A doable goal for me is to finish a marathon under four hours. I'm doing all the training, but the hardest part is eating right. ~Sean Astin
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Who brings a tale takes two away. ~Irish Proverb
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Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness. ~Robert Harris
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Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains. ~Libba Bray
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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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I don't know where I come from but I am here now so deal with it. ~Gary Busey
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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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A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom. ~Chinese Proverb
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In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the eight hours when we stop killing each other and gratuitous overeating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die! ~Lloyd Kaufman
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Middle age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, "Why not?" and the other, "Why bother?" ~Sydney J. Harris
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A hungry man is an angry man. ~English Proverb
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A hen is heavy when carried far. ~Irish Proverb
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One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king. ~Abraham Maslow
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Every beginning is weak. ~Irish Proverb
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If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room. ~Bill Laswell
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors. ~Chinese Proverb
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Those who wish to sing, always find a song. ~Swedish Proverb
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives. ~Alan Hirsch
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My real heroes have always been sports-writers. ~Dan Jenkins
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Every seller praises his wares. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family. ~Townsend Harris
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Everyone pushes a falling fence. ~Chinese Proverb
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A strange, terrific force unlike anything I've ever experienced is sprouting in my heart, taking root there, growing. Shut up behind my rib cage, my warm heart expands and contracts independent of my will, over and over. ~Haruki Murakami
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Children are poor men's riches. ~English Proverb
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