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I started off writing TV adverts. I saw those as rehearsals for a feature film. ~Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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So that the new generation that will be born can enjoy happiness. To pay the cost we will have to shoulder corpses and cross a river of blood. ~Hiromu Arakawa
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Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London. ~Kenneth Robert Livingstone
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The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right. ~Gene Weingarten
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One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it's what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance. ~Maya Angelou
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Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill. ~Danish Proverb
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proverbiosIn 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
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It was as if Snape had started handing out sweets. ~J. K. Rowling
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives. ~Alan Hirsch
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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue. ~German Proverb
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I don't walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. It's worse than bleak, it's apocalyptic. ~Mark Leyner
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It's hard to say that my twenties were the most miserable time in my life or that my first wife drove me crazy or that I hated the job that I had. You can say all of those things. But for the most part, people manage to have a good time when they're that age. ~Frank Stella
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The rock-star thing became very destructive, like, wow. I didn't know what I was doing. I just kind of became that thing. The hair, that rock-star kind of lifestyle, just living a dream. It kind of took over. It started out very innocent and then I turned into a cartoon character. And I started to feel like a cartoon character. ~Pamela Anderson
#quotes #pamela-anderson #rock-star #popularity
The starting point of my career in money management in 1973-74 was the time of the only true bear market any living non-Japanese investor has seen in major markets. Equities, real estate, you name it, everyone got run over. ~Paul Singer
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You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence. ~William J. H. Boetcker
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I don't believe in the clash of cultures. The culture is one. The culture is a ring off the same chain. Picasso was very much influenced by the African arts, and he influenced a whole other generation of artists. So everything influences everything. ~Marjane Satrapi
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Musically, I have more things in common with tons of bands that have no female members. ~St. Vincent
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The sermon is now the true poppy of literature. ~David Swing
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No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow. ~Proverb
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What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat? ~Friedrich Nietzsche
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Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese. ~Zen Proverb
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She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable. ~Louisa May Alcott
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I vote in every general election, but I'm not a party member or an ideologue. I've never told anyone who I've voted for. ~Brian Lamb
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So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor. ~Desmond Dekker
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