I look at couples in the street who are in their sixties and have been together for 40 years, and they're my idols. That's Ice and me for sure. ~Coco Austin
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I swear if I had to do this over again, I would just do the paintings and never show them. ~Cy Twombly
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I was sitting in the back room by myself when someone came in and said, "Mr. Zimmer, I have to take you down to the make up room." I told them that if anyone can help this face they deserve a bonus. ~Don Zimmer
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The trauma said. Don't write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones. ~Andrea Gibson
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Out of the choked Devonian waters emerged sight and sound and the music that rolls invisible through the composer's brain. They are there still in the ooze along the tideline, though no one notices. The world is fixed, we say, fish in the sea, birds in the air. But in the mangrove swamps by the Niger, fish climb trees and ogle uneasy naturalists who try unsuccessfully to chase them back to the water. There are things still coming ashore. ~Loren Eiseley
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The desert tells a different story every time one ventures on it. ~Robert Edison Fulton
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Do not look for evil. Look for the goodness of God all around you. As you look for signs of His presence, many more opportunities will occur for you to bless people and share God's true nature. ~Graham Cooke
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I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be an absolute catastrophe. I would certainly be interested in deserving it, but to receive it would be terrible. It would just complicate even more the problems of fame. The only thing I really regret in life is not having a daughter. ~Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade. ~English Proverb
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Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as miracles. But the point of the title lies in the paradox of finding so many wonderful things subservient to the rule of law. ~Elisha Gray
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Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly. ~Proverb
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Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore. ~Hindu Proverb
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I keep my house tidy, because then I can think clearly. I feel the same about myself. Presenting yourself well is a working-class thing; my dad was a printer, but he wore a tie most days. The ungroomed look belongs more to the middle classes. ~Gary Kemp
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No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow. ~Proverb
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You can't prevent birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. ~Chinese proverb
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The excess of virtue is a vice. ~Greek Proverb
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The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong. ~Georges Bidault
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There is nothing Dutch about my architecture. ~Rem Koolhaas
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Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things. ~Sam Shoemaker
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Silence is medication for sorrow. ~Arabic Proverb
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Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. ~Swedish Proverb
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Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old, yours will be new. ~Spanish Proverb
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All things grow with time, except grief. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The world is lousy with Arab princes. And if we could have got Osama bin Laden, and saved at some point down the road 3,000 American lives, a few less Arab princes would have been okay in my book. ~Michael Scheuer
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The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man. ~Howard Staunton
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