Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can. ~George E. Allen
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And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing. ~Emily Watson
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The desert tells a different story every time one ventures on it. ~Robert Edison Fulton
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A world of few choices, whether in jeans or mates, is a world in which individual differences become sources of alienation, unhappiness, even self-loathing. If no jeans fit, you'll feel uncomfortable or inferior. If no housing developments reflect your taste for unique architecture, you'll write screeds against philistine mass culture. ~Virginia Postrel
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It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life. ~Adam Brody
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Not until down people sleep best, not until they become old they get wise. ~Chinese Proverb
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We grow too soon old and too late smart. ~Dutch Proverb
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Proverbs are the draft horses of wisdom. ~Canadian Proverb
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One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints. ~Proverb
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A closed mouth catches no flies. ~Italian Proverb
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Two guests cannot be entertained satisfactorily at the same time. ~African Proverb
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Everything is chance, or nothing is chance. If I believed the first, I would be unable to live on, but I am not yet fully convinced of the second. ~Etty Hillesum
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The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor. ~Chinese Proverb
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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow. ~English Proverb
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One man's trash is another man's treasure. ~English Proverb
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A guy who is crazily, madly in love with you. A guy who sees how incredible and amazing you are, even though you're not the cheerleader or even close to the prettiest girl in the school. A guy who thinks you're beautiful, just the way you are. ~Candace Bushnell
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If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process. ~Abdallah II of Jordan
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Death is just life's next big adventure. ~J. K. Rowling
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Let me think about the people I care about... ~Ze Frank
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Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb
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I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface ~Christian Slater
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When you throw dirt, you lose ground. ~Texan Proverb
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The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws. ~Ernest Holmes
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Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be. ~Colum McCann
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The maxims of men disclose their hearts. ~French Proverb
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