Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her. ~Jean-Michel Basquiat
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Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river. ~Malagasy Proverb
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The necessity for "professionals" in the entertainment industry is being constantly challenged. ~Jason Alexander
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In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight. ~Bobby Rahal
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Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom. ~Chinese Proverb
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I'm 31 now. I think I'm beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means. ~Adam Sandler
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If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot. ~Korean Proverb
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I did my homework and didn't go out much, and had a very highly developed kitsch fantasy life where I dreamed of being a dancing girl. ~Emily Mortimer
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Even if you're not going anywhere, do not get in the way. ~Jose Bergamin
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A silent mouth is melodious. ~Irish Proverb
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Poverty and anger do not agree. ~Arabic Proverb
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Anger with our friend, rather than constant friendship with our enemy. ~Arabic Proverb
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No man is quick enough to enjoy life to the full. ~Spanish Proverb
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A silent mouth is sweet to hear. ~Irish Proverb
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The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places, but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. ~J.R.R. Tolkien
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It blows a snowing gale in the winter of the year; The boats are on the sea and the crews are on the pier. The needle of the vane, it is veering to and fro. A flash of sun is on the veering of the vane. Autumn leaves and rain. The passion of the gale. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. ~Norman Vincent Peale
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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ~Elizabeth Hardwick
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Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day. ~German Proverb
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I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They both made sense to me. ~Patti Smith
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Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they only have themselves to think of, so every wish and every notion assume importance; every pleasure is tasted to the full, but also every sorrow, and many who find that their wishes cannot be fulfilled, immediately put an end to their lives. ~Hermann Hesse
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Love is when you take away the feeling, the passion, the romance and you find out, you still care for the person.
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I was born full grown in the middle of a hurricane and an earthquake on 10 September 1954, 12.52 P.M. When I found out that I had missed lunch, I gave such a shout that the Earth stopped and spun backwards two days. That's why I celebrate my birthday on 8 September. ~Jon Scieszka
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It was as if Snape had started handing out sweets. ~J. K. Rowling
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Instead of complaining that the rosebush is full of thorns, be happy that the thorn bush has roses. ~Proverb
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