Smoke your pipe and be silent; there is only wind and smoke in the world. ~Irish Proverb
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I had somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not something you enjoyed. ~Alan Bennett
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I am getting a little tired of everybody quoting Ronald Reagan. ~Michael Reagan
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A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity. ~Yiddish Proverb
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It is better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand days as lamb. ~Roman Proverb
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When you are starting out as an actor people are very interested in who you are because they want to know where they can put you. And quite often, and we're all guilty of this is our lives, we judge very quickly and we pigeon-hole people very quickly based on how they look and how they talk and how they dress and we think: "Oh yeah, we know who you are." ~Tom Hiddleston
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If you chase two rabbits, you catch none. ~Confucius
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A dimple on the chin, the devil within. ~Gaelic Proverb
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I guess you can stay sort of true to the story; you don't have to artificially bring the character back from whatever doom you've designed for them, you can tell the story, I suppose, honestly. ~Garth Ennis
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A good husband is healthy and absent. ~Japanese Proverb
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It is no use to wait for your ship to come in unless you have sent one out. ~Belgian Proverb
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We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the budget so into surplus. ~John Spratt
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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 have my own voice and can focus only on that. I know what I like; I find my inspirations in so many other places than just online and bring that into my work. ~Hanneli Mustaparta
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Last ship, best ship. ~English Proverb
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Do bad and remember, do good and forget. ~Algerian Proverb
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Silence is also speech. ~Proverb
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I'm not married, and I don't have any kids, so sometimes I envy that end of things when I see a family vacation or people at the beach with their kids or at sporting events with their kids; you wonder, "Is that a part of your life that you want to go into?" ~Kevin Connolly
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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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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking. ~Chinese Proverb
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We cannot come to honour under coverlet. ~George Herbert
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Procrastination is the thief of time; year after year it steals, till all are fled, and to the mercies of a moment leaves the vast concerns of an eternal state. At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; at fifty chides his infamous delay, pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; in all the magnanimity of thought, resolves, and re-resolves, then dies the same. ~Edward Young
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As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself. ~Zen Proverb
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Do not marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. ~Scottish Proverb
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