There is a theory that creativity arises when individuals are out of sync with their environment. To put it simply, people who fit in with their communities have insufficient motivation to risk their psyches in creating something truly new, while those who are out of sync are driven by the constant need to prove their worth. ~Gary Taubes
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I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me. ~Grandma Moses
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The most dangerous food is wedding cake. ~American Proverb
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A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners. ~Irish 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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I take pride in the fact that a lot of little kids dig what I do. ~John Cena
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An old man in love is like a flower in winter. ~Portuguese Proverb
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth. (Vino Veritas) ~Pliny the Elder
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Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice. ~Tom Robbins
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The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong. ~Georges Bidault
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What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure. ~Sherwood Anderson
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You have got to have a problem that you want to solve, a wrong that you want to right. ~Steve Jobs
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If you don't want anyone to find out, don't do it. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you want something done well, do it yourself. ~English Proverb
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I don't buy trends, because the pieces don't last and I wind up never wearing them. That's why I like to shop with my children; they'll always tell me the truth. ~Danielle Steel
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I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault. ~Tanith Lee
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I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least to some degree. ~Caroline Knapp
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There's no "brothers" when it comes to white people. We are just complete individuals. We don't care about each other. He's not my brother; my brother lives in Ohio; I don't know that guy. ~Bill Burr
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In Los Angeles, the gang capital of the world, we have 1,100 gangs and 120,000 gang members so it is a daunting, complex social dilemma. ~Greg Boyle
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I have total respect for anyone who discovers a band like Snow Patrol. I would be hopeless at signing a rock band, or anything alternative, cause I don't know what that audience are into and I don't particularly like that kind of music. ~Simon Cowell
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Lead me, Zeus, and you, Fate, wherever you have assigned me. I shall follow without hesitation; but even if I am disobedient and do not wish to, I shall follow no less surely. ~Cleanthes
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All things desirable to men are contained in the Bible. ~Abraham Lincoln
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The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy. ~William Falconer
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I have a terrific marriage, but unlike a lot of relationships where they ebb and flow, no matter what happens you fall deeper and deeper in love every day. It's kind of the best thing that can happen to you. It's thrilling. ~Hugh Jackman
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You can trust the promise of this opening. Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning. That is at one with your life's desire. ~John O'Donohue
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