I was, as a kid, really obsessed with reading... that was about as geeky as you could possibly get. ~Junot Diaz
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I have always felt that kids are really smart. ~Michelle Trachtenberg
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What flowers are to gardens, spices to food, gems to a garment, and stars to heaven; such are proverbs interwoven in speech. ~Hebrew Proverb
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Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way. ~Harvey Mackay
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After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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I am too pure for you or anyone. ~Sylvia Plath
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Everything is chance, or nothing is chance. If I believed the first, I would be unable to live on, but I am not yet fully convinced of the second. ~Etty Hillesum
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Keep an eye on the cat and another on the frying pan. ~Proverb
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Everything in moderation. And that includes a couple of beers a day. ~Stephen King
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You can't judge a book by its cover. ~English Proverb
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Better give a penny then lend twenty. ~Italian Proverb
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I've been wearing Wrangler jeans for more than a decade now, all the way back to when I first started playing clubs in my teens in Georgia. ~Jason Aldean
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"Feminist comedy," practically an oxymoron, had a couple of good years after WWII. Chalk it up to the forced female autonomy that occurred during wartime, when Rosie the Riveter went to work in the factories, constructing the Allies' war machines while taking charge of the finances, the home, and the children. ~Grace Slick
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One thing I like about Twitter is that you can hear it from the horse's mouth. ~Big Boi
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The fool speaks, the wise man listens. ~African Proverb
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Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life. ~Matthew Arnold
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Pure water is the world’s first and foremost medicine. ~Slovakian Proverb
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I'm a songwriter first. ~Carole King
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Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking. ~Isabel Allende
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Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it. ~Stephen King
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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. ~French Proverb
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It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. ~Latin Proverb
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Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past. ~Friedrich Schiller
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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 tree never hits an automobile except in self defense. ~American Proverb
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