Making a company fit to sell may be the only way to ensure you never need a buyer. ~Margaret Heffernan
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We like to think that our parents made a decision to bring us into the world. ~Christopher Eccleston
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I'm terrified of learning lines, and I've always been terrified that I won't learn them. ~Helen Mirren
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I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God. ~Sufi Proverb
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I can't say I'm one way or the other because I've honestly fallen in love with a man and I've honestly fallen in love with a woman. I don't know how you label that, it's just how it is. ~Evan Rachel Wood
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I am getting a little tired of everybody quoting Ronald Reagan. ~Michael Reagan
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The adult looks to deeds, the child to love. ~Indian Proverb
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I always had this energy level that made me want to come to New York. ~Roy Ayers
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Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed, you have to dissolve the self into these larger universal truths, and explore these deeper mysteries. If it's purely autobiographical and ego-driven, it's going to fail. ~Nick Flynn
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To fold the hands in prayer is well, to open them in charity is better. ~French Proverb
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Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Little children, headache; big children, heartache. ~Italian Proverb
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Not until down people sleep best, not until they become old they get wise. ~Chinese Proverb
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He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son. ~John Locke
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A son is a son till he gets him a wife, but a daughter is a daughter the rest of your life. ~Proverb
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I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, "Ow, ow, put it back!" ~Geena Davis
#quotes #geena-davis #humor

How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable product, which is something it was never supposed to be. That's why many people suppose that the better the poet you are the lower your income should be, and that's probably true. ~Robert Bringhurst
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If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of life, as we now understand it, about the importance of microbes. I think he would just beam with joy that many of the thoughts and the glimpses of the majesty of life on Earth that he had during his life, now magnified many times over. ~Sylvia Earle
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Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being. ~Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Winter bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. ~Montenegrin Proverb
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Irony: While we increasingly hold people more responsible if they drink and drive, we hold women less responsible if they drink and have sex. ~Warren Farrell
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I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny that you don't now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand. ~Ronald Reagan
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They speak of my drinking, but never think of my thirst. ~Scottish Proverb
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In running, it doesn't matter how fast or slow you are relative to anyone else. You set your own pace and you measure your own progress. You can't lose this race because you're not running against anyone else. You're only running against yourself, and as long as you are running, you are winning. ~Amby Burfoot
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Do not seek reality, just put an end to opinions. ~Zen Proverb
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