Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. ~David Ives
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What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth. ~Jewish Proverb
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Do not let yesterday use up too much of today. ~Native American Proverb
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If you believe everything you read, better not read. ~Japanese Proverb
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To set up what you like against what you do not like, this is the disease of the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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The basic philosophy of stoicism is that you have nothing real external to your own consciousness, that the only thing real is in fact your consciousness. ~Roger Avary
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Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary. ~Chinese Proverb
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Everyone I know who is having success in film right now is there because of persistence. ~Jay Duplass
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A healthy man is a successful man. ~French Proverb
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Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions because it loves moderation, delights in compromise an is most careful to avoid anger. ~Alexis de Tocqueville
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The family is the first economy. If the family breaks down, well, government gets bigger because of the consequences of family breakdown. We see in the neighborhoods where there are no marriages and there are no two-parent families. ~Rick Santorum
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Be a master of the mind,not mastered by the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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There is no safe political refuge for those afraid to take responsibility for their own lives. ~James Bovard
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A clear conscience is a soft pillow. ~German Proverb
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She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable. ~Louisa May Alcott
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God heals, and the physician takes the fee. ~French Proverb
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No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see. ~Martin Amis
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I'm always sort of anticipating life being difficult, but on a basic level, that's sort of on the surface, on a basic level, I'm optimistic in the sense that I think it's all going to be alright in the end. ~Emily Mortimer
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Luckily, the public school system that I was in had a really great drama program, so I plunged into that. It really sort of kept me afloat because I was bored in school. ~Allison Scagliotti
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If you are attached to anything, you surely will go far astray. ~Zen Proverb
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Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly. ~Proverb
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Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic member has to if he would recover. The others must be convinced of his new status beyond the shadow of a doubt. Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker. ~William Griffith Wilson
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We need better neighbors, neighbors that care about the schools in their neighborhood, whether they have kids in them or not, because they know that the health and vitality of that neighborhood depends on it. ~Thomas Friedman
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Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn't exist. We were not part of any stories. ~Salma Hayek
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I started mountain-bike riding two years ago, which is much better than riding a stationary bike in the gym. Mountain biking is a total body workout. ~Samantha Stosur
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