Animals are the best actors. They never lie, they're always present, and they listen. That's a lot more than a lot of actors can say for themselves. ~Graham Phillips
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They say I tried to hurt my nurse. I tell them they tried to hurt me first. ~CJ Roberts
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In life, sometimes everything falls into place, and sometimes everything just falls to pieces. The key is to begin creating with these fallen pieces. By improvising, you will create something magical that might be the best thing you have ever accomplished. ~Tori Amos
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When people don't like themselves very much, they have to make up for it. The classic bully was actually a victim first. ~Tom Hiddleston
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It's hard to imagine that our love is a story with an end. But you know, at least I'm getting some really good songs out of it ~Miley Cyrus
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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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I've done a lot of Shakespeare as a young man; I was involved with Shakespeare and Company. ~Courtney B. Vance
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Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved. ~Jan Karon
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Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive. ~Robert Kiyosaki
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Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone. ~Martha Nibley Beck
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In very big companies, you find less entrepreneurialism than you really want to see. Success is defined as "don't make a mistake." And you get to be the C.E.O. by outlasting everybody else, then you're there for five or six years, and you want to get your bonus on the way out. ~Bernard L. Schwartz
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead. ~V. S. Naipaul
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God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. ~Jewish Proverb
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The most important of the Lord's work you will ever do will be the work you do within the walls of your own home. ~Harold B. Lee
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We have different forms assigned to us in the school of life, different gifts imparted. All is not attractive that is good. Iron is useful, though it does not sparkle like the diamond. Gold has not the fragrance of a flower. So different persons have various modes of excellence, and we must have an eye to all. ~William Wilberforce
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When the legs go, the heart soon follows ~John Wooden
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Interesting things always come from being really exhausted and really sick. ~Adam Driver
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Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth. ~John Henrik Clarke
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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go. ~Galileo Galilei
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It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable. ~Bernard of Clairvaux
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I love luxury, I love the high life, and I have to foot the bills. I have received practically nothing from my marriages and relationships. ~Britt Ekland
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I have accepted fear as a part of life; specifically the fear of change. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. ~Erica Jong
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But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own. ~Peter Shaffer
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I don't pay a lot of attention, frankly, to what Barack Obama says. ~Dick Cheney
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