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When I was 6 years old, I was in a rock band that was horrible called 'Dead End.' The name kind of described us. People liked us; we would go and perform at coffee houses and stuff. -- Aaron Carter
As an actor, whatever I get the opportunity to do, if it has a good story then I'm in. I thought 'Dead End' had a great story; 'Nightmare on Elm Street,' of course, was probably the first real horror film I was in. -- Lin Shaye
I think interactive television is doomed. It's a dead end. -- Brenda Laurel
A dead end street is a good place to turn around. -- Naomi Judd
We can't afford to go down the dead end roads of Parliamentary Socialism or Fascistic Bolshevism. -- John Blair
I live on a one-way street that's also a dead end. I'm not sure how I got there. -- Steven Wright
A dead end can never be a one way street; you can always turn around and take another road. -- Robert Foster Bennett
It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths. -- Greil Marcus
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The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end. -- Robert Morgan
If I cry, it's because I'm very angry and I can't do anything about it because I've run into a dead end. That's when the tears would come down. -- Rihanna
I tell people, 'I was born in a little house at the dead end of a dirt road that had no name and no number, and you can go anywhere from nowhere.' -- Robert H. Schuller
Going back to the moon is not visionary in restoring space leadership for America. Like its Apollo predecessor, it will prove to be a dead end littered with broken spacecraft, broken dreams and broken policies. -- Buzz Aldrin
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. -- Denis Waitley
But some things are the same. My mother still owns the house I grew up in, on what would now be called a cul de sac, but which the sign on the corner called a dead end street. -- Mink Stole
I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago. -- James Laughlin
'Art or anti-art?' was the question I asked when I returned from Munich in 1912 and decided to abandon pure painting or painting for its own sake. I thought of introducing elements alien to painting as the only way out of a pictorial and chromatic dead end. -- Marcel Duchamp
I was going to be a concert pianist, and when I was in high school, my parents were scared to death that I would focus too much on that too soon. And that I'd end up in some sort of dead end, and not fulfilling whatever potential they thought I had. -- David Hyde Pierce
Life is a dead-end street. -- H. L. Mencken
A puzzle is not a dead-end. -- Lewis N. Roe
Cinema has reached a dead end. -- Peter Greenaway
I think dry nanotechnology is probably a dead-end. -- Rudy Rucker
War would end if the dead could return. -- Stanley Baldwin
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. -- Zig Ziglar
Only the dead have seen the end of war. -- Plato
Going down in history is a dead end pursuit -- Benny Bellamacina
Hallucination is a raw climb to a dead end. -- Akiane Kramarik
Negative expectations are a quick route to dead-end thinking. -- John C. Maxwell
God won't tie your soul to a dead-end dream. -- Lou Engle
Only the dead will know the end of the war. -- Plato
Only the dead have seen the end of the war. -- George Santayana
The longer a dead-end, the more it looks like a road. -- Mikhail Turovsky
There are no dead ends in life, only dead end thinking. -- Orrin Woodward
We all end up dead, it's just a question of how and why. -- William Wallace
Trump's not the future; his ideas and his coalition are a dead end. -- Jonathan Chait
When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead. -- Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Hope meets a dead end when the only chance in sight comes to naught. -- Pawan Mishra
Thinking that what you want equals what's best for you is a dead end. -- Byron Katie
We may all end up dead, but we're sticking it to them in the meantime. -- Cinda Williams Chima
If life were a novel, then dead would mark the end of the first chapter... -- Kelly Nelson
Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues. -- Cullen Hightower
Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street. -- William Arthur Ward
Better try to stay wide awake, or you might end up found dead by the lake. -- Eminem
I bought a house on a one-way dead-end road. I don't know how I got there. -- Steven Wright
People who inspire others are those who see invisible bridges at the end of dead-end streets -- Charles R. Swindoll
I find that the dead-end route is to try to describe what's going on in your mouth. -- Pete Wells
The printed page seems to have come to something of a dead end for all of us. -- Irving Penn
Adversity is not a dead end but a detour to a better outcome than you can imagine! -- Jon Gordon
Arrogance and fanaticism cause the hardening of positions taken and entrenchment can only lead to a dead end. -- Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople
A dead end can never be a one way street; you can always turn around and take another road. -- Robert Foster Bennett
I wouldn't mind dying so much if it wasn't that I would be dead at the end of it. -- Woody Allen
I live at the end of a dead end one way street. I don't know how I got there. -- Steven Wright
James Joyce buried himself in his great work. _Finnegan's Wake_ is his monument and his tombstone. A dead end. -- Edward Abbey
A nation's path to greatness lies in its economic prowess and ... militarism, empire, and aggression lead to a dead end. -- Fareed Zakaria
The Cul-de-Sac ( French for "dead end" ) ... is a situation where you work and work and work and nothing much changes -- Seth Godin
You really had to learn to protect yourself from all Gooks in Vietnam, or else you would end up dead. -- Peter P. Mahoney
Scarcely a tear to shed; Hardly a word to say; The end of a Summer's day; Sweet Love is dead. -- William Allingham
Too much to take in, too much to purge. Why must every memory, once sweet, dead end in such ugliness? -- Ellen Hopkins
As I witness the dead of beloved ones, it makes be become more conscious that life indeed has an end. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
The one-word cinema wasn't possible for me anymore. I'd hit a wall, a dead end. Therefore I thought I'd turn back. -- Abbas Kiarostami
Men knew that if they devirginized a woman, they could end up dead within twenty-four hours. These controls have been removed. -- Camille Paglia
After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive. -- Arthur Miller
