Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb
#proverbs #japanese-proverbs #perseverance

To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
#quotes #robert-louis-stevenson #life #age

It's American Alternative radio stations that bug me. We're considered Alternative, but don't expect us to be played next to Blink 182 and Offspring. We're hardly of that generation. ~Thurston Moore
#quotes #thurston-moore #radio

The teeth are smiling, but is the heart? ~African Proverb
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In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places, that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process. ~John Lewis
#quotes #john-lewis #black #elections #ohio

I don't trust a lot of journalists. ~Calvin Klein
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If you're serious, you really understand that it's important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you're the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you're funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity. ~Maya Angelou
#quotes #maya-angelou #humor #laughing

Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't; but we wear it all the same. ~Barbara Kingsolver
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A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. ~Spanish Proverb
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A thief believes everybody steals. ~Proverb
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need. ~Gaston Bachelard
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James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond. ~Ken Follett
#quotes #ken-follett #james-bond #eating

What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy. ~Tom Robbins
#quotes #tom-robbins #critic #writing

Eat little, sleep sound. ~Iranian Proverb
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I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately. ~Aaron Taylor Johnson
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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverbs #women #age

I love America and I hate it. I'm torn between the two. I have two conflicting visions of America. One is a kind of dream landscape and the other is a kind of black comedy. ~Bono
#quotes #bono #united-states

A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb
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I am "too fiery," yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than soften away anything. ~Margaret Fuller
#quotes #margaret-fuller #heart #wish

Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks. ~Samuel P. Huntington
#quotes #samuel-p-huntington #united-states #black

I believe babies are born as innovative personalities. But our social processes work to stamp out exploration and questioning. ~Jay Wright Forrester
#quotes #jay-wright-forrester #children #society #education

I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment. ~Maria Monk
#quotes #maria-monk #christianity #power

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. ~Louis D. Brandeis
#quotes #louis-d-brandeis #free-speech

Patty Griffin is iconic, and there's no other word to really describe her. She is iconic for a lot of people; not only for me but for a lot of fans. Her voice is one of a kind, and she's such an important figure in the American music scene. ~Dierks Bentley
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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory. ~William Hazlitt
#quotes #william-hazlitt #faith #success