George Harrison (1943–2001)

Born: February 25, 1943 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
Died: November 29, 2001 (age 58) in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA

[on the reasons why he became a vegetarian] People are simply screwing up when they go out and buy beefsteak, which is killing them with cancer and heart troubles. The stuff costs a fortune, too. You could feed a thousand people with lentil soup for the cost of half a dozen filets.

It is better to be an outspoken atheist than a hypocrite.

[in 1997, about his battle with throat cancer] I got it purely from smoking. Luckily, they found that this nodule was more of a warning than anything else. I’m not going to die on you folks just yet. Life is like a raindrop on a lotus leaf. Everybody realizes that you are either a very lucky person or you’re not.

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