Death puts an end to rivalship and competition. The dead can boast no advantage over us, nor can we triumph over them. -- William Hazlitt
I have learned some things. Modern life is warfare without end: take no prisoners, leave no wounded, eat the dead--that's environmentally sound. -- James Crumley
There's no such thing as a lost cause, or a dead end. Through persistence, attitude, and creativity, there's always an escape route. -- Urijah Faber
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet. Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. -- Zig Ziglar
Battles are never the end of war; for the dead must be buried and the cost of the conflict must be paid. -- James A. Garfield
Everything on earth is a game. A passing thing. We all end up dead. We all end up the same, don't we? -- Pele
Just because you've come to a dead end, it's not time to give up. Find a different route and keep pressing forward. -- Joel Osteen
If things go wrong and you hit a dead end-as you will-it's just life's way of saying it's time to change course -- Oprah Winfrey
The greatest thing about golf, there's no end to it unless you're dead. You just go from here to the Senior Tour. -- Fuzzy Zoeller
Love is blind and little did I know, you were just another dead end road. Paved with pretty lies and broken dreams. -- Julie Roberts
You would do well to know, Marcus, that irritating a better swordsman than yourself is a good way to end up dead. -- Raymond E. Feist
Loving him was like driving a new Maserati down a dead end street; faster than the winds, passionate as sin, ending so suddenly. -- Taylor Swift
Every lie a person tells is an emotional dead end road that puts weight on the heart. Satisfaction is always in the truth. -- Ron Baratono
Science is an intellectual dead end, you know? It's a lot of little guys in tweed suits cutting up frogs on foundation grants. -- Woody Allen
The time for running has come to an end. You tell them white folk in Mississippi that all the scared niggers are dead! -- Stokely Carmichael
I don't care much about politics. That kind of witchcraft I stay away from because people end up dead. I'd rather die for music. -- Cass McCombs
To seek "causes" of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes. -- Jane Jacobs
The Atkins' diet is where you eat bacon for six or seven months...and the end result is that you lose weight. Because you're dead. -- Michael Ian Black
If we thought that instead of 200 Palestinian fatalities, 2,000 dead would put an end to the fighting at a stroke, we would use much more force.... -- Ehud Barak
I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it. -- Plato
I am endeavoring to steer gymnastics out of a dead end that satisfies only a handful of short-sighted individuals with nostalgia for an era gone by. -- Bruno Grandi
The democratic world has come to a dead end; likewise, the communist world has come to a dead end. But the Unification Church is just beginning! -- Sun Myung Moon
My dad was actually against me being a photographer. He thought it was a dead-end job and that you end up doing baby pictures and weddings. -- Rick Smolan
If you don't think you need to develop your personal brand, my advice for you comes in the wisdom of two road signs: STOP; DEAD END. -- Jarod Kintz
I do a lot of things hopin I never had to fit in, so tryin to keep up with my progress is like a dead end. -- Drake
I wondered vaguely if this was when it would end, whether I would pull up tonight's darkness like a quilt and be dead and at peace evermore. -- William Manchester
In science, a path that turns out to be a dead end is very useful because you don't devote resources to focusing on that; you go elsewheres. -- Michael Bloomberg
In exchange for ten years of being on top, I'm gonna end up in prison or I'm gonna end up dead, and there's something fascinating about that. -- Brian Helgeland
Ireland starts for me with the end of The Dead, which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in New Albany, Ind. -- John Jeremiah Sullivan
War is not one-sided. It takes two blades to clash. It matters little who comes out on top, there is still a dead man at the end. -- Mitch Rowland
Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful -- Albert Camus
Ireland starts for me with the end of 'The Dead,' which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in New Albany, Ind. -- John Jeremiah Sullivan
They were connoisseurs of boredom. They savoured the various bouquets of the subtly differentiated boredoms which rose from the long, wasted hours at the dead end of night. -- Angela Carter
A dead end street is a good place to turn around. Can't really fault the logic of that, unless you want to go down the dead end of course! -- Naomi Judd
Typically your work will end up in a museum [after] you're dead. And maybe that's the function of a museum. It's an archive of your work after you're dead. -- Eric Drooker
It is only in God that we discover our origin, our identity, our meaning, our purpose, our significance, and our destiny. Every other path leads to a dead end. -- Rick Warren
i laced my shoes with sorrow and walked a weary road dead end streets don't come undone with double knots wing tipped shoes that walk on air through vacant lots -- Saul Williams
Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It's up to you to decide to stay parked there or to turn around and drive out. -- Cheryl Strayed
Falling in love with a house or a car or a pair of shoes, it was a dead end. You save your love for the things that can love you back. -- David Wong
When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, that's kind of a dead-end road. So I think it's a combination of self-entrapment and entrapment by society. -- K. D. Lang
Kiev's attempts to exert economic pressure on Donbas (region of east Ukraine) and disrupt its daily life only aggravates the situation. This is a dead-end track, fraught with a big catastrophe. -- Vladimir Putin
There are no dead-end jobs. There are no dead-end jobs. There are only dead-end people. Our current social philosophy, and the welfare state apparatus based on it, are creating more dead-end people. -- Thomas Sowell
When we attempt to find meaning in the pursuit of pleasure, the commitment to a job, or through plumbing intellectual depths, we all eventually find in each of these pursuits a dead end. -- Charles R. Swindoll
I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way. -- Viggo Mortensen
After all, how can a mere dragon expect to tell a man like yourself what to do? In fact, everyone should stand in awe of your brilliance of finding the only dead end. - Saphira -- Christopher Paolini

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