I don't know if people realize how hard I work, because sometimes people ask me for my secret. The truth is that I don't have any secrets apart from the fact that I've been directing theater and film for twenty years and trying at every stage to make my work better. ~Lucy Walker
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on. ~French Proverb
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Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men. ~Chinese Proverb
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A half truth is a whole lie. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A friend's eye is a good mirror. ~Irish Proverb
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Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Once I began doing stand-up, I didn't get a kick out of the applause or being the centre of attention; but I did get a kick out of the jigsaw puzzle aspect of it, searching for the right bit, adding another few pieces each night until the bigger picture appears. That's the appeal: the challenge of it. ~Stephen Merchant
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I don't use Twitter. I'm a serious person. ~Paolo Sorrentino
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A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder. ~John D. Rockefeller
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Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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A good husband is healthy and absent. ~Japanese Proverb
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In a game like football, where you have very little time to decide what you are going to do, you have to react almost instinctively, naturally. ~Vince Lombardi
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Coffee should be: black as hell, strong as death, sweet as love. ~Turkish Proverb
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Truth is time's daughter. ~Spanish Proverb
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The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were; the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable. ~Michel de Montaigne
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A bad cause requires many words. ~German Proverb
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Every proverb speaketh sooth; dreams and omens mask the truth. ~Welsh Proverb
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You must neither strive for truth nor seek to lose your illusions. ~Zen Proverb
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What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth. ~Jewish Proverb
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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. ~Slovenian Proverb
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One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king. ~Abraham Maslow
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Truth becomes disagreeable to the fool only. ~Arabic Proverb
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There is nothing Dutch about my architecture. ~Rem Koolhaas
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Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. ~Chinese Proverb
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Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies. ~Spanish Proverb
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