matter is I've been emancipated from my father since I was 14 years old. That's something people don't know or understand.

My grandmother was an actress too. In the thirties and forties she was under contract with Universal Studios. Crazy credits lots of them. My dad was also under contract with Universal Studios. And my first film was shot on the same stage they both worked on at Universal.

Whenever I did a good performance my Dad and my uncles who were rabid movie fans took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film.

I worked with my dad for 15 years. I apprenticed under him and decided I wanted to become an architect. So I went to college for it and then the acting bug got me.

As a brother and sister our tastes were pretty different growing up. He liked a lot of early hip hop. My dad didn't understand it and would try to talk him out of it.

My dad doesn't get any of my jokes. He laughs at them but he doesn't understand them. He's just laughing because people around him are laughing.