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You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway.
steve biko— On Death
He had developed his own limited, or very simple style. He was never very keen on improving himself as a bass player and half the time I would play bass on the records because I would tend to do it quicker. Right back to those early records; I mean, at least half the bass on all recorded output is me anyway. … Rog used to come in and say, "Thank you very much" to me once in a while for winning him bass-playing polls.
david gilmour— On Roger Waters, as quoted in Rock Compact Disc (September 1992)
I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
harper lee— Pt. 1, ch. 11
— Atticus Finch
We never really cared about all the things that other people cared about, you know? Like, people recognizing me on the street never interested me. I've always been kind of suspicious of the world, anyway, so it's pretty easy for me to live in my own little world.
meg white— Jarmusch, Jim (2003). "The White Stripes: getting to know the most interesting band in music today" FindArticles.com (accessed June 6, 2006)
The citizen who thinks he sees that the commonwealth's political clothes are worn out, and yet holds his peace and does not agitate for a new suit, is disloyal, he is a traitor. That he may be the only one who thinks he sees this decay, does not excuse him: it is his duty to agitate anyway, and it is the duty of others to vote him down if they do not see the matter as he does.
mark twain— Ch. 13. (A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889))
according to current birthrate projections, France will be a majority Muslim country anyway in about 50 years ... I get a lot of e-mails from Americans who think that Europeans are spineless. And I think they're right.
pat condell— YouTube video, 2007-08-17, from YouTube, transcript
The bells which toll for mankind are most of them, anyway like the bells of Alpine cattle; they are attached to our own necks, and it must be our fault if they do not make a cheerful and harmonious sound.
peter medawar— The Future of Man, 1959
Economists tell us that the 'price' of an object and its 'value' have very little or nothing to do with one another. 'Value' is entirely subjective economic value, anyway while 'price' reflects whatever a buyer is willing to give up to get the object in question, and whatever the seller is willing to accept to give it up. Both are governed by the Law of Marginal Utility, which is actually a law of psychology, rather than economics. For government to attempt to dictate a 'fair price' betrays complete misunderstanding of the entire process.
l. neil smith— Ceres, Chapter Eighteen[31], 2009
You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.
walt disney— American entrepreneur, animator, voice actor and film producer (1901 - 1966)
I'm the out-of-court jester who won't settle, I up the vigilante, I'm a law unto myself but break it anyway! I made a forced landing on the Moebius Strip and now I want to know, which side are you on?
bob black— The Abolition of Work and Other Essays (1986), p. 14
My body feels young but my mind is very oldSo what do you say / You can't give me the dreams that are mine anyway / You're half the world awayI've been lost, I've been found / But I don't feel down"
Noel Gallagher— Half the World Away, 18 December 1994
We went over there and fought the war and eventually burned down every town in North Korea anyway, someway or another, and some in South Korea too.… Over a period of three years or so, we killed off — what — twenty percent of the population of Korea as direct casualties of war, or from starvation and exposure?
curtis lemay— Strategic Air Warfare: An Interview with Generals (1988)
We would know far more about life’s complexities if we applied ourselves to the close study of its contradictions instead of wasting so much time on similarities and connections, which should anyway, be self-explanatory.
josé saramago— The Cave p. 15 (Vintage 2003)
If something seems possible, that's probably because someone is already doing it. When something seems that it can't possibly work, nobody tries it. Real innovation happens when someone tries anyway, overlooking an obvious flaw, and finds a way to make an idea work.
joel spolsky— "How Hard Could It Be? Inspired Misfires, Personal Development Article"
Not that a car would have been much faster anyway, what with the police posts at state lines, the searches, the restricted zones not merely in cities one expected that during August but right out in the country, in agricultural areas. Because of hijackers after food trucks, of course.
john brunner— The Sheep Look Up (1972), August. “THE END OF A LONG DARK TUNNEL”
Second sight is redundant to reason anyway.
lois mcmaster bujold— p. 328 (Cryoburn (2010))
I think that, like in my writing, reality is always a soap bubble, Silly Putty thing anyway. In the universe people are in, people put their hands through the walls, and it turns out they're living in another century entirely. ... I often have the feeling and it does show up in my books that this is all just a stage.
— Interview, Science Fiction Review (August 1976)
I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don’t we all anyway ; might as well get paid for it.
elaine dundy— The Dud Avocado (1958)
Then the big white whale, Clinton . What about someone who is a war criminal, a taker of bribes from foreign dictatorships , almost certainly a rapist (plausibly accused, anyway, by three believable women, of rape), executed a black man (Ricky Ray Rector) who was so mentally retarded that he was unable to plead or to understand the charges You're against all that, right? But you're for it when it's someone who you think is a "New Democrat".
christopher hitchens— "Conversations with History: A Dissenting Voice", interview by Harry Kreisler (2002-04-25)
She's got a way about her I don't know what it is. But I know that I can't live without her. She's got a way of pleasin' I don't know what it is But there doesn't have to be a reason anyway.
Billy Joel— She's Got a Way
If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.
dmitri shostakovich— Said to Isaac Glikman, 1936; cited from Laurel Fay Shostakovich: A Life (2000) p. 92.
Words can never really help you say, what you want them to anyway. And words can never really help you see, what you really want to be.
dawud wharnsby— "Midnight"
What is debt anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence."
— David Graeber. Debt: the First 5000 Years (2011).
According to the theory of aerodynamics, as may be readily demonstrated through wind tunnel experiments, the bumblebee is unable to fly. This is because the size, weight and shape of his body in relation to the total wingspread make flying impossible. But the bumblebee, being ignorant of these scientific truths, goes ahead and flies anyway and makes a little honey every day.
— Sign in a General Motors Corporation plant, reported in Ralph L. Woods, The Businessman's Book of Quotations (1951), p. 249–50. Compare: "Antoine Magnan, a French zoologist, in 1934 made some very careful studies of bumblebee flight and came to the conclusion that bumblebees cannot fly at all! Fortunately, the bumblebees never heard this bit of news and so went on flying as usual". Ross E. Hutchins, Insects (1968), p. 68. Magnan's 1934 work was Le Vol des Insectes (vol. 1 of La Locomotion Chez les Animaux).
This place sucks, anyway.
— Who: Billy Nolan
— Source: Carrie
— Note: Contemplates leaving Chamberlain shortly before he is killed in a car crash caused by Carrie White.
If it goes on hurting like this, I think I'd rather be dead anyway.
— Who: Mark Braddock
— Source: The Stand
— Note: Said while dying from a burst appendix.
anyway, Big Brother 7: that was that. Big Brother 8 is scheduled to take place in the glowing centre of an irradiated war-torn wasteland formerly known as Earth. See you there.
charlie brooker— The Guardian, 12 August 2006 [24]
anyway , the Evil Dead movies are great, and I have to say
— Who: "Bad Phelous" (Phelan Porteus)
— Source: "Phevil Phead Phreelous" (Evil Dead 3 review)
— Note: Says this before being killed with a shotgun by "normal" Phelous.